A small lamp is illuminating my keyboard. I’m sitting upstairs in my parents’ house. The faint tick tock of a grandfather clock downstairs is echoing through the nightly silence. I don’t know what to write. It’s Thursday the 19th of September as I write this. My dad died this morning and I hoped that writing […]
To immerse oneself in a beautifully creative mindset and environment: to learn to express oneself: to truly enjoy the creative process and in the end, to come out with something beautiful or meaningful to you – that is the essence of art, to me. Yet, as you’d expect, there is, always has been, and always […]
New Journal 59 – In Preparation for the Isle of Skye On the weekend we’ll be cruising up north to spend 10 days on the Isle of Skye. Having just received news that the 14-24 lens that is due in the mail has been stolen, it looks like I won’t get the lens in time […]
New Journal 58 – Photography as a therapy A reader emailed me to say that not long ago he was seriously ill but on the path to recovery. He found photography a very therapeutic activity that aided in his recovery. While I’m fortunately in good health, I couldn’t have agreed with him more. A few […]
New Journal 58 – More Goals To learn to create cityscapes like this, please visit my Art of Cityscape course. Further to yesterday’s journal on learning to swim and setting swimming goals, I thought it would be an encouraging exercise to note down the other 6 months of goals I’ve set myself. I write down […]
New Journal 57 – Learning to swim Most adults feel at home in the water. Others, however, believe that the water will take them one day, and if the water doesn’t finish them off, whatever horribleness deep within almost certainly will. I was a weak swimmer. I could do a manic front crawl for about […]
2.5 months of planning, 4 weeks of writing, recording, re-recording, cleaning sound & editing and finally the Art of Cityscape Tutorials are now here. This is the most varied set of advanced post-processing tutorials that I’ve ever created. We work on some of my most popular images and learn to blend exposures effectively using 3 […]
New Journal 56 – The Bell Tower Note: The free 1.7gb digital blending megapack is still available! I’ve been immersed in a room of darkness and silence as I record more of my cityscape tutorials today. Apologies for not including more in the written part of my journal. With the exception of yesterday’s trip to […]
New Journal 56 – Durham Cathedral Note: Remember that the 1.7gb digital blending megapack is still available! – Today we had the wonderful privilege of being shown around the very grand, Durham Cathedral. We explored the darker, rarely seen corridors and viewed the main hall from an amazing spot. Even if I’d left the camera […]
New Journal 56 – Planning I have permission to shoot at Durham Cathedral on Tuesday. That is going to be amazing! And if the weather clears up, Rachel and I will be spending 5 days in Scotland, shooting some rugged landscapes. I’m keen to explore some of Scandinavia and Germany in the next 2 months, […]