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As you might have guessed I have been working on rebranding my website. I have been doing my brand identity with a designer and am very happy with the results. I spent quite a bit of time working on both …
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As you might have guessed I have been working on rebranding my website. I have been doing my brand identity with a designer and am very happy with the results. I spent quite a bit of time working on both …
After Summer holidays I am back to work. I have had a great two week trip around the South of France and got back last Week. It was a wonderful trip from London to Eygalieres in Provence where we stayed …

Sony 90mm f2.8 Macro lens, initial thoughts. I have had the new Sony 90mm Macro lens for a few days now and have made a few test image and taken it on one assignment. On my most recent shoot for …
Regarding lens focal lengths that I use. I like to work with lens that do not put me to far away from my subject, I do not generally need long telephoto lens and I do not need extreme wide angle …

Zeiss Loxia 35mm f2 Random thoughts. I do not really do traditional lens reviews as I do not have the patience and/or knowledge of how to do these. What I do however, is use a lens to see how it …

Zeiss Loxia 35mm Yesterday, Zeiss set me a Loxia 35mm f2 lens to use. I have been wanting this lens since it was announced as I have seen from numerous websites that the lens appears sharper in the corners than …

Some inspirational thoughts on photography. Paul Graham and Gerry Badger In conversation at www.bjp-online.com I love this statement by Paul Graham. “PG – I’m a firm believer in working in the world as-it-is, and arriving at your ideas through that. It has …

Hong Kong, August 2014, I have been editing my files and finding other images that I like. Sometimes as a photographer it takes distance from the actual making of images to find the great images.
I have been doing some thinking about how I talk to people via this blog and realised that I am talking to other photographers and not to the audience that I want to. So from now on anything related to …

Oxford Street Sony a7S with FE 24-70mm F4 ZA @ 38mm 1/1500 sec; f/6.7; ISO 3200. I like shooting from the “hip” sometimes, as it gives me a different perspective. In making this image, I was using the fold out …