Category : Church

Switching to a Mac On Saturday I bought a MacBook Pro. I’d been threatening to switch from PC to Mac for a while now. Those D800 files are big enough, but pile them on top of each other, along with a few adjustment layers and luminosity masks, and they quickly become a burden to the […]

New Journal 56 – The Bell Tower Note: The free 1.7gb digital blending megapack is still available! I’ve been immersed in a room of darkness and silence as I record more of my cityscape tutorials today. Apologies for not including more in the written part of my journal. With the exception of yesterday’s trip to […]

New Journal 56 – Planning I have permission to shoot at Durham Cathedral on Tuesday. That is going to be amazing! And if the weather clears up, Rachel and I will be spending 5 days in Scotland, shooting some rugged landscapes. I’m keen to explore some of Scandinavia and Germany in the next 2 months, […]

New Journal 54 – A road trip After a couple of weeks of catching up on work that I’d fallen behind on while travelling, I found myself craving adventure again. The road, the sights, the possible photo opportunities, I can’t resist it, even when I have a lot of things I should be getting on […]

New Journal 26 – Lots of choices Rachel pointed out to me this morning that there seems to be a lot of food and drink choices in NYC. When we ask for a sandwich, we go through a small interview before we get it. Here’s a conversation I had yesterday night at a bar. Me: […]

New Journal 17 – And the journey continues The mysterious dry-lands of the Atacama desert are calling us. We leave in an our on another long (24 hour) bus journey. We’re soon to wave goodbye to Santiago firm in the knowledge that we will be back, sooner rather than later. The city has everything we […]

French Journal Day 172 (Travel Diary Day 252) It wasn’t until we rolled into the dimly lit car park of our motel that we realised why it was ‘reasonably’ priced. In front of us stood a box shaped building, as dark as its surrounding lot, more fitting of a bad-guys’ hideout found in some dystopian […]

French Journal Day 151 (Travel Diary Day 231) We have attained, for the first time in 6 months, a sense of normalcy in our lives. From going out shooting the wonderful city of Paris with locals and attending meetups with running clubs, to walking the dog and working during the day, we are almost on […]

French Journal Day 147 (Travel Diary Day 227) This is part 2 of our exploration of Notre Dame – Part one here. As my camera continued to fire off shots, I smiled at the approaching man and said ‘bonjour’. Neither the smile nor the greeting were returned. Expecting him to order us to leave, I […]

French Journal Day 146 (Travel Diary Day 226) The rickety scaffolding rattled and shook as we scaled it. It would be the first of two sets of stairs that I would feel uncomfortable on that day. We carefully reached the first leg of our journey – the lower roof of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. […]