With the person in the water, the eye lands first on the area of the fishermans huts and the rib, then immediately responds to the contrast of the figure in the water - so it's a bit like a visual see-saw - with image four providing a double see-saw with one fulcrum being, like the other two, the mid-point between the fishing huts and the bather, There is another line sort of running vertically between the woman and the rib.

The words on the wall advertising a restaurant in Ses Saline (Triple Restaurant FYI, and a great place for lunch) save me putting anything else.

A friend suggested that I share some of the images, with the thought that you may one day go on a trip that you want to take images of with a view to telling a visual story of the trip - Storytelling through Pictures.

The beauty of late summer is with us, I refuse to call it autumn yet, for my mental health's sake. This year the hedgerows, woods and orchards are dripping with harvest.

It's so easy you know, to slip out of touch. But it's also a good thing to make the effort, and get in touch. Perhaps you've fallen out with someone - it's actually eating away at you, and it will be for them as well. One of you has to make the first effort - why not make it you?

Yes, sometimes my mantra of 'look until you see' is necessarily tempered by the desirability of not missing the moment - and experience with reading the signs helps. Grab the moment, and re-shoot if it gets better. So two things I want to chat about, the first is the one addressed already, the need for character to produce emotive coastal images. The other is what lens to use with your iphone, other phone camera, or camera.

“From the archives — a quiet moment to end the week.”

This image is only possible from a land base when the sea and wind conditions are such that it is of tactical advantage to the yachts to come in close before tacking back across the channel, or in this case a turn of a few degrees to avoid the rocks, but to remain close-hauled in the favourable water / wind conditions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Five simple photography tips on photographing coastal scenes - Camera and Phone Camera Take time looking at the options you have in the...

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.

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)

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

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.

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...

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..

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.