I’m Simon, an unabashed geek who enjoys writing about photography, graphic & web design, technology, productivity and all round hustle. In my spare time I fly 120km/h racing drones.
Light is everything in photography and sometimes it's so good it'll make you stop the car, grab your camera and jump over hedges to capture it. That's what happened on Boxing Day two years ago. I was cresting a hill not far from where I lived and saw the rays of light...
Today's Photo of the Week popped back up on my radar recently as it's being printed on perspex to be hung in an office in Glasgow. It might not be obvious at first glance that this was shot at about 11pm on a clear moonlit night but if you look at the blurred blades...
Today’s photo was taken just after dawn at the Bristol Balloon fiesta. Just before the sun rises about a hundred teams spring into action, unfurling huge balloons out on the launch field at Ashton Court. This image intentionally looks pretty calm but just out of frame...
For this week's photo you can probably tell I wasn't actually behind the camera! I've positioned my GoPro Hero 3 against a tyre wall and retreated to a safe distance. If you look carefully, you'll see me in front of the Race2Recovery truck on the right, leaning over...
This image was taken a few years ago as a Get Off My Ass mission - I'd not been out with my camera for a while and decided that tonight would be the night. I don't recall what gave me the idea but I decided on shooting some light trails and fired up Google Maps to...
As you’d expect from its name the Fire Force jet car is fast but I think the sheer amount of noise it produces is what makes it hard to shoot. Couple that with the fact it’s literally halfway down the strip at Santa Pod in the blink of an eye and you'll understand why...
Someone showed me a link this week to a program called Piccure designed to remove camera shake and motion blur from photographs. If this was an iPhone app, aimed at cleaning up those shaky images shot in nightclubs it'd be brilliant. Phone cameras just can't deal with...
I was confined to an exhibition hall because a monsoon had descended on Peterborough Arena and the rest of the show I was at was rained off. Not exactly conducive to photography but hey, I like a challenge and that challenge came from 'Maxxis babe' Sarah. Something...
I talk a lot about technique here on the blog. It's only a very small part of photography as a whole but it's not until actually using the camera becomes second nature that you can start really thinking about all the other stuff. Seeing a different angle or...
I've been shooting a fair amount of video of late and I'll be the first to admit I am having to scale quite a learning curve. Aside from the obvious, there are a lot of differences between shooting still and moving images. Some of this might seem a bit obvious, but...
