Amateur Photographer

If it wasn’t for the fact that I’ve seen butterflies in real life, I’d probably think that they are mythical creatures from some fantasy realm, like unicorns. Around 60 species of butterfly can be found in the UK, from late March, as well as over 2,0

Where does the value lie in your photos? Does it lie with your unique ‘take’ on the world and your individual vision, or does it lie with the technical quality of your images? Most photographers would say you need both and might assume you can have y

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IN ASSOCIATION WITH ● £399 ● www.olympus.co.uk Olympus’s Tough compacts have habitually won our underwater camera group tests, and this latest model is still the best of its type. It’s waterproof to 15m, shockproof against a 2.4m drop, crushproof and

Recently my eye has been caught by the appearance of a new lens, which seems to be quite a departure from the norm. The lens is the Voigtländer 50mm f/1.0 Nokton Aspherical, to give it it’s full title. Optically the design of this lens follows well-e

There’s a word which is in use regularly today which, quite frankly, drives me up the wall.. That word is ‘backstory’. It is, sadly and annoyingly, a word often used when describing a photograph. It is particularly beloved of landscape photographers,