I’m writing this at the end of 2018. Over the last couple of years, many of my friends have asked me whether I would recommend photography as a career for their camera-mad daughter or son.
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This is the 2018 edition of my “what are the best gifts for photographers” suggestions. Suggestions for beginner photographers, intermediate photographers, landscape and flower photographers. Things to keep you warm, things to read on your journey.
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If you could only take one lens travelling, what would you take?
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My friend Lara (@LaraInTheMiddle) started a hashtag last week that has struck a chord with many around the world: #100ThingsThatMakeMeSmile. Not 100 things that make me happy. Just make me smile for a moment. It’s an important distinction, and one which is making the hashtag a runaway success.
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If you’re going to leave whatever photography plateau you are currently living on, you will have to step out of your comfort zone and into the unknown. Once you’ve left, you can expect to be more creative, more confident, more adaptable and more interesting. You’ll have new stories to tell, a billion new ideas for photos to take, and you really will stop caring what people think (mainly because you’ll realise no one is paying any attention anyway)
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More than one person recently asked me if A Year With My Camera is just for women. It was a surprisingly difficult question to answer, and this post has taken a while to put together. The short answer is, “No, but…”
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You’ve planned a great day out on a group photo walk, and when the morning dawns you are faced with a steady drizzle, a grey sky and a depressing outlook. Do you call it off? Go and leave early? Carry on but moan about the weather? Having just been on a very successful photo meetup in the pouring rain, I can offer you some tips to make the whole day a joy.
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The advice used to be simple - leave only footprints, take only photographs. But in leaving our footprints and taking our photographs are we still damaging the environment? Is there any impact-free photography left?
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Giving feedback to a photographer about their work is much harder than it might seem, if you are going to leave them with their dignity intact, and even send them on their way fired up to try again.
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