The Beacon, taken at Elgol, the Isle of Skye. This simple image goes deeper than just the rain and the wind: it touches on the essence of…
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Lepe (pronounced leap) is an area of coastline between the mouth of Southampton Water and the mouth of the Beaulieu River in Hampshire. It’s not a particularly…
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Bourchier Books Interviews: pieces in the World War 2 jigsaw Probably the most challenging interviews are those occasions when the interviewee offers very brief or even one-word answers in…
Continue reading Bourchier Books I can’t recall the exact date, but it was in late 1997 that I had occasion to visit the New Forest in Hampshire. During the three or…
Continue reading Bourchier Books The IMP Test Some believe that all you need to be a great photographer is great opportunities, good luck and talent (and a camera of course). But…
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By Bob Ryan Of all the areas of expertise that define great photography, using the light is the one that has the ability to take the ordinary…
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Ask yourself: how many times in your life have you deliberately focused your camera? Ten thousand times, more? How many times have you let the camera choose…
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To be honest I can’t really remember when I first became fascinated by the subject of wartime history. I think I was about 8 years of age…
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It’s very hard to keep our feelings under wraps at the best of times and that is never so true as when we take a photograph. Both…
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Sublime performance in photography, as in any human skill, is down to three things: emotional engagement, commitment to challenging, repetitive practice and feedback. True expertise comes from... Continue reading
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