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Photographing Nature
Welcome to the Photographing Nature section of my blog, where I share inspiration, techniques, and tips to help you connect with nature through your lens. Whether you’re wandering through a forest, sitting by a quiet lake, or observing wildlife in motion, nature photography offers endless opportunities to explore beauty, light, and life in its rawest form.
Whether you're just starting with a smartphone or shooting with professional gear, you'll find ideas designed to improve your photography.
Using a teleconverter on your camera – with Simple Photography Tips on Wildlife bird photography
We are all very aware of the environmental nego's around replacing our old toys, for a new one's, whether it's a car, boat, or latest phone. In my case it was the temptation of a new lens. Did I need to? Not really.
I did think it would be worth spending a little bit of time, for your sake as well as mine, seeing if there was much of an improvement to be made, without the material waste.
Michael Blyth
5 min read
Simple Photography Tips - Finding Inspiration Through Photography and Words
Whether you're a fellow photographer, a creative soul, or just someone who enjoys a quiet moment of inspiration, I hope these 'images with words' bring you something valuable.
Michael Blyth
1 min read
The joyfulness that comes with adding colour to your life – Simple Photography Tips
In reality, although the higher the IQ the better the response to greytone, it is colour that we were created to see, and it is colour that can be a huge blessing in many ways.
The effects of bright colour on the brain, and thereby the rest of that body of yours, are considerable,
Michael Blyth
4 min read
Simple Photography Tips - Finding Inspiration Through Photography and Amusing Words
As my photography mentoring gets busier, it feels like the right time to simplify. Last week I started a new weekly series—sharing one of my photographs along with a few thoughtful words of encouragement, laughter or straightforward sass.
Michael Blyth
1 min read
Simple Photography Tips - Finding Inspiration Through Photography and Simple Words
These aren't simple photography tips as such, but more like life inspiration through photography—a mix of visual with meaningful reflections, with lighthearted quotes
Michael Blyth
1 min read
Exploring Sunflower Photos – with Simple Photography Tips
With the summer holidays in full swing, it’s the perfect time for families to get outdoors and enjoy some creative fun together. If you’re looking for things to do with young people—or just want a relaxing, activity for yourself—why not go on a photography adventure?
One beautiful and accessible subject this season is the sunflower. While entire fields can create breathtaking landscape photos, but don’t overlook the detail in a single bloom.
Michael Blyth
3 min read
Simple Photography Tips - Finding Inspiration Through Photography and Simple Words
As my photography mentoring gets busier, it feels like the right time to simplify. I’m starting a new weekly series—sharing one of my photographs along with a few thoughtful words of encouragement.
These aren't simple photography tips as such, but more like life inspiration through photography—a mix of visual with meaningful reflections.
Michael Blyth
1 min read
Simple Photography Tips - how to get your exposure right for Sunset photographs
A late evening preamble by the lake to the side of this wart, is an enjoyable experience, and we partook.
Aware of the difficulty with exposure in these conditions, where the eye/brain is so clever, but a camera is not, I took a short series of photos to help you sort your images, and to inspire you to experiment.
Michael Blyth
3 min read
Simple Photography Tips - How to photograph Toads
There was I wandering alongside one of the leats in the Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen, an amazing place of grown-over sand-dunes which are used as a huge water purification system to supply Amsterdam, when I saw a toad.
Michael Blyth
2 min read
Simple Photography Tips - just sit and see what you notice
The scene, although not particularly photogenic as a whole, was one of fascination. The water in the canal next to us, was mostly sunlit, and over the period of time we sat imbibing, the angle of the sun on the water, changed, and with it the reflections, and clarity of the water, and what and how we saw.
Michael Blyth
5 min read
Simple Photography Tips - how to photograph Butterflies
In that fantastic time of year known as summer, we are blessed to see the wonder of the few remaining butterflies. Yes, miserably, in most parts of the world, our pre-occupation with pesticides and monoculture, along with climate change, means there has been a staggering decline in both numbers and species.
For those of us lucky enough to still see these beauties, and whom have the desire to try taking pictures of them, here are a few tips.
Michael Blyth
3 min read
Simple Photography Tips - beach photography, and improve your mental health!
In this case an early sunny summers' morning, and a shuffle along the beach. Why a shuffle? It's the best way to notice things, especially small things. Crouch down if you can, and you'll see a whole bunch more. Even better, crawl if it's sandy.
The whole business of looking until you see is really highlighted when looking at a beach, there are truly so many things that grab your attention, that it's really easy to miss the small stuff.
Michael Blyth
5 min read
Simple Photography Tips - Depth of field problems
If you're using a phone camera then you're sort of stuck with aperture, there being relatively little difference between the lenses. The is no simple photography tip that will change that, nor a complicated photography tip for that matter!
With a DSLR or similar, and depending on your lens choice, you can stick the thing on f22, or whatever is your smallest aperture, and have much more of the flower up large and in focus, along with the background scene also in focus.
Michael Blyth
2 min read
Simple Photography Tips - nurturing your creativity on Rainy Days
So, after so much dry weather, it was raining quite heavily this morning, great for farmers, and cow's that are allowed on pasture.
Also an ideal time for me to get out and take some images to inspire you with simple photography tips for what to do when you're out for a walk in the rain.
Michael Blyth
3 min read
Simple Photography Tips - Choosing your foreground
Five simple photography tips on photographing coastal scenes - Camera and Phone Camera Take time looking at the options you have in the...
Michael Blyth
3 min read
Simple Photography Tips - Looking and seeing
This simple photography tip is part of a series about the importance of looking, and taking time to see. It's only when you do this, that you start to see things
Michael Blyth
2 min read
Simple Photography Tips - The rule of horizontal thirds
I've referred to the 'Rule of thirds', in many of my blog articles. It's been requested that I do a blog on the rule to perhaps make it clearer for anyone who's unfamiliar with what I was blogging on about (as against blagging on about)
Michael Blyth
3 min read
Simple Photography Tips - how to photograph into the sun
Now your eye, linked to that clever bit of creation known as your brain, takes the scene and ignores all sorts of things that distract from the scene. But your camera, whether big proper one, or phone camera, doesn't do that, so you have to learn some 'techniques'.
Let's have a look at the images I took, and the progression to a 'better' picture.
Lens flare can be fun in places, but not here, it spoils the picture.
How to deal with Lens Flare is today's first Simple
Michael Blyth
4 min read
Simple Photography Tips - Using Light & composition to improve your plant photographs and make them more artistic
some simple photography tips to encourage you to get the best image you can by thinking about the light and the angles involved.
Michael Blyth
3 min read
Simple Photography Tips for the weekend - make the most of spring - Ferns
Ferns and their fossil remains have been found on every continent, so wherever you are in the world, possibly barring Antarctica, this blog on photographing ferns may be of relevance.
Over the last forty years and more I've been mesmerised by these amazing plants, especially in the spring when they go through the most intricate, and taken many images of the unfurling of the leaves.
Michael Blyth
4 min read
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