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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.
Simple Photography Tips - Using cloud, and foreground.
The cloud conditions lent themselves to variable and interesting photographs, and I spent some time experimenting with some of the options on how to photograph a windmill like this. I was using my iphone 14.
Michael Blyth
3 min read
Simple Photography Tips for You - how to take photo-art - sand, water & light
The light changes, grains of sand and seashells, debris, carried forwards and backwards. Each shell affects the flow and form of the water, each sand ripples does the same, and that changes the way the light can reflect..
Michael Blyth
4 min read
Simple Photography Tips for You - Photographing seashells
So you're walking along the beach, perhaps on holiday, the others are off doing their own thing. You however have your camera of phone-camera. Here are some ideas.
Michael Blyth
4 min read
Simple Photography Tips - take pictures whenever
So let's take your imagination a bit further. You are out for a walk, you may have a few minutes semi-time to yourself away from the busyness of your life. That phone thing currently stuck to your ear, physically or via Bluetooth, has a much more for fulfilling use as a camera.
Look around, anything catch your eye? How about doing something creative? Breathe, relax have some time to yourself, take some pictures of what caught your eye.
Michael Blyth
3 min read
Simple Photography Tips - wild flowers photography - Wild garlic
Taking a walk in our local nature reserve at this time of year is an amazing visual and aural experience. The ground beneath the mixed woodland trees, is carpeted with swathes of wild flowers.
This is my favourite time of year, the early spring flowers like Snowdrops have faded and are disappearing back into the ground whence they came. They've been replaced, dominantly by Primroses and Celandines, which are at their peak now.
Michael Blyth
3 min read
Simple Photography Tips For You - Noticing leaves
Taking you on a photographic walk focusing on leaves
Michael Blyth
4 min read
Simple Photography Tips for You - Getting better exposure on photos with your phone camera
Let's have a look at getting better exposure on photos with your phone camera.
Michael Blyth
2 min read
Simple Photography Tips - Looking and seeing
Monet, is reported to have been in the habit of standing and looking, for around forty five minutes, before starting
Michael Blyth
5 min read
Simple Photography Tips for you - Using the foreground to improve your photograph
So I'm blessed to live within quite close range of one of the most stunning buildings in the whole wide world - Salisbury Cathedral, and many Saturdays we park on the edge of town, and walk across the ancient water meadows (Link to the charity?) on what is known as The Town Path. The photo's below show the view.
As is often the case, I took the images to illustrate a point and perhaps help you. Many days are sunny and stunning, others you are stuck, perhaps on a tour, or b
Michael Blyth
2 min read
Simple Photography Tips for You - inspiration while out for a walk
A walk with the dog. Learning to observe the natural world. Simple tips on how to photograph what you see.
Michael Blyth
4 min read
Simple Photography Tips for You - how to take great spring flower photos - snowdrops
As I sit here on a glorious, just warm enough, Spring day, writing this, wonderfully able to work outside nd top up some Vitamin D.
Michael Blyth
5 min read
Simple Photography Tips - how to take great spring flower photographs - catkins
Free simple photography tips on photographing spring flowers with your phone camera or digital camera.
Michael Blyth
3 min read
Simple Photography Tips
It’s not about the walk, or the standing, it’s not about the looking, it’s about learning to see – to notice things in a new way
Michael Blyth
1 min read
Simple Photography Tips for You - how to take great photos on your Phone or camera
An introduction to my Simple Photography Tips Blog. Helping you to be more fulfilled with your photography.
Michael Blyth
2 min read
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