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Landscape - A seasonal perspective

The changing seasons can have a profound effect on the landscape and, therefore, photographic techniques.

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Places to Photograph - Some of the Best

Most photographers are looking for great places to photograph. This section covers some of the best that we have visited.

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Santorini - A Gem in the Greek Cyclades Islands.

Santorini in the Aegean Sea is a photographer's paradise.

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New Zealand - A visit to North Island.

New Zealand is a stunning location with photo opportunities wherever you visit.

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Helsinki - Blending the New with the Old.

Helsinki doesn't feature on many people's bucket lists of places to photograph. But with its wide range of classical and modern architectural styles, seaside location with adjacent islands, outdoor museums, and busy event calendar, there's lots to see and do. It's very seasonal, and a good base for onward travel to photogenic locations across the Nordic region.

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The Lake District - No other so exquisitely lovely, no other so charming.

The Lake District - Surely there is no other place in this whole wonderful world quite like Lakeland...no other so exquisitely lovely, no other so charming, no other that calls so insistently across a gulf of distance. All who truly love Lakeland are exiles when away from it.

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Ireland - A great combination of scenic beauty with its rolling green countryside and spectacular coastlines.

Ireland has a great combination of scenic beauty with its rolling green countryside and spectacular coastlines. It also has excellent historic architecture with the many castles, churches and of course, pubs.

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Venice - One of the most interesting cities in the world to visit and photograph.

Venice is truly a unique and beautiful place and one of the only cities that can boast having no roads for motorized vehicles in the main portion of the city.

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Sensational Sydney - To Tire of Sydney, is to Tire of Life.

When a man is tired of Sydney, he is tired of life; for there is in Sydney all that life can afford.

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Lesvos - A Greek island in the Sun

Lesvos is a very beautiful island. Pine forests, olive groves, and barren mountains, with lots of inland sea, unspoilt countryside, and friendly locals are the draw here! Lots to photograph too.

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Komodo National Park - Home of the Dragon

Komodo offers some of the best diving in Indonesia, but there be dragons as well.

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Costa Rica - An adventure right from the start.

The adventure across central Costa Rica began with drive through Braulio Carillo National Park, lush and mountainous.

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Snowdonia - The most stunning views that North Wales has to offer.

Snowdonia has so many outstanding vistas on the circular tour that the best advice is just to say - do it!

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Mont St Michel - A Spiritual Spire Ascendent.

Mont St Michel is an absolute must see if you are visiting Normandy or Brittany in the northern part of France.

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The Golden Triangle - A Magical Tour of India

Travelling the Golden Triangle presents many opportunities for better photographs with a difference.

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Wildlife and Nature Photography Books - A Selection of Good Buys

A selection of Wildlife and Nature Photography Books which have helped our visitors take Better Photographs.

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Birds in Flight.

Birds in Flight in Low Light.

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RPS Nature Group - Cross Fertilisation of Ideas and Techniques

The RPS Nature Group brings together photographers, naturalists and biologists who encourage each other.

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The RPS (Royal Photographic Society) - A must for the serious photographer.

You are unlikely to meet an Amateur or Professional Photographer who cannot benefit by being a member of the RPS.

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Remembering Wildlife ...

Scarcely a week passes that I don't re-read one of my 9 books in the 'Remembering Wildlife' series. There is always one of them on my coffee table for visitors to admire and consider buying one from the founder of this marvellous initiative, Margot Raggett. Each book contains not just beautiful photos from top wildlife photographers and an insight into the individual species, but the sale proceeds are donated to the charities who are doing their utmost to protect them. Yesterday, I pledged to support the 10th book which is due to be published later this year. Whilst focussing one of the most endangered of all mammals, the Pangolin, it also contains photos from all the previous books. Whether of not one of my photos is included, I am proud that this is one thing I can do to help ensure our wildlife is preserved. To find out more, simply click this image or the link below ...

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