Photography
A practical journal on photography, covering camera technique, composition, and real-world shooting, along with detailed Lightroom and Photoshop workflows. This is where I share experience-driven insight built from years in the field and in post-processing—how images are captured, refined, and prepared for print, and the decisions that shape a photograph from the moment of exposure to the final finished piece.
Photography
How to Shoot Street Photography
Street photography involves reading a scene and deciding how to move within it. I explore observation, timing, smaller equipment and focusing techniques, alongside the balance between remaining unobtrusive and engaging with people when that interaction becomes part of the photograph.
How to take Photos in Fog
Fog changes the mood and structure of a landscape, hiding some details and drawing attention to others. Using my Caddo Lake photographs, I discuss conditions, viewpoints, equipment and exposure, along with the patience needed to work as the scene keeps changing.
Walking and Creative Thinking
Walking can give a stalled idea somewhere to go. I explore research on movement and creative thinking, along with practical reasons to make space for a walk, and consider how a simple change of pace can fit into a working day.
How to improve creativity
Creativity is something I make room for through habits as well as inspiration. I explore attention, routines, time alone and new experiences, considering how everyday choices and a supportive environment can help ideas develop without making every moment a test of originality.
How to Remove Chromatic Aberration in Lightroom
Purple and green fringes can distract from sharp edges in a photograph. Explore Lightroom’s automatic lens corrections and manual colour-fringing controls, with examples of how to identify chromatic aberration and refine the correction.
How To Use Images To Help Improve Your Social Media Marketing
A useful social image needs to connect with the people seeing it. I explore profile photographs, blog images, memes and infographics, with ideas for choosing visual content that supports a message and gives readers a reason to notice, remember or share it.
Ghost Towns in USA
Ghost towns offer different traces of the industries and communities that once sustained them. I gather locations across the United States with historical context and approximate coordinates, providing starting points for exploring mining settlements, preserved streets and other remnants of earlier lives.
Mastering the Rules of Composition in Photography for Stunning Images
Composition gives me ways to organise what a photograph asks you to notice. I explore lines, shapes, balance, aspect ratio and visual storytelling, treating familiar guidelines as tools to practise and adapt rather than instructions that settle every creative decision.
Street Photography Magazines
Photography magazines give me another way to encounter street photographs, portfolios and ideas. I gather publications ranging from specialist street journals to broader photography titles, outlining their different approaches and the opportunities they offer to study other photographers' work more closely.
How to restore deleted photos in Lightroom mobile
Accidentally deleted a photograph in Lightroom Mobile? Follow the process of finding recoverable images, selecting them for restoration and checking the result, with a discussion of recovery limits and the value of separate backups.
How Do You Copyright a Photograph or Image?
Having my photographs stolen has made copyright a practical concern for me. This introductory overview discusses protection, registration and responding to unauthorised use, with particular attention to the US registration process and the distinction between general information and individual legal advice.
How to smooth skin in Lightroom?
Subtle skin adjustments can reduce distractions while preserving a portrait’s character. Follow an approach to Lightroom retouching that addresses blemishes, uneven tone and harsh texture without losing the expression that makes the photograph matter.
