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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.
What Phase Two - 'The Action Group' - Looks Like in Practice. Photography Observation Exercises
Notice details of trees, moss on logs, or rocks, the way a wave surges back leaving a mist in the air. The light that shines through a hole in the cloud in the distance.
Instead of concentrating only on the subject, notice the space between you and it.
Notice how distance changes things.
Contrast softens.
Colours fade.
Shapes simplify - either blending, or becoming more defined.
Michael Blyth
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Photographing Buildings at Dusk: When Artificial Light Brings Architecture to Life - Simple Photography Tips by Michael Blyth
The light changes minute by minute during dusk. A sky that feels dull can become rich blue ten minutes later. Artificial lighting strengthens as the winter evening progresses.
Stand still, watch the light change, and let the scene reveal itself before taking the photograph.
Michael Blyth
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Friday Photo Inspiration With Words By Michael Blyth - It's Mostly About The Journey
The knots in our minds are often the hardest to unravel, so very true sometimes. Anything come to mind? It takes time and sometimes there seems no route, but there probably is.
Michael Blyth
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Simple Photography Tips by Michael Blyth: Why Distant Hills Turn Blue – Visual Recession in Photography
We were high in the Pyrenees, having risen early to avoid the heat as we climbed towards the col, leaving Spain behind us. In the distance stood Vignemale, the highest peak in the French Pyrenees at 3,298 metres. I found myself transfixed. Ridge after ridge dissolved gently into blue. It is an effect I have always loved.
Michael Blyth
4 min read
Friday Photo Inspiration By Michael Blyth “Beauty Perceived" Presents "Learning To See"
An old door, photographed in France, in desperate need of a rub-down and a coat of paint. But also a thing of beauty, a work of art resulting from the effects of time and weather.
Michael Blyth
2 min read
Friday Photo Inspiration. Simple Photography Tips By Michael Blyth “Fulfilment comes from the journey”
a quiet moment to end the week with A reminder; "Fulfilment comes from the journey, especially if it's a tough one.".
Michael Blyth
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Friday Photo Inspiration. Simple Photography Tips By Michael Blyth “All We Have Is Today - The Present”
Most of us were taught we have five senses. In reality, we also have senses that help us read our body, movement, and internal state. Sunrise and sunset are perfect moments to practise them, because the world slows down enough for you to feel what is usually drowned out.
Michael Blyth
1 min read
How to Photograph Snowdrops: Simple Photography Tips by Michael Blyth
This video, with a very dour voice to start (sorry) is to inspire you to get in there and see the close-up beauty of Galanthus nivalis, and maybe take some photographs.
Michael Blyth
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Friday Photo Inspiration. Simple Photography Tips By Michael Blyth “Don't Let The Bad Days Shade The Good .”
Has something happened this week that's left a deep darkness, or hurt. Search as hard as your soul will let you, for something good that happened. If you can't think of anything, than pick up your mobile, or even better a pen and paper, and write a kind note to someone else who's struggling. It will change you, as well as them.
Michael Blyth
2 min read
Welcome To The Centenary Blog Post Number 100 of Simple Photography Tips By Michael Blyth - Dealing with The Perils of Morning Sunshine
Image One is the result of having the lens with nothing to stop the light bouncing around inside the lens, causing the same flare we've talked about before. But this particular morning there was something at stake - pretty cottages, a frosty field and a country scene.
Michael Blyth
4 min read
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
2 min read
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
1 min read
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
1 min read
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
3 min read
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
1 min read
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
4 min read
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
1 min read
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
3 min read
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
2 min read
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