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Simple Photography Tips
It started with a simple image in my mind—a woman on holiday, suddenly free as her family went off doing their own things. She sat in the sun, enjoyed a drink, and took in the view. As she looked around, she noticed a charming doorway with an old, rusty doorknob. She thought about taking a photo with her phone, but felt unsure. Her husband, with his online courses and hours of practice, seemed much more capable. Meanwhile, she had always been too busy with everyday tasks.
That moment became my


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
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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 - 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 - stuck overseas for the weekend - Paris
nine simple photography tips on what to do when you're stuck in a foreign city at the weekend - Camera and Phone Camera Look for a new...

Michael Blyth
6 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 for You - how to take photo-art to decorate your kitchen
I was preparing red cabbage the other day, and noticed the beauty and complexity of the slices.

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


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 - Abstract Arty Pictures On Your Phone Camera
Paris late Summer. On the banks of the River Seine. These simple photography tips are about taking something slightly strange

Michael Blyth
2 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 - Landscape v Portrait Photographs
Ok, so a very simple discussion here, landscape v portrait photographs.

Michael Blyth
2 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
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