This handsome gentleman is my new friend Ritchie. While visiting on Saturday, I noticed this wonderful backdrop and asked if Ritchie would allow me to photograph him with the massive window behind him. It illustrated some of the challenges of portrait photography when snatching opportunities. Firstly, while I loved the soft and textured backdrop of the window,...
This extremely handsome and likeable young man is Tom. He is the son of a friend and last Saturday night he joined us as a few of us sat chatting. He happened to sit in a chair with a downlighter-standard lamp above and to the right of his head. I was immediately struck by how...
OK, so what is so special about this camera for me? Why am I so besotted? Let me start with size. (From the brilliant camerasize.com) This is a comparison between my Canon 7D and my Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mk2. This gives a sense of how much smaller the Olympus is, but what it doesn’t tell,...
Ok, I’m in love! It has taken a while for me to talk openly about it, because I have been broadly faithful for a long time, and coming to realise that something fundamental has changed has not been easy; there comes a time when only full confession will make things feel OK again. Pic by Kārlis Dambrāns...
These were taken a couple of weeks ago when HB and I had a wee afternoon in Troon. It was a dreich and miserable day but I made the mistake of uttering the words of paternal folly, “what would you like to do today”? “Troon” came the answer! So here we are, car parked and...
