Empty streets and empty parks. Images from daily exercise under lockdown.
Covid Walking
The Struggles of a Dog-walking Photographer
A great time to take photographs is during my two or three daily dog walks. We normally wander around some of the local parks - as I've posted about previously - and today I had the opportunity to test out my new Fuji X-T3 and the 23mm F2 lens. I decided to buy the X-T3…
Photographing the morning walk
Each day - at least two or three times - we take our dogs for a walk. I'll always have my iPhone with me and I've taken many shots with that. The iPhone might not be a 'proper' camera in some people's eyes, but with a bit of simple editing in something like Snapseed it…
Goodbye through photographs
I am writing this about 3,000 miles from home. I live now just outside Toronto, Canada but I was brought up in an area of North West England just north of Manchester. I went to school in Bury and for most of my life I have held an association with the Bury area. My parents…
Business Travel in photographs
I don't know if this applies to everyone, but I wonder if there's a time in every photographer's life where we start to look for projects and not just images. I hope it means that from the perspective of our own creative journey we've progressed beyond the point where we concern ourselves with f-stop, shutter…
Photography mini-project – Waiting for a gardener
Quick posting this time, not an essay. I recently went home to England for a week to visit my father who is now in a nursing home and, to be honest, not likely to come out again. There's a lot of stuff I could write about Dad, about his career, his personality, how he and…
In Praise of Nikon Picture Control
I confess, I rarely read my camera manuals unless there's something specific I need to know. For instance, I knew that you could change the default output picture style on a Nikon DSLR - everyone knows that, right? - and I knew that you could adjust those default styles. But then I had never taken…
