It is a good job that nature photographers are such patient people: I can now, two and a half months late, offer my new book and DVD together. If you haven’t already given up in despair, you can order here for GBP 15.99 which includes UK p&p. Overseas orders: please email me – books@niallbenvie.com for [...]
ANOTHER workshop? Seems like everyone is providing them these days, often people who were joining workshops themselves just a couple of years ago. Still, in a business with no entry qualifications or independent quality grading it isn’t surprising that everyone AND his dog is offering a workshop. So, just how are you to decide which [...]
Time for a moan – and a note of caution to anyone hoping to make money from books. In a word, Amazon. I had this naive idea that I would buy books from my publisher at 50% discount then sell them for a bit of a profit, attracting buyers with the extra lure of the DVD [...]
Will the iPad do for independent writers and photographers what the iPod has done for some indie music producers? Here are some musings from my latest column in Outdoor Photography. Returns from agents may be low but perhaps a whole new avenue for selling our creative work is about to open up.
Progress? Well, it’s actually at the printers in HK now, for delivery in early June. It was a struggle to get it as I wanted it to look (note my prophetic post about designers, written weeks before I saw the first pages) but it’s looking good now.
Since I am on a no-royalties deal with this [...]
(Niall’s picture, as it happens)
Aberdeen-based press photographer, Raymond Besant, shares the hope of many of finding a niche as a full time wildlife photographer and film-maker. But rather than the conventional route of writing to magazines he has gone straight in at the deep end, shot a story about fulmars on Orkney and on the [...]
All photos in this post © Lars Andreas Dybvik
A few years ago, when I spoke to the Naturfoto group in Trondheim, I met a young photographer called Lars Andreas Dybvik. Since then I’ve been intrigued by his novel take on familiar Scandinavian topics (see below) and was rather flattered when he began to run with [...]
Well, it’s almost over. My new book, Outdoor Photography Masterclass, is written, has had its first edit and is now being read and having the picture selection done. I’m not allowed to talk about its unique structure or exact content yet but there is a good mix of very practical information with what I hope [...]