When you think of Hollywood in the 1930′s, you think of photographs by people like George Hurrell.  Shots of Bogart, Hepburn, Crawford, Cagney… every screen star of the era.The difficulty of making these type of shoots work keeps a lot of new photographers away from it all. From the Hollywood of the 30′s, Dallas Photographer [...]

iStockphoto is a very popular stock photography website – with both photographers and buyers. If you’re new to selling your photos at online stock photo websites though, it’s usually helpful to find overviews and reviews of various sites available. Since iStock is quite popular, I’ve decided to outline my own experiences with them. When I [...]

How very apt. I came across this again recently and it could have been written yesterday! It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the [...]

Something a little different but topical nonetheless! Before there was a Saint Valentine to warm the heart and inject passion into the season, mid-February was a lusty occasion for lovers. As early as 400 years BC, Roman citizens took part in a popular yearly lottery in honor of their god of shepherds, Lupercus. Teenage women [...]

Winter time is an opportunity to use your camera in lots of different ways. We should start by covering a few points to consider when using your camera in winter . Number 1 is dress for the weather! There is nothing worse than being cold, wet and miserable. Take a warm drink? Secondly, you need [...]

Today, among other things video is very much “flavor of the month”. About a year ago I came across a lady called Lorraine Grula who was giving some excellent advice about buying a video camera. Lorraine (a professional in all aspects of video production) certainly knows her stuff and a look at her website will [...]

Digital cameras today are being made with more and more megapixels and the general feeling is that more means better – and more expensive. Megapixels and resolution is a tricky subject and quite difficult to absorb for the average camera user. As a rough rule of thumb more megapixels means greater detail or resolution which [...]

Due to the time of the year and the heavy rain this year, the forests here are full of mushrooms/toadstools/svamp and this has brought out the mushroom pickers. There is a lot of forest here and even with a large proportion of the population out picking mushrooms the chances of seeing anyone else are slim. [...]

I mentioned our cat in a previous post, which is a Norwegian Forest Cat, called Molly (don’t ask!) This is a domestic cat of Northern Europe that is adapted to extreme cold. They are really forest cats having come out of the forests many, many years ago although they are not feral like the wildcat [...]

Last week there was a wedding in my family in the UK. The wedding duly took place, there was a reception afterwards and everyone had a great time. Ages ranged from young babies to grannies and grandfathers. The younger adults all work hard at both their jobs and responsibilities and are a credit to their [...]