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New Video!
I’ve made a new video for my YouTube channel on my recent experience using the…
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Why the Viltrox 56mm F/1.4 is becoming a favourite lens of mine.
Regular followers of my photography will know that as a general rule of thumb, I…
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A family break with the CCD Nikon Coolpix P50.
For the first time in as long as I can remember, we took a family…
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My New (Old) Nikon, And Why I Had To Have It!
As you may know by now, I have a new camera, and I am back…
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A Visit To Bishops Wood And Caswell Bay
Bishops Wood is a beautiful nature reserve in Swansea, Wales. It has 46 acres of…
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A Trip Of Discovery To Margam Park
I’ve been to Margam Park many times in my life, but today it was a…
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A Visit To WWT Wetlands Llanelli. Wildlife Galore!
WWT Wetlands Llanelli is a wonderful place to visit if you love nature and wildlife.…
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Aberavon Docks – 4k Test With Fujifilm X-T3 (A typical morning photography)
A very short one today. I have been meaning to get into 4k video and…
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Jersey Park Sunshine, Bluebells & Flowers
It was a lovely spring day, so what better than to grab the camera and…
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The Garden In The Rain
It is a wet, but mild May afternoon, and as a break from life, I…
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Dinefwr Park And Castle Visit
Dinefwr Park is a National Trust property located in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales. The park is…
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Its Bluebell Season And Time For Family Images!
Bluebell season is here! What better way to start off the season but take the…
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Life Update, Cameras & Project
I have a new video out at last. It gives a little life update, talks…
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Gelli-Hir Woodland Walk – Something A Bit Different!
Gelli-hir Wood is a partly ancient woodland of around 28 hectares, situated on the northern…
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Why I like using the jpegs when I take photographs
Let’s get this one thing out of the way before we start. As you all…
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Fforest Farm. Birds, Water & Wildlife.
Fforest Farm is a stunning little nature reserve near Cardiff, South Wales. About 40 minutes…
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A Walk Around The Area For Some Shutter Therapy (SOOC)
Went for a little stroll around my local area. I just wanted to capture today.…
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Reasons To Print Or Use Film In 2023
Printing is important in photography for a number of reasons. First, it allows photographers to…
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Why I’ve Stepped Back From GPWSW And What’s The Future Plans?
Anyone who has known me through photography has known me through a number of ways,…
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A Sunny Spring Day With The Family At The Gnoll
So, the children are on school holidays for a fortnight for Easter, and today was…
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An Experiment With AI Art
I like to try new things, and so I have been hearing a lot about…
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Hensol Woods, The People & More. In “American Color” DT Styles.
Today we made a visit to a woodland in the South East of Wales, known…
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An Informal Selfie Shoot
I’ve been really lacking inspiration for photography lately. I go out weekly, take photos, but…
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A Visit To The Ruins Of The 14th Century Capel Mair.
Today we visited Capel Mair, in Margam, Port Talbot, Wales. Capel Mair is a small…
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Langland Bay To Caswell Bay And Back. Beautiful Coastline Of Wales.
Wales has some spectacular scenery, as you’ve probably seen over the years on this website.…
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Fujifilm raw files and why they can look underexposed in Darktable
Many users of Darktable are Fujifilm camera users, and thankfully Fujifilm raw files work nicely…
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Waterfalls, Darktable & How Shooting raw Really Can Save The Day!
I have my first new video of 2023 out now, and it is something very…
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Waterfall country. Pontneddfechan
It was a glorious winters day, with it feeling more like Spring than it should.…
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Making Darktables Quick Access Panel Much More Efficient With A Few Simple Changes!
The Darktable quick access panel is a great idea, and you can perform almost all…
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Port Talbot Art Walk 2023
Port Talbot is a town known for many things, and not always good! However, it…
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Rest Bay Porthcawl – A Day Of Photos, Stacking Images, Long Exposures And Panoramas
It was a stunningly beautiful January day, the sun was out, there was no biting…
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Simply and quickly avoiding hue colour shifts with Darktables Filmic/Sigmoid modules.
Darktable is a fantastic editing program, but it is not without its faults. For many,…
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Coity Castle & Church.
It has been a long break from group meets, so a month later and I…
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Darktable: Filmic RGB, Sigmoid Or Neither?
Darktable is an amazing piece of software, however, the decision to develop a separate module…
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My New Techniques For Editing Images (Examples)
For the last couple of years, I’ve been obsessed with getting things right in camera…
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Using Frequency Separation to Retouch Portraits
Introduction Being a portrait photographer inherently comes with a responsibility to ensure the model looks…
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The First Sunset Shoot Of 2023
I went out for a stroll with my eldest, and never intended to go out…
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Darktable 4.2 Review And Overview
Another year is ending (and ended!) with a new Darktable release, and the free and…
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My Photography Goals For 2023
I’ve been enjoying photography for a long time now, but I want to enjoy it…
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A Selection Of Darktable Styles – Part 2
Darktable has its own presets that are known as Styles. They’re a powerful and useful…
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My Top 7 Fujifilm Recipes I Use Most Often
There are so many Fujifilm recipes out there now, you just can’t keep up, so…
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How important is it to photograph in raw instead of jpeg? A different reason to consider!
A question we’ve all heard asked a million times… “Do you shoot raw or jpeg”?…
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Improve your photography with my 10 tips – By Stephen Davies
As we are in the age of the smartphone we are all now photographers and…
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Editing Habits – The Big Poll Results
It’s always interesting to get an idea of how long the average person takes to…
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Why you should invest time to learn Darktable
Darktable is a free and open source raw editor that you can download and install…
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10 Days Of Christmas Festive Special Starts Soon!
It is that time of year again when for a week or so before Christmas,…
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Fujifilm X-T3 long term review
It’s almost 2023, so I thought I would look at the Fujifilm X-T3 and give…
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Mumbles – The Final Meet Of The Year (In new recipe “K Kolour”)
As you all know, I take a group of photographers out every week. This week…
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A Walk Around The Lower Lliw Reservoir
As the year comes to an end as far as group meetings go, our penultimate…
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8 Questions Photographers Ask – And the honest answers to them!
I have a new YouTube video out! Its a quick video where I honestly answer…
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Penllergare Forest Walk (With The Viltrox 56mm)
Another week, and again I visit a forest. Today we were lucky as when we…
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A Long Overdue Portrait Shoot
For many years I’ve been planning on having a selfie-portrait shoot. Today I had a…
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A Climb To The Top Of Drummau Mountain
To say this was one of the best days I’ve had, and how proud I…
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Autumn Park Walk With A Telephoto Lens
Autumn is supposed to be ending soon, but it has not quite reached it’s full…
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10 Questions I’m Often Asked As A Photographer By Other Photographers
As a popular and prominent photographer in South Wales with my work with Great Photography…
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Editing Made Simple In Darktable. A Video.
I’m back! Well, I haven’t gone anywhere, but I have not made any videos for…
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An Autumn Visit To Craig Gwladys Country Park
Autumn is a wonderful time for photography. The colours, the textures, the mushrooms, the leaves…
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DXO PhotoLab 6 Elite Review
Although not as well known as other software packages, the DXO name IS known from…
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My First Red Mushrooms (Fly Agaric)!
I’ve been hunting red mushrooms (Fly Agaric) for many years, but I’ve never been successful,…
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Autumn Visit To The City
Swansea is a great place to visit, and in autumn, some of the colours can…
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Fujifilm X-Mount 56mm F/1.4 Review
I recently reviewed the newer Viltrox 13mm F/1.4 lens for Fujifilm which I bought at…
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A selection of Darktable Styles
Darktable has its own presets that are known as Styles. They’re a powerful and useful…
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A Walk Along Neath Canal
It was a glorious day, and what better way to spend it than taking a…
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A Mushroom Hunt (And More) With The Viltrox 56mm
I had the opportunity to go out for a few hours and hunt for some…
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Fujifilm X-Mount Viltrox 13mm F/1.4 lens review.
I’ve never really been one to use third party autofocus lenses, but a while ago…
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Southerndown And Dunraven Bay Visit
A visit to Southerndown and Dunraven Bay in Wales was on the cards. It had…
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Olympus Pen E-PL8 2022 new camera review.
I like to make sure I really know a camera before I make a review…
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Swansea Architecture, People And Marina
There are times when you go out and everything is just right. The weather, the…
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Two New Lenses! My Mission Is Complete!
When I first started using Fujifilm, I always intended to use all prime lenses (or…
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Margam Pulpit And Castle With The Olympus
A trip to Margam Pulpit and Castle. I already did a recon mission of this…
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A family day out on the Pontwalby trail
The great thing about having the Olympus EPL8 is that its so small and compact,…
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A Walk In The Park With The 50-230mm
Today was a day for some recon on a destination to take the photography group…
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Castles, Animals And A Church At Merthyr Mawr
Today we visited a castle we had never been to before, a beautiful church we…
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Where I want to go with my photography lenses (my current road map).
I’ve been making some changes lately, I’ve sold some of my Fujifilm gear and I’ve…
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A Trip Around Neath Fair Market Stalls
Like clockwork, the fair arrives at Neath town centre every September on the second Tuesday…
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Why the camera you use (probably) doesn’t matter.
We live in a world where we want, want, want, and this goes for photographers…
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The Beach, The X-T3, The 50-230. What Fun!
I’ve had a couple of short little walks out as I try and get myself…
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Margam Abbey And Stone Museum
We’re so lucky to live in an area that has so much history, so much…
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I’m on Vero!
There has been a lot of talk about this social media site for photographers, so…
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A Walk Along The Coast. Mumbles To Blackpill
It was such a gloomy morning, but the photography session had to go on! By…
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Family Day At Margam Lake And Abbey
Its still the school holidays! It feels like they’ve been going on for ages. Anyway,…
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I have bought into a new camera system! My first impressions and images.
Oh no! Rumours were rife last week that I was leaving the Fujifilm ecosystem behind.…
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George’s Fourth Birthday!
It’s so nice to just take photos of the family. In fact, I think I…
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Clyne Valley With A Yashica 5cm Manual Lens!
So today I went on a group meet. Sadly, I didn’t stay the full length…
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Five Reasons To Use Auto-ISO
When I’m going out with the camera, I want to make sure I get the…
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Quickly get a workable image in Darktable
Darktable is the go to free photo editing software for many people. It’s powerful and…
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Family break to Tenby
As I haven’t been well, and the kids are off school, and the wife is…
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An day of ICM at the beach.
I have already experimented with ICM (intentional camera movement) as can be seen in this…
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Butterflies, Bees And Macro
I’ve only had chance to pop into the garden lately to take some photos, and…
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Website and life update
Welcome everyone, and thank you for taking time to read this. I thought I would…
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Garden Close-Up Photography
As I’m awaiting my operation and generally trying to relax and fend off the pain,…
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Why I’ve grown to love (and hate) the XC15-45mm
I’ve owned the XC15-45mm for the last four years, and used it quite extensively. I’ve…
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An Experiment In ICM (Intentional Camera Movement)
I’ve not been too well lately, and after a spell in hospital, and now the…
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Photography At Brecon (The People, The Cathedral And More)
Brecon, in the middle of the Brecon Beacons in South Wales is a historical garrison…
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Why I started Great Photography Walks meets and Facebook pages and what I think about it and it’s future.
In 2017 I had some free time on my hands after finishing full time work…
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One Camera One Lens – Honest photography capturing life.
Honest photography capturing life… Because a camera should never lie.
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A Day At The River With A Vintage Lens
Ah, The Quays in Neath Port Talbot is a lovely place to visit. A circular…
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