I enjoy the videos Alex produces. He’s thoughtful and reflective. His YouTube channel is called The Photographic Eye and that’s really his focus – as he says ‘the art of photography is the art of seeing’. He does this by profiling the work of some of the greats but also draws on his own experience […]
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I live on the edge of the North York Moors National Park, an area well known for it’s industrial archaeology. Mining (for alum, iron, coal and jet) and quarrying (for stone, sands and gravel) have always played a part in the local economy and have left their mark on the landscape Iron ore has been
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I’ve only just discovered the Photography Daily podcast and can’t remember how but it’s a recommended listen. The man behind it is Neale James and his laid back style is just how I like it – for fear of offending him I can best describe his voice as old style Radio 2 – think Johnnie
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I don’t think I have ever been to this small fishing port, which is just 45 minutes drive from home, but I’ll certainly visit Staithes again. I was alerted to go by an article about the best places to take photographs in North Yorkshire and as yesterday was perfect, bright late afternoon sunshine and dark
This evening I went on a beautiful dusk walk up to the woods above Sinnington, Ryedale, North Yorkshire. A stony track just past the church takes you up to the woodlands which extend almost as far as the village of Cropton. You follow a path along the field edge with the woodland to your left
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I’d bought an iPad 2, probably ten years ago but when it eventually died it wasn’t replaced. We didn’t really miss it as everyone in the family ended up owning their own cheapish laptops for school and work but recently I had a craving for another. The reason – Instagram. As I began to focus
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I enjoyed watching an interview on Phoblographer with New York based photographer Gretchen Robinette who overcame her nervousness taking photos of subway passengers using her iPhone remotely, via her headset. I’d heard of this before but never got around to trying it so immediately went in search of my headset to give it a go.
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I’d always been interested in photography, in a holiday snaps, family portraits sort of way, but life, work, raising a family and all those sorts of things took precedence. The shift began when I started a blog about my home town of Kirkbymoorside and creating short videos profiling local businesses using a Flip camera (remember
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