Garden and Landscape photography is something I’ve not talked about for a while, but this is one of the photography disciplines I offer. I work with garden designers, landscapers, landowners and venues to provide them with images that can be used in brochures, websites and PR coverage in magazines. Therefore it’s important that I understand the brief before photographing - I need to know [ read more ]
This month on the 21st it is World Entrepreneurs’ Day. The word entrepreneur has a variety of definitions to many people; in fact I think that probably we all have our own version of what the word means. For me, I’d say my quick definition is: it is doing what I want, when I want. Also, in my mind, being an entrepreneur is not [ read more ]
The phone takes fantastic photos, so why would I spend money for my business by engaging a professional photographer? Well, the phone may take amazing photos, but they will only take the photo that you set up. By this, I mean, your equipment might be perfect, but have you got a good ‘eye’? Just because you’ve got a great camera doesn’t automatically mean you’ll [ read more ]
What is World Oceans Day? It’s an international day that takes place annually. Originally proposed by Canada’s International Centre for Ocean Development and Ocean Institute of Canada at the Earth Summit in 1992. The Ocean Project began global coordination of the day in 2002, and the day was officially recognised by the UN in 2008. The day is a celebration of the ocean and [ read more ]
As this month is National Walking Month, I thought I’d share with you how much walking I do when I’m out and about photographing, either for myself or for business. If you enjoy photographing the great outdoors, you often have to walk quite a way to get images that are free of other people, cars, buildings etc so that you have a ‘clean’ image [ read more ]
We are a nation of pet lovers and just like we enjoy having photos of our human family around the house, most pet owners also like to have images of their pet family. This month is National Pets Month, so the perfect time to talk about photographing animals. As a photographer, working with animals comes with their own challenges. They are incredibly unpredictable. Most [ read more ]
Spring is a lovely time to be photographing the great outdoors, as plants are beginning to spring back into life. You can capture images of buds turning into flowers such as snowdrops, crocus, daffodils; trees with new leaf growth or buds -there is plenty around to photograph. 5 ideas for using Spring photos in your business in Spring? 1. Spring-clean your stock photos, and [ read more ]
Earlier this month, I talked about where my love of photography came from and evolved during my teenage years. Well, when I left school I had no particular career in mind, and initially found a job manufacturing printed circuit boards. One of the aspects of my job when working in the quality department was to take photos of micro sections of the boards. We [ read more ]
February is the month of ‘love’ and for many that’s all about romance yet ‘love can take many forms and one of the loves of my life is photography (unsurprisingly). I thought I’d talk about how I got into photography and how my love for it grew. My introduction to photography As a young child, I saw my dad taking photographs with his camera [ read more ]
I thought I’d start the new year by sharing another of my photographic passions – capturing different subjects at night with slow shutter speeds, which is great fun. What do you need to think about when photographing night shots? You need to use a tripod, because if you get a coughing fit or sneeze, or make any real movement, it will upset your equilibrium [ read more ]
