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Autumnal pauses for thought. PHD

For the past few years I have largely utilized two photographic approaches in my close-up work employing lenses at the extreme ends of the focal length  range. On the one hand there is the  capacity of a long-focus macro (the … Continue reading

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A Little Inspiration. CB

Although this video of Michael “Nick” Nichols setting up a camera trap for tigers is from a few years ago, I was reminded while watching it of just how much work goes into a shot sometimes and the joy that … Continue reading

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Pure inspiration – the work of a master. PHD

Intimate Portraits of the Colorado Plateau by Guy Tal One of the things I do when returning to the UK is make a quick visual survey of a newsagent’s magazine rack in the forlorn hope that there might be something … Continue reading

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A foreigner in two lands. PHD

I realised a few days ago that I had not written a blog entry for a while because of the visit to the UK to meet new grand daughter Orlaith and spend time with her 20 month old sister Tallulah…who … Continue reading

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An Italian Christmas Carol…without too many ghosts. PHD

For all too few years of my life I was on the Christmas list of an incredible human being – a gay, Jewish, atheist New Yorker (clearly, somebody going for all the Boy Scout Badges) who, as an antidote to … Continue reading

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Inspiration. NB.

I like to call myself a writer, as well as a photographer. And having now published about half a million words of articles and books, I feel more comfortable making that claim than I did 10 years ago. But, of … Continue reading

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Recurring themes. AP

It is always a benefit when engaged as we are in a creative business, to have honest and occasionally critical feedback of our work. Such critiqueing is for me at least invariably within the (assumed) remit of my wife Claire who … Continue reading

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Tales from a honeypot – another one! AP.

In the light of Niall’s recent post on the ‘Vivaldi-isation’ I have, due to its topical nature, brought forward a post from one such honeypot site, Gigrin farm in Mid Wales. For those of you with suspicious minds, no this … Continue reading

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Book Offer – Photographing Plants & Flowers by Paul Harcourt Davies

I’ve just come back from a 300m amble down our track to where our large letter box sits. where I found a letter from Anova books who handle one of my titles. There is an offer of limited surplus stock … Continue reading

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Inspiration or plagiarism? AP.

As an enthusiastic and passionate wildlife photographer it is often the case that if I am not actually outside taking images, or stuck at my computer processing them, there is a good chance that I will be looking at the … Continue reading

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