Month: November 2017

A city with an amazing history with architecture and atmosphere to match. It is a wonderful city with very old buildings and a canal system.

Rangefinder cameras give a larger view onto the scene, DSLRs don’t. This, in street photography, can make a difference when the composition is disturbed by people or objects unexpectedly coming into your composition.  In this video I suggest 4 ways in which a DSLR can be used to see the scene larger than the image

Kieler Woche is a sailing and boat regatta. It is very old, first named 1894. Here is a little taste of what Kiel has to offer each summer… Great place, much more exciting and interesting than one might think, but perhaps you have to be into the sea, seafaring, boats and ships to appreciate it…

I think it is difficult asking people for pictures yet still ensuring we are doing “street photography”. I don’t think Henri Cartier-Bresson asked and risked his “decisive moment”! What do you think?

Similar to the collection of old farm buildings at Amerang, this is a smaller but different collection. It is a bit more open and less full of buildings. Nonetheless the collection is impressive and the opportunities are interesting. For the other video on Amerang, a similar farmhouse museum see: Flickr Album: https://www.flickr.com/gp/alex_jackson-smith/506290 Enjoy. Alex.,

These are the 5 main points that influence COMPOSITION in my street photography. In this video I share some of my approach & what I do, when I am out taking them.  Hopefully you will find something that is new and worth trying. Enjoy. Alex.,

Munich has quite a lot of green areas, but the main park area running either side of the river Isar is the Englischer Garten. This park area has a lake, streams, woods and open grass fields. The central area has a restaurant, beer garden and the Chinese tower, which is a pagoda that is used

Freising is a town North East of Munich and is on the local public transport train system (S-Bahn). Close to the airport the main brewery complex is located on a hill that over looks the airport in the distance. Located on and around Weihenstephan are the gardens and the pub. Great place, but you need