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19/08/2026

Some photos are technically perfect and still feel a bit messy. Others just seem to fall into place.

Often, colour has something to do with it.

The 60:30:10 rule gives the colours in a photograph a clear pecking order:

60% sets the mood.
30% builds the scene.
10% gives your eye somewhere to land.

I’m not calculating percentages every time I press the shutter. But once you understand the idea, you start noticing it everywhere.

One colour leads. One supports. One small accent pulls everything together.

Swipe through for a simple lesson in why some photographs just feel right. Save this one and look for the ratio next time you’re composing a shot.

18/08/2026

Mallorca is one of those places I thought I knew before I went. Then we started exploring properly.

Yes, it has the turquoise coves and ridiculously clear water you see all over Instagram, but there is so much more to the island. Mountain roads, old stone villages, little fishing harbours and beaches hidden between cliffs.

From Porto Cristo and Cala Figuera to Sóller, Santanyí and the quieter corners of the east coast, Mallorca is an island that is best explored slowly. Some of my favourite days were simply getting in the car, picking somewhere on the map and seeing what we found along the way.

Beautiful, incredibly varied and still full of places that feel a world away from the busy resorts.

I already know we will be back.

17/08/2026

Most of the photography techniques I use regularly have very little to do with camera settings.

They’re about learning how to see a scene before pressing the shutter.

None of them require expensive equipment either. Most work just as well with the camera in your pocket.

Next time you’re taking a photo, spend an extra few seconds looking around the edges of the frame before you shoot.

There’s usually another composition hiding there.

Save this one for your next trip 📸

16/08/2026

The English countryside deserves the full frame.

Rolling fields, quiet lanes and skies that need room to breathe. I composed each of these photos this way, so I’m sharing them exactly as I took them. Cropping might make them fit Instagram, but it would change the story.

Which frame is your favourite?

15/08/2026

Sri Lanka is one of those places that gives you something completely different every few hours.

Sunrise on Negombo Beach. Tea plantations in Nuwara Eliya. Hanging out of the train towards Ella. Safari, surf towns, traditional oruwa fishermen, stilt fishing and the old streets of Galle.

I’ve travelled around Sri Lanka more than once, and it’s still one of my favourite countries to photograph because the landscapes are only half the story. It’s the people, the colour, the movement and those small everyday scenes in between that make it.

These are 16 of my highlights from travelling through Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

Which one would be top of your list?

14/08/2026

A slightly different one from me.

Rather than just sharing the eclipse photos, I wanted to show how I actually shot them. The planning, the setup, the settings, and yes… the very homemade looking solar filter.

I shot it on my Sony A7III + 70-200mm f/2.8, on a tripod, using ISO 12312-2 tested solar filter film mounted into a cardboard holder I made myself.

My starting point was around 200mm, ISO 400, f/5.6, 1/125 sec, then I adjusted as the eclipse progressed, sometimes pushing the shutter closer to 1/500 sec.

That is one of the things I love most about photography. Sometimes the final image looks simple, but getting there is a mix of preparation, problem solving and a lot of small adjustments in the moment.

Hopefully this carousel gives you a useful starting point if you ever get the chance to photograph one yourself.

12/08/2026

AI can make incredible images now.

But there’s still something different about standing there, seeing the light change, noticing a moment before it disappears and deciding exactly when to press the shutter.

Every photo in this carousel is real. Real places, real light, real people, real moments. Photographed by me, on a camera, somewhere along the way over the last 20 years.

Could AI recreate some of them?

Probably.

But AI didn’t. I did.

And for me, that will always be the point of photography.

11/08/2026

I never studied photography. No degree, no courses, no formal training.

I didn’t just picked a camera around 20 years ago and kept taking photos. I started on my phone and practised before getting my first camera about 15 years ago.

Thousands of frames later, photography has taken me across cities, coastlines, mountains, deserts and more countries than I can count. Most of what I know came from making mistakes, studying light, watching people, experimenting with composition and taking a camera absolutely everywhere.

These are some of my favourite photos I’ve taken on my Sony over the years.

Not necessarily the most technically perfect. Just the ones that remind me why I still love photography after two decades of doing it.

If you’re learning photography now, don’t underestimate what you can learn simply by going out and shooting consistently.

Which frame would you keep?

10/08/2026

I took pictures in Thailand and made them look like stills from a film.

Not by trying to make every scene perfect, but by watching for the light, the movement and those small everyday moments that make Thailand feel so alive.

Somewhere between the chaos, the colour and the quiet, it already felt cinematic.

What would you call the movie?

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