Autumn 2025
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Summer 2025
This is the season in which I passed the milestone 10,000 of deliberate practice learning the art of photography (5th August 2025) To see the above photos in more details, click on the image above, to read about them click below, and in either case please follow me on the social media links to the…
Preparing Prints for Camera Club Competitions
In Camera Club print competitions it sometimes happens that the printed image and it’s accompanying PDI do not match. Often this is because the mount covers the outer edges of the print and spoils the crop which looks perfect in the PDI. This post aims to show how to use Photoshop to prepare files for…
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Other Top 10s at 10,000 Hours
This is a self-reflective post about how my taste in Books, Films and Music has changed over the course of the nearly 8 years that I have been learning about photography The beginning and the end of all literary [or artistic] activity is the reproduction of the world that surrounds me by means of the…
10,000 Hours Completed
Having now completed 10,000 hours of deliberate practice learning photography, this post reflects on the journey that took me from hobbyist to Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, and acceptances and awards in international salons I am deeply indebted to many individuals, who I have not mentioned for fear of missing someone important, but they…
Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting
Jenny Saville’s “The Anatomy of Painting”, National Portrait Museum, London (20 June – 7 September 2025) is the largest major museum exhibition of her work to date The picture above, shows the scale of Saville’s work with the viewer dwarfed by the giant canvas. The painting itself, 1999, “Hyphen” is a self-portrait with her sister;…
Spring 2025
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2025: Top 10 Painters
This is an update to the “Revised: Top 10 Painters” post that I wrote about this time last year, partly as an accompaniment to “Female British Artist” written at the same time. This might get tweaked slightly but is likely to reflect my views at hour 10,000 of this project (more…)
Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society
On the 14th May 2025, at hour 9,773 of this 10,000 hour project to master the art of photography, I was awarded a fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. This is the highest accolade the society has, and as good an acknowledgement of mastery as there is To see the images, and Statement of Intent,…
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Setting Up the Sony a1 – Safari Update
This post is an update to the “Setting Up the Sony a1” post published on 12th August 2023, builds on the experience of using the camera on an almost daily basis since that time, and was prompted by the issues I experienced during an intensive 10 day safari in Botswana and potential improvements in camera…
Progress Milestones by Hour
My favourite image before starting this 10,000 hour project. I think it captures the dynamic nature of Dubrovnik in the early evening, lots of movement and a limited set of colours (due in some way to over-processing) works well. It was/ still is loved my me, but no one else This post cross references the…
Surrealism 100 Years on
Introduction A simple history of Surrealism might state that it was: conceived from the trauma of the 1st World War born (1924) in the depression between the wars developed through the 2nd World War, and died in the relative peace and economic prosperity of the late 1960s … leaving an enduring legacy Above right, Joan…
Winter 2024/ 25
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Autumn 2024
Most of the top images are progressing the “Updating Magritte” project or are creative street photography. This is a departure from previous years where autumn has focused on landscapes To see the above photos in more details, click on the image above, to read about them click below, and in either case please follow me…
9,000 Hours – 90% Review
9,000 – touchingly close to the 10,000 hours of deliberate practice theoretically required to master the art of photography – review to date Please post any comments below To Read more click on the link (more…)
Summer 2024
8,758 to 9,017 of 10,000 hours mastering photography through structured deliberate practice To see the above photos in more details, click on the image above, to read about them click below, and in either case please follow me on the social media links to the right. (more…)
Five Hours at the Pompidou Centre
I am generally a man with a short attention span, half an hour at a gallery or exhibition is generally enough, an hour or more is exceptional. The Pompidou Centre maintained my rapt attention for over 5 hours with only the briefest stops for rehydration (the above image is not my photo) (more…)
“Female British Artist”
On the 15th April of this year Sotheby’s New York sold Leonora Carrington’s 1945 “Les Distractions de Dagobert” for $28.5m setting a new record for a female British artist. However, if we remove the words “female” and “British”, she doesn’t make Wikipedia’s list of the top 89 most expensive paintings. In fact, no women artists…