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Salcey Forest parkrun [272025]

Salcey Forest parkrun – one of my favourite venues with a new start I went along to capture. Full set can be found here Read more

27/12/2025
52 Assignments – Landscape – #11 Kind of Blue

IntroductionThis assignment was about shooting during blue hour – which isn’t really even an hour sometimes. Discarded ShotsI tried a variety of different shutter speeds and a couple of different compositions. These ones weren’t my favourites of the photos I came away with. The one on the left was too far past the blue hour Read more

21/12/2025
52 Assignments – Nature – #11 Wildlife Landscape

IntroductionThis assignment was about including wildlife in your landscape photos and offered a few tips and tricks on how best to approach this. I went through a few variations on the crop on this, and the below image is the one I liked the best. Favourite Photo Kit UsedCamera – Z fcLens – 16-55mm Follow Read more

19/12/2025
Christmas Lights

Trying out a new (physical) filter! Zfc with 16-50mm kit lens Read more

14/12/2025
52 Assignments – Black & White – #36 All A Blur

IntroductionThis assignment was full of tips about aperture and shutter speed when creating blur and had lots of useful references on what shutter speed to use when (eg walking speed, trains and so on). Discarded ShotsI tried a variety of apertures and shutter speeds – after using shutter priority I then balanced the settings manually. Read more

12/12/2025
52 Assignments – Composition – #06 Living on the Edge

IntroductionThe next assignment I have tried is this one which is about how changing the positioning of a subject can change the overall image. Discarded ShotsI tried a variety of framing for the shots, and definitely got really distinct pictures just by changing the framing. I probably would have automatically chosen photo one below as Read more

12/12/2025