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Travel Photography
In the Travel Photography Tips section of my blog, I share easy, practical tips to help you take stunning travel photos—no matter your experience level. Whether you're on a quick business trip or on holiday, these simple photography tips are here to inspire you, boost your confidence, and help you tell more compelling visual stories.
With mobile phone photography advice, everything is based on my real travel experiences. My goal is to show you how to take better travel photos.
Simple Photography Tips by Michael Blyth - Subscriber-only membership offer
I’m creating a small photography membership; not a course, and not a busy online group; but a calm, supportive space for people who want to slow down, notice more, and grow in confidence with their photography.
It values care over speed, encouragement over competition, and attention over noise.
It’s built on the belief that learning to see takes time, and that the right environment makes all the difference.
Michael Blyth
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Simple Photography Tips - Icy Day Photo-Art
realised that the way the autumn leaves had landed in the bowl had combined with the structures that the freezing process had produced, to create some great opportunities for art images.
Rather than looking for subjects, it's an opportunity to seek textures as well.
Tiny bubbles frozen in the water add depth and a sense of time held still. Look for clusters, trails, and size changes.
Cracks are like faults in a precious stone, they can reflect light at a different
Michael Blyth
4 min read
Simple Photography Tips - Celebrating 2025 In Pictures
Celebrating 2025 in Pictures is a stroll through some of the images I’ve used this year to illustrate the joy of photography. As I share and celebrate the year in photographs, I hope you’ll 'join the walk', the same quiet lesson I’ve been learning: to stop more, look more, and accept the images that waft into your awareness.
Michael Blyth
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Friday Photo Inspiration. Simple Photography Tips “Christmas is for Slowing Down”
In some parts of the world, where it's warm and sunny - go and find a lizard and sit still, breathe slowly, and just watch it - two minutes, five minutes. Look at it, and notice things you'd never noticed before. Look around and notice.
If it's wet and miserable, go and watch a branch drip, notice the light shining through, move a little and watch it from a different angle.
Michael Blyth
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Simple Photography Tips - Learning To Notice
The weather is broken cloud, the sun peeking through, then hiding again.
You’re in the mood for looking, for noticing. Seeking something quirky in this seemingly rather featureless wintery lane, as a diversion from Christmas 'festivities' perhaps.
You might start to notice a few things; the way the recycled road material has formed a pebbly surface, with shapes and shadows. The trees either side of you, and the way their trunks sit in parallel up to the sky.
Michael Blyth
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Friday Photo Inspiration. Simple Photography Tips “same path different journey”
Friday Photo Inspiration. Simple Photography Tips “No-one But You Walks Your Journey”
Michael Blyth
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Simple Photography Tips - Sunset Photography
Perhaps rather blunt, but sunrise and sunset photography centre around the appearance or disappearance of an immensely bright splodge of light, either appearing over the horizon or sinking below the horizon.
There's nothing unusual about this, happens every day, has been for a few years now, and God-willing, will continue to.
Photographically it's pretty boring, and it needs a number of add-ons to give it interest, certainly if you want to print it for others to enjoy.
Michael Blyth
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Friday Photo Inspiration. Simple Photography Tips “Avoid The Cliff edge - Cap de Formentor Mallorca.”
It strikes me that many of the highest peaks, the best outlooks, and the ultimate goals all require zig-zags, the willingness to turn from the straight way, even if you can't see the reason. It may not be a cliff as in the picture, but you never know what lies ahead.
Michael Blyth
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Simple Photography Tips - The psychology of Photography - Entering or leaving a picture
In summary; it matters whether the subject is moving into the picture or out of it. In terms of 'story', it changes how the viewer reads the story, feels about the moment and how direction changes this.
Michael Blyth
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Friday Photo Inspiration: Simple Photography Tips & Uplifting Insights, Don't get too close
a quiet moment to end the week with inspiration through Photography and Words “Light doesn't ask permission — it just transforms.” Friday photo inspiration ;“A quiet reminder that the overall you is more important than the tiny details - don’t get too close.” “Nymphe couchée” (Reclining Nymph) by Léon-Ernest Drivier, Palais de Tokyo / Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris Not a simple photography tip as such, but more like inspiration through Photography and Words—a mix of visual with
Michael Blyth
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Simple Photography Tips: How to Avoid Lens Flare in Landscape Photography
Out for a few minutes walk before meeting Favourite Middle Daughter for a before work coffee from Roc and Floss at the market. I was able to capture a short video demonstrating how to use existing objects to cut the lens flare that occurs from bright light entering the lens at the wrong angle - this is usually sunlight, but can also be streetlights etc.
Michael Blyth
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Simple Photography Tips: Seeing Light and Finding Photo Opportunities on a Woodland Walk - for phone camera or camera
There's something hugely healing about walking through woodland, slowly, maybe with a camera in your grimy mitt. Your slower than normal pace allows you to notice the way light falls across a path, or is excluded by a tree blocking the light to form a shadow.
Michael Blyth
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Friday photo inspiration. Simple Photography Tips: Sharing Inspiration Through Photography and Words inspirational Scottish seascape photo
In terms of Simple Photography Tips there's an interesting exercise you might benefit from; try in your imagination re-positioning the yacht, and seeing how the balance changes and how the significance of the various parts of the image change.
Michael Blyth
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Simple Photography Tips - photography in different weather
1. Fog hides distractions.
Third picture, misty day is like you've slung a big sheet from a couple of helicopters; background gone, eye focuses on the tree.
2. Try black and white
I've turned both images to monochrome, you can see that the colour complicates the image too much.
3. Use roads as leading lines
Oh, and the road running from either sides, makes visual use of the interesting thirds, and takes the eye straight towards the subject.
Michael Blyth
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Friday photo inspiration. Simple Photography Tips - Finding Inspiration Through Photography and Words "Sunset Blessings".
We had arrived at Far del Cap Salines moments after the sun had set, thinking we'd missed the show, but then the sky caught fire - it got better than this, but my i-phone died through lack of battery. --aaaghh.
Michael Blyth
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If Your Photos Feel “Off”, This Is Probably Why - balance in photography - Simple Photography Tips
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.
Michael Blyth
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Friday photo inspiration. Simple Photography Tips - Finding Inspiration Through Photography and Words - "Happiness".
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.
Michael Blyth
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Storytelling through pictures – Simple Photography Tips
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.
Michael Blyth
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Simple Photography Tips - Finding Inspiration Through Photography and Words - Beauty in imperfection.
I went for a pint and a think at the Horseshoe Inn. Looking brought me to seeing, and that in turn led to this image. And now to the reflection on the reflections.
Michael Blyth
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Simple Photography Tips - Finding Inspiration Through Photography and Words - Meet up and share time
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?
Michael Blyth
1 min read
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