Binoculars, Magnifying Glass, And A Piece Of Rope

It Is Getting Harder To Travel Light There was a time when I would have been happy to leave my camera at home and let my senses do the recording. Now a camera, lenses, and a laptop are all fighting for space in my pack. For all that, the guiding principle I have always followed … Read more

Up Close With Ponies On Dartmoor

Memory And Travels Memory… is the diary that we all carry with us. Oscar Wilde What has often been most memorable in my travels are those moments that were unplanned and unexpected, and not necessarily those places about which I have had great hopes that something wonderful would occur. One such space in time happened … Read more

A Photoshop Technique For Darkening Around A Soft Outline

Introduction We have just added this photograph of a Herdwick sheep to our range of ecards. The original image had a distracting background and this article explains how I removed it without ‘rubbing out’ the delicate edges of the the fleece. Love And Economics The fleece of the Herdwick sheep is a rich brown color, … Read more