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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.
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
1 min read
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
2 min read
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
5 min read
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
1 min read
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
8 min read
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
1 min read
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
Late summer. Now is the time for photographing butterflies if you've only a phone camera – Simple Photography Tips - video”
This blog is my first attempt at a video where I share a few thoughts on how you can get really stunning butterfly pictures here in the Uk.
Earlier in the year, I spoke of the need for long lens or long and macro.
This was based on the 'flittiness' of these beauties in the height of summer when they have much more energy due to the heat and sun,
As summer comes to the end, there is a late hatch, in this case, of Red Admirals Vanessa atalanta.
Michael Blyth
1 min read
“Waiting with Herons: A Photographer’s Opportunity to Slowing Down – Simple Photography Tips”
The geese had already left, there were a few mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) still snoozing, a handful of teal (Anas crecca) feeding, and a solitary grey heron (Ardea cinerea) slowly wading through the middle of the pond.
I had one of my Nikon Camera's, fitted in case you're interested with a 70-200mm f2.8 and 1.7 teleconverter.
If you have one of the latest iphones or similar, you could still make a good effort, as you will understand in a bit.
Michael Blyth
6 min read
Six months anniversary of simple photography tips
Today marks six months of my Simple Photography Tips - twice a week, with the "motto ut aspias, done videas" - that you may look until...
Michael Blyth
1 min read
seascape photography tips: How to use your i-phone to create emotive seascape photographs
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.
Michael Blyth
3 min read
Simple Photography Tips - Finding Inspiration Through Photography and Words - swans landing together
Doing things together isn’t only about striving forward; it’s also about arriving, resting, and being present with one another. Just as these swans settle gracefully onto the water, we too find strength and comfort in shared moments of calm. Whether it’s winding down after a busy day, walking in nature, or simply sitting quietly with someone we care about, togetherness softens the landing.
Michael Blyth
1 min read
Part two of the joyfulness that comes with adding colour – Simple Photography Tips on colourful fruit photography and the mental health benefits of creativity
If you look long enough, you'll see that it's actually a basket resting on a table - funny how the eye sees things differently sometimes!
It's an image that would be brighter but less rustic if you were to set it up using those ultra-bright fruits from a supermarket.
Michael Blyth
2 min read
Using a teleconverter on your camera – with Simple Photography Tips on Wildlife bird photography
We are all very aware of the environmental nego's around replacing our old toys, for a new one's, whether it's a car, boat, or latest phone. In my case it was the temptation of a new lens. Did I need to? Not really.
I did think it would be worth spending a little bit of time, for your sake as well as mine, seeing if there was much of an improvement to be made, without the material waste.
Michael Blyth
5 min read
Simple Photography Tips - Finding Inspiration Through Photography and Words
Whether you're a fellow photographer, a creative soul, or just someone who enjoys a quiet moment of inspiration, I hope these 'images with words' bring you something valuable.
Michael Blyth
1 min read
Simple Photography Tips - Finding Inspiration Through Photography and Words
“From the archives — a quiet moment to end the week.”
Michael Blyth
1 min read
Simple Photography Tips - yacht photography from the shore - Admirals Cup 2025
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.
Michael Blyth
6 min read
Simple Photography Tips - The rule of vertical thirds
I'm forever referring to the 'rule of thirds', that series of imaginary lines that sit grid-like on any scene, and indeed not so imaginary on the 'viewfinder' of some cameras and phones.
Michael Blyth
5 min read
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
5 min read
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