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Exploring Graffiti and Street Art Around the World – with Simple Photography Tips
What does fascinate me is the range of imagery, and there is an increasing fascination in the whole genre of street art, and the artists involved, both well-known such as: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Banksy, Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey, and Os Gemeos; and the unknown "urban art guerillas"

Michael Blyth
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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 - how to lead the eye in photographs
The Simple Photography Tips I want to share with you are based upon a handful of photographs I took as I walked down, and which centre upon using features to lead the eye.

Michael Blyth
4 min read


Simple Photography Tips - how to photograph that 'lazy Sunday' morning coffee
I thought about you, and wondered if you struggle to get a decent shot of that wonderful mix that hits your palate and sends yum signals to your brain.
So I took a bunch of images to chat about. Yes, a whole series of photos of the same cup of coffee! Forgive me if they're not perfect, I was in a rush - flat-white, if properly brewed get's cool quickly, and I DO NOT LIKE COLD COFFEE when it's supposed to be hot coffee!

Michael Blyth
3 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


More Simple photography tips for time in Seville - or elsewhere - Royal Alcázar Sevilla
Moorish architecture is beautiful, indeed stunning, and some of the best is to be found in the Royal Alcázar of Seville. Islamic modified by later Catholic Monarchs, it is one of the finest examples of Mudéjar architecture.
Photographing such architecture is challenging, and rewarding at the same time.

Michael Blyth
3 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 for time in Seville - or elsewhere
So you're away from home, perhaps on business, maybe a weekend break, alone, or with others. and you Google search 'best things to do in Seville', A whole rank of things come up, but you want to spend time seeking photographic opportunities that are just a bit different. Let's take the listed things and add 'your' perspective.

Michael Blyth
5 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


Simple Photography Tips - Look until you see
So there we were, sitting sipping splendid coffee, my mind was on these blogs, and my strapline - "look until you see". So that I did, and here is one of the results.

Michael Blyth
3 min read


Simple Photography Tips - How to photograph the worlds markets
Perhaps you're on holiday, perhaps you live in a city, or near a market town. There are so many similar places in the world where you can go - the local market.
What they all have in common is that they are one of the best places to visit, with your camera or phone-camera. You can photograph people, often with real character showing, if the light is kind there are opportunities to take really atmospheric photographs, and you can get in close and photograph food in it's rawest

Michael Blyth
5 min read


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 - 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
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