Ok I’ve had a quick try of Lightroom 5 beta. LOVING the straightening tool! A few observations on a quick 10 minute play in the newly released public beta of Lightroom 5… 1. As an owner of the Nikkor 16-35 f4 lens, this lens suffers from some hefty curvature at 16mm so the new straightening [...]
Google releases repackaged NIK software, so does that mean its staying? Today Google announced the “NIK Collection by Google”, basically the 6 separate photographic processing plugins made originally NIK Software repackaged as one and given a much more affordable price point – $149 (down from $500 for the same full collection previously). Firstly this [...]
Famous nature reserve disturbed by a gate crasher in early hours of 16th March 2013 – Timber carrying ship runs aground on the Farne Islands My plans for a Saturday afternoon changed suddenly when I read a tweet from friend and operator of Serenity Boat Tours, Andrew Douglas. He posted this… NEWS JUST IN…..80mtr boat [...]
Virtual Photo Walks featured on the US news show NBC Nightly News A project that I was around at its inception has yet again had some cool exposure in the US media after being featured on the evening news show NBC Nightly News on the 11th of March. Virtual Photo Walks, founded by Canadian Commercial Photographer John [...]
FREE Image of Beadnell Harbour to Download Do you want to own an image of mine but not fancy the idea of spending £40 on a print? Today I have the answer… I am releasing this black and white long exposure image of Beadnell Harbour here in Northumberland, England for FREE. You can do [...]
I am happy to announce that my image “Let Fly the Wild Horses” has been selected to be included in this charity project arranged by the photography community on the social media network Google+. This years partner is the Kilgoris Project. Here is a video to explain it all. Pre ordering is open for [...]
Yesterday Instagram, the popular mobile photography social media app, released their new Terms of Service to take effect on the 16th January 2013. Immediately there were cries of “account deletion” as news and analysis of the the new terms spread throughout photographic and social media communities. The section of the new Instagram Terms of Service that seems [...]
Kelso Races Ladies Day Photography At the end of May I was kindly asked back by Kelso Racecourse to take atmosphere shots around the course of the public areas and those who attended in their throngs on Ladies Day, on what feels like the last sunny day we had here this summer… The following links [...]
Ok so I haven’t been on G+ exactly a year yet but it was July 8th when I finally bagged myself an invite after watching from outside for nearly 2 weeks, desperate to get in. My 1st (not so wise) words here were… Ok so I got in… Now what? Now What?!… Wow what a [...]
I’m not one to obsess over numbers, I’d rather concentrate on finding friends, networking with and encouraging others on Google+, and sharing my work, but a couple of days ago I passed the milestone of being circled 20,000 times over on Google+! Incredible! That’s like 310 times more people that live in my village or [...]