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Landscape Photography Kit Essentials

In this second part of the series on Landscape photography I’m going to go through some kit essentials that you might want to consider. Full disclosure here, the Amazon links are affiliate links which means I earn a few % commission if you buy anything through the link. You will still deal with Amazon and…

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Trading Up With Wex

I had a plan A three step plan – to get into a pro-level drone like a DJI Phantom or Mavic. The plan was this; Buy a small cheap (£50) done for some fun flying – learn how to fly it, take some video, have a laugh. Convince Mrs C that this was a good…

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Exciting news update

It’s been ages since I wrote anything on here and one of the reasons why is that I’ve started a new venture; It’s an Amazon Associate website based on drones, drone flying and drone buying. The website is in the final stages of development as I’m adding some content and adjusting the layout but it…

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Christmas Gifts for Photographers

Last year I wrote 10 posts on Christmas Gifts for photographers, but rather than repost or repeat them you can find them all summarised via the link in the menu bar on the left or click here. This year I’d like to add a couple more items to the list that I’m hoping Santa will bring…

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Sony Xperia Z5 Review

It’s been a few weeks since I got my new Sony Xperia Z5 phone, and as I have used it quite a lot in the last couple of weeks I thought I’d write a quick review in place of my normal Shot of the Week post. Basically I love it. Having been a Samsung user…

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New Year, New Gear

OK, so my plan was to write a couple of posts about the new kit I got at Christmas, but due to an error on my part I’ll only be writing one. The reason for this is that the Yongnuo remote flash trigger YN-E3-RT and receivers YN-E3-RX, don’t work fully with my two flashes –…

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Mobile Creative Part 5 – accessories

I’ve talked about some of the apps that I use for my mobile photography over the past few episodes including Pixlr, Snapseed, Vignette. Today want to talk about some the accessories that you might find useful; Selfie stick Firstly, let me make clear that I do not advocate the use of selfie sticks for the…

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Christmas Gift Ideas

From Tuesday 17th and for the following 10 days I will be posting some gift ideas that you might like to take a look at – either for yourself or for the photographer in your life. Check the new set of pages in the left hand menu bar which will start to appear from tomorrow (Tuesday…

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Most Expensive – Part 1

We all know that photography – as with any hobby – can get a bit expensive if you want to go for the latest and greatest stuff. But recently I was pointed to two articles that give the extreme end of photographic expense. In the second post I’ll talk about the most expensive photographs ever…

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The Panasonic Lumix TZ60

We’ve touched a little bit on kit already, and I’ve mentioned quite a few times the Panasonic Lumix TZ60 that I have with me most of the time, so I thought I’d talk a bit about why I like this camera. And just to clarify, I am not being paid anything for this review. The…

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The 4 stages of learning

Continuing on the theme of whether buying kit is the best way to improve, I thought I’d share with you my take on the 4 stages of learning to be a photographer. It can be hard to define precisely the four stages in terms of what skills you have or don’t have but I like…

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