When anyone has their picture taken it is human nature to want to try and look your best, weather it is for a family photo or a holiday snap! Here are some easy to follow tips I have picked up from others to ensure you make the most of what you have got!
Make sure you [...]
Images of Marilyn Monroe previously unseen have been published in a new book “Marilyn: August 1953: The Lost Look Photos”, which becomes available this week.
The images were taken over a period of a week in 1953, when the Hollywood actress had a sprained ankle and was unable to film ‘River of no Return’ with Robert [...]
Katherine Jenkins regularly updates her fans with what she gets up to throughout her day using Twitter.
However I am sure some people would have been surprised to learn that she posted photographs and “tweeted” during a charity 10K run in Swansea!
Katherine posted photographs of herself and the people she ran with at approximately the half [...]
American photographer Tom Lowe, who took an amazing image of an ancient tree against the backdrop of the Milky Way has won first prize in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.
The winning shot, named “Blazing Bristlecone” depicts the Milky Way arching over a very old bristlecone pine tree. The tree is believed to be [...]
An album of family photographs of Cumbrian-born slapstick comedian Stan Laurel will be going under the hammer in Newcastle. Stan was born in Furness, now Cumbria but spent the majority of his life in the North East managing theatres in the area.
The photographs have been put up for sale by his great- niece and are [...]
In my last post I wrote about the difficulty of taking photos of animals but
another tricky area of photography is managing to take photographs of babies
and young children. Unless they are asleep, getting a young child to stay still
for a photograph can be as hard as taking a photograph of an animal. I once did
a [...]
At the beginning of June a new photography exhibition opened at the Tate Modern called Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera. Controversy surrounded this exhibition as it featured images made without the explicit permission of the subject. This is what the general public are constantly exposed to; a surveillance society where one never knows whether [...]
Ex Take That pop group member and pop sensation in his own right, Robbie Williams is to back COOLPIX in a series of adverts that are due to run over the Easter break.
The advertisements are an attempt by COOLPIX to show how their Nikon COOLPIX range of digital cameras can be used for photography by [...]
With Christmas approaching very quickly I had the horrible realisation that I haven’t done nearly enough present buying yet! I still have a million and one presents to buy and by now I usually have at least decided what everyone is getting!! But racking my brains I thought this year I would buy my Mum [...]
The ghostly pictures keep coming - i told you once i get the bit between my teeth i have to find more
These next couple really do look very really - i wouldn’t have a clue about how you fact them.. my only question is why you would take a picture of a road or a [...]