So there’s been a recent run of various companies announcing new features, new layouts etc. Well Yahoo! and Flickr have jumped on the bandwagon and rolled out their brand new interface today. Today Flickr debuted a new fresh improved look and first impressions are damn good! (though it has been desperately needed for years!) So yeah, I [...]
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 [...]
The Farne Islands are one of the draws to the North East of England and Northumberland in particular for Bird enthusiasts, wildlife photographers and maybe the odd person interested in St. Cuthbert and his time spent on Inner Farne. Life on the islands kicks into gear in late March when they serve as breeding grounds [...]
Starting today I am heavily discounting brand new print releases for a period of 3 days following the launch of each new print. Quite simply, when I release a print it will be found in this Discount Gallery for 3 days or until the discount offer code has been used 10 times, whichever is first. [...]
Sun Halo over the beach at Foxton I haven’t done one of these for awhile and as someone on Facebook (follow me there) mentioned that they’d be interested to see a before version, here’s you chance to see how far a simple correction can take an image. Taken on the Northumberland beach near Alnmouth Golf [...]
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 [...]
On March 13th 2013 the skies cleared over Northumberland for a time and a fairly easily locatable PanSTARRS comet was on show for those with some magnification. PanSTARRS Comet (also known as c/2011 L4) is currently gracing our skies, though tricky to spot using the naked eye. On the evening of the 13th I spotted [...]
Continuing my journey in long exposure photography I present a small series of images taken of a rock formation near Howick Scar in Northumberland. Recently I have been grouping shots into projects or series, with an endgame to display them online or in print as a single entity or collection rather than casting them out [...]
Recently I was asked to participate in some post processing of photos, with the results being shown and discussed on a Google+ Hangout (which took place at a forsaken 2am UK time on the 7th of February). Alongside a talented panel of photographers of various levels of skill in post processing photos, there was a [...]