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Locations and possibilities

Do you chase known locations or photographs?

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Seeing

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How many photographs have you taken?

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Punctuation; the space between

Len's presentation to the On Landscape, A Meeting of the Minds Conference in The Lake District, United Kingdom, November 2016.

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Depth Captivates

Two photographs showing the difference between a misty mountains day and a clear one.

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Olympus 25mm f1.2 Pro Review

Len has just spent a month with his Olympus M.Zukio 25mm f 1.2 Pro Lens, and in this review he discusses his observations. He also shows direct comparison with the Olympus 25mm f1.8 lens and the Voitlander 25mm f 0.95 lens.

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Len's favourite photographs for the 2016 year to date

So far 2016 has been a great year of photography for me, here are some of my favourite shots. It is amazing that all of these were taken on workshops. Either ones I have lead, or ones I have attended.

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Learning to draw, learning to see...

Learning to draw will improve your photography. Learning to draw in charcoal will help you understand and compose in tones. In this short article Len explains why you would want to learn to draw, and how to get started..

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Play to Learn

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It is not the critic who counts

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I shoot with my heart

" My photography is not ‘brain photography’. I put my brain under the pillow when I shoot. I shoot with my heart and with my stomach." Anders Petersen

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Works of art are...

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choosing a mirrorless camera

John wrote to me yesterday and asked me for some advice about choosing a Mirrorless camera. I started writing back to him, and thought I should turn this into a blog post about my current thoughts on which cameras to consider when going mirrorless.

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Midway - Chris Jordan

An excerpt from Chris Jordan's film Midway...

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Accidental masterpiece - Chuck Close

Photography may be the easiest artistic medium, with the possibility that someone may accidentally create a masterpiece. This therefore makes it the hardest artistic medium. Chuck Close explains this further very eloquently...

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Film is a Disease

Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film.

-Frank Capra

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Peter Dombrovskis

"...the more preoccupied I become with photography and with producing 'results', the less productive becomes my vision. The more open and receptive I am to find those objects of beauty that are symbols of the mysterious and unknowable. The search is always more important than the goal."

- Peter Dombrovskis