Loch Ness – A personal project
Loch Ness – it’s fable, mystery and myth precedes itself. Whilst abroad a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a group of Italian travellers who asked where I was from. Inverness, in the Highlands of Scotland, was my answer. This was received by blank faces all round, then a sudden spark from one ...
Shoot for yourself !
No reason, just because you love shooting. Last year was busy, really busy! For me personally, it involved the forming of Parallel57, moving from the central belt to Inverness, opening our new studio, all whilst looking after my two young children in the midst of a very busy wedding season. It’s easy for anyone, particularly ...
Two Essential SEO Plugins for your WordPress Photography Site
This is the second (of two) installments about how to use some of the best plugins made for WordPress to enhance your WordPress website. The first was about the need for speed; this one’s about being ranked highly on Google and other search engines. There’s no point in having a beautiful or fast website if ...
Three Plugins to Speed Up your WordPress Photography site
If you’re running a website – particularly a photography website – based on WordPress then this is for you. In a competitive industry where clients frequently base decisions on their experience of your website, you need your site to be as snappy as possible. The web turns us into impatient five-year-olds – if it doesn’t ...
Photographing Dancing
Photographing dancing at a wedding (or any other event) is about as challenging as it gets. Lots of people moving quickly in virtual darkness pushes your camera to its limits and beyond: autofocus rarely works, the background turns into an infinitely black cavern, the flash overexposes or underexposes or both. It can be a nightmare. ...