A hazy morning at St. Mary’s Lighthouse
With a misty morning here on the North East coast today, it feels like as good a time as any to share this image from June of a hazy morning out near St. Mary’s Lighthouse.I had driven up past St. ...
Journal
A photography outing!
For the first time in quite a while, I get out for a day’s dedicated photography
SquareHood lens hoods for Fujifilm X100 and XF 27/2.8
A few months ago, I came across a couple of images of Fujifilm X100s with lovely square lens hoods, from the appropriately named SquareHood in Sweden.Lens hoods are important to me. I’m not the kin...
Guarding the beach at Newquay
I’ve had this image ready, waiting to share for a couple of years now and it has stayed a favourite in my library so it seems about time to put it out there.As with my other recently-shared image o...
2020 goals mid-year check-in
At the start of the year, I set some basic goals. How am I doing?
Art inspiration: reproducing a composition
An art print hanging on our wall inspired me to see how closely I could reproduce the composition in real life
Photography
Dropping the JPEG from JPEG+RAW
For about as long as I’ve used Fujifilm cameras, I’ve almost always shot in JPEG+RAW mode: raw to have the most leeway in post-processing and JPEG to get those lovely ready-made Fujifilm film simul...
Beach time
After a week of heavy rain, we’re briefly back to bright sunshine here in the North East of England, so I thought I’d share an image from the previous heatwave at the end of May.I took the kids ove...
Watch your coverage
When taking multiple frames to stitch into a panorama, it’s easy to miss some needed coverage at the corners
The Everyday Messenger
A good-looking, functional messenger bag at home with your camera gear or even as a nappy bag