I’d not visited Barcelona since I was a child and after my trip to Morocco, I didn’t fancy returning to cold England, so spent a week exploring.The last time I’d been to Dalí’s house/theatre/museum, he was still living there. […]
Barcelona is a wonderful place – I really love the Spanish pace of life. The food is amazing too – a good job I was only there for a week as I developed a penchant for jamón ibérico and my lunchtime sandwiches were slowly bankrupting me… […]
Looking at scenes in black and white gives you a different understanding of light. It was a great opportunity for me to put into action the concepts of the Zone System – although on digital, it is a useful practice to produce correctly exposed images. […]
My photography course in Morocco was a great experience. Being with someone who knew the best places to get interesting photos, who also has a real passion for the medium made it a properly immersive experience. For a week, I thought of nothing but photography and properly got into the mindset. I also had the […]
I’d never really consciously considered the genre of abstract photography before I was introduced to it by Darren in Morocco. Now, I’m constantly looking to see how I can frame an everyday scene in a way that picks out patterns, or makes people look twice. (It’s also a source of amusement to me when people […]
Apart from gaining access to local knowledge of good photographic spots and opportunities, spending time with an instructor who knows the area and its inhabitants presents the opportunity to practice portrait photography in a relaxed environment. Putting the world to rights over a pot of mint tea, with the smell of amber in the air, […]
These shots were an experiment into looking more tonally at a scene, rather than using colour, during my course in Morocco. A very useful exercise. Switch your camera to monochrome every now and then, (even if you’re shooting RAW, as you should), it puts you in the right mindset. It’s far more productive than trying to work […]