Life can be confusing at times, particularly when you’re faced with a choice of two or more options. (Is it just me, or would it be a far better system…
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Thank goodness for gardens, window boxes and house plants. All provide home-based opportunities for some creative photography. Thanks to the return of spring – at least here in the northern…
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With the lockdown still in place and likely to last a few more weeks, it’s no bad thing to have new photography projects you can easily do at home. So,…
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One of the truly heartening aspects of the digital era is the way that interest in old lenses from the pre-AF era has been rekindled. Who’d have thought that dusty mechanical…
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I’ve owned or borrowed a few cameras in my time, but there’s one ‘camera’ I’ve owned for longer than I can remember, and would be very reluctant to get rid…
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There are two ways to look at the problem of being confined to barracks for the duration. You can either go slightly potty from boredom. Or, and this is the…
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Winter is the ideal time to try your hand at astrophotography. (After all, there’s more night than day this time of year!) So, here’s an interesting fact: there are roughly…
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You’re stuck indoors and you don’t know what to do with yourself. Don’t fret! Just embark on a mini photography project to while away the hours. Here are nine suggestions…
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Numbers. Yuk. I don’t know about you but I’d be lost without a calculator. Okay, I occasionally resort to working things out on paper, but only as a last resort…
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If you own a DLSR or mirrorless camera then odds are it has a mode dial. (It’s only top-flight pro camera models that tend to do without one.) Weirdly on…
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