Richards Ramblings

Once again, it's evening and I am next to the river. The sun is dying as it starts to slide below the horizon. As a last hurrah, it blasts across the grass and trees suddenly illuminating them in a glorious spectacle of colour and brilliant light. The landscape changes, it blooms basking in the final death rays, of today’s sun, shadows become that little bit deeper and the tops of trees rustle in the gentle breeze. Sometimes you can see the...

My first love is the sea. I cannot tell you why but standing next to the shore, in a boatyard, harbour or just in an estuary I feel real peace. Just listening to the noises of the area. Be it the ticking of halyards against the mast or the long calls of birds in the emptiness I feel an escape like nowhere else.  A deep release, I do not get there often enough. So, it was with some excitement that I went to Covehithe on the Suffolk coast a...

Some Tips for you to try   1)Don’t zoom, walk. It is very easy to get into the habit of zooming the lens to get things “right” but how about walking and seeing if you can get something better. 2) Use Depth of field. Where are you concentrating your viewers’ attention? How will you direct their gaze to where you want it? By using depth of field, you can isolate things within the frame to accentuate the part where you want...

Instructions Life and photography are an emotional roller coaster with no instructions. Nothing on how to start, stop, change the speed or direction. You just sit there getting caught up in everything on a daily basis and then you wake up one morning and wonder where the past few years have gone. In a photographic sense, this includes looking at and buying “better” and definitely more expensive equipment. Stupid O’clock starts and...