Brie Stockwell, Len’s A Creative Affair podcast co-host, is offering a free live webinar on Dec. 9 at 12:30pm AEST / Dec. 8 at 7:30pm CST: 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞.

Momento Pro have added Len’s Club to their student program. This means that members of Len’s Club can access Momento Pro products and benefit from special discounts.

Well the time has come to announce the encouragement awards for the summer project, ‘Themes and Variations’. We hope you have enjoyed looking at all the stunning artworks submitted this year, and the wonderful discussions they have inspired. I am so thankful that everyone participated with such enthusiasm.

Now that Len’s 30 hour online composition course has come to an end we have collated all the exercises that go with each video into a book.

I love one lens more than the others. Not just a little more, but a whole lot more.  Within three days of buying it my digital photography took an monumental leap forwards, nailing some fantastic photographs with it. It is a milestone in my digital photography after trying unsuccessfully for ten or so years. It is now my go to lens. The one I grab when I am in doubt. The one I want with me all the time.

In this article Len discusses his thoughts around edges. Edges of the day, edges of wilderness and the forest, the edge where something breaks. This article was originally published in Better Photography Issue 88 in Winter 2017

After writing an article for Better Photography recently about Thinking versus Feeling photographers, it later dawned on me that Ansel Adams and Edward Weston would be great to illustrate my points about two very different photographic styles and what we can learn from them..

In this article Len describes two different approaches to photography and uses the metaphor from being a painter or sketcher to describe these two different approaches. Which one are you? Can you learn from the other? First published in Better Photography Issue 87 in Autumn 2017

Len shares his list of Australian landscape photographers who are well worth getting to know better.

Len looks at some of the secrets of the Masters of Landscape Photography. Here he discusses the difference between chasing the landscape, in contrast to chasing the light.

Len’s Rules was first published in Better Photography Magazine in Spring 2016 Issue 85.

“Some serious, some not so serious, here’s how Len Metcalf tackles photography in a philosophical sense. Are all of his rules reasonable?” Asks Peter Eastway.

Len discusses the importance of play in his photography in this Better Photography Magazine. Originally published in Winter 2016 Issue 84.

In this article from Better Photography Magazine Issue 83 Autumn 2016, Len talks about selecting different aspect ratios and his underlying feelings about how each works aesthetically. Aspect ratios refer to the shape of the frame that you photograph in.

Len discusses cropping your photographs. There are a number of different philosophies and approaches. He reflects in them all in this thoughtful article on photographic technique.

Colour was first published in Better Photography Issue 81 in the Spring of 2015. In this article Len talks briefly about colour wheels and some fantastic colour combinations worth exploring.

Len returns to Creativity in this Better Photography Magazine article that was published in Issue 80 winter 2015

Lens Balance is an article that describes a model for photographers to consider their own strengths against and identify their weaknesses. It was originally published in Better Photography Magazine in issue 79 in Autumn 2015