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Photographer, go touch grass! This one habit lifted me out of a creative rut

I’ve never been one for slang – my 7th grader and I both looked at each other with equal looks of horror when his teacher said that she used AI to rewrite the syllabus in Gen Z slang. But there is an expression that I can 100% get behind, particularly as a photographer: Go touch grass. Photographers – and really anyone dabbling in any sort of creative pursuit – you need to go touch…
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Take a seriously alternative approach to flower photography with a leaf blower!

Watch video: Blurred blooms The typical approach to flower photography is to use a long lens or macro lens and blur out the backdrop with a shallow depth of field, so that the focus is on the subject. But why not take a different approach to background blur? In this project, the aim is to blur the backdrop with motion. To achieve this, there are two key factors. First, we need to get set up for a…
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Ignore the rain, shoot the photo anyway!

Wales features three national parks consisting of the Pembrokeshire Coast, Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog) and Snowdonia (Eyri) National Park. They are home to sandy, coastal walks with sparkling, clear waters and white sand beaches out west, and also tall, rugged mountains surrounded by vast forests, lakes and a mass of waterfalls, wherever there may be a river. This makes Wales an incredibly…
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The 'Oscars of photography': Winners of 40th AOP Awards reveal the very best of modern photography

The 40th AOP Photography Award winners have been announced, marking four decades of recognising the very best in photography. This year’s ceremony, held in London on 9 October 2025, showcased a diverse mix of still and moving imagery, highlighting both technical talent and creative storytelling across commissioned, personal, and emerging work. In a modern world where AI-generated images are…
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