The botanical garden in Munich is without doubt one of my favourite photo locations. The compact nature and contents provide photographic opportunities with every turn. The layout is excellent; the access is great and the care taken with the plants means that one can get really good photographs. Early each year (Jan-Mar) they have a
I use a Nikon D5200 together with Nikon’s older AIS lenses in manual mode. I originally bought the camera as a kit with the 18-105mm kit lens. The kit lens is absolutely useless; the results with auto-focusing are poor, the manual focusing is impossible, the lens does nothing to contribute to good crisp images. I
I was 5 or so, years old when I first understood that people wanted to kill me and my family. My awareness of my surroundings and visual inspection of every environment, I went into, was hard wired as a form of self-preservation. My father, an officer in the British Army was as we all were,
I always make it a principle to check the work of people when they have commented on my videos or tweets. More often than not these non-mainstream contributors, creatives and private people have more to offer than most. So much of the “web”, “Social Media” and “digital” is simply designed to capture our time for
