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Every year around the end of June, I like to attend a festival known as Sheffield Steam Fair and take along a camera. I can't quite work out how or why I'm interested in this sort…

I just got back from a long weekend on the Norfolk and Suffolk coast of England. In between fulfilling my family obligations, I managed to escape to the beach with a camera and tr…

At this time of year my normal style of photography is curtailed by the very late light nights where dark doesn't arrive soon enough. And when I do stay up late to take advantage …

Having decided to try and make a weekly post on Hive of my week's efforts with a camera, this is the next instalment, Week #4. Moving from dark, early nights, here in the UK the c…

Sometimes when you're messing with Photoshop on a lazy Sunday afternoon, you stumble across an image which looked great in colour but suddenly much more dramatic in black and white…

Having decided to try and make a weekly post on Hive of my week's efforts with a camera, this is the next instalment, Week #3. I regularly keep an eye open on the Aurora Borealis …

Hi, Its been a while since I've posted on this platform, life kinda happened (Deaths and divorce, and other difficult things), but I thought now might be a good time to start post…

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Having decided to try and make a weekly post on Hive of my week's efforts with a camera, this is the next instalment, Week #2 I posted one of the photos below to a.n.other social …

Lately I find that when out shooting images in one style or another, my quantity of photos taken are fewer than they used to be. The old saying goes quality over quantity seems to…

Contrary to popular belief, I do sometimes shoot photographs in daylight. Historically, I have been drawn to shooting images at night with lightpainting and landscapes in the dark…

<div class="pull-left"> <h2>Hello HIVEs! </h2> <div class="text-justify"> As I announced in my last post, today is not about light painting, or is it? At least I'm not actively p…

Here in the UK, we've had a few clear nights recently. Great for me and my current obsession with star trail photography and anything landscape related at night. Last night's cle…

The skies were forecast clear and the internet in my part of the world was buzzing with chat about possible Aurora Borealis activity. So it was a no brainer that I needed to take …

I've not posted much lately to Hive and indeed not shot much in the way of images for a while. For the last few weeks, I've looked out of my window and felt depressed daily by the…

Every now and then I have to travel to London to see clients. I'll be honest and say I try to avoid it like the plague. It's literally like visiting another country these days ev…

Occasionally I watch YouTube videos and see a location I simply MUST shoot. The One Mile Telescope near Cambridge in England is one such place. The telescope is unused or abandon…

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2024 has been a year where I've noticed the prevalence of AI photo manipulation becoming intrusive in to my preferred art form, lightpainting photography. I specialise in creating…

This is a bit of an unusual post to Hive for me and the first time in ages since I posted any black and whites images. Today we took a road trip to Birmingham in the UK to photogr…