Photography

Whatever the weather! On a particular morning recently, the forecast for Clevedon said full-on sunshine from around midday until sunset. So I planned an afternoon visit to capture the iconic Victorian pier, which poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, once said is: “the most beautiful pier in England.” However, such is the changeable nature of weather, during the day it remained totally overcast…

Can 360-degree cameras be used in the dark to image the night sky? Astrophotographers have been using circular fisheye lenses to capture the Milky Way for decades, while astronomers regularly employ 180-degree (whole-sky) lenses to image fleeting “shooting stars” and, in the case of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), produce an all-night timelapse of auroras (see this example).

Are you ready for the biggest full moon of the decade so far? November is sure to be a top month for astrophotographers. This year brings the biggest supermoon in more than six years, two meteor showers, and one of the most photogenic night sky objects rising high in the east.  Add Mercury’s best morning appearance of the year, and November 2025 is a great month for taking cameras and tripods…

If you’re a beginner photographer there’s perhaps no simpler compositional rule to master than filling the frame. This often-touted photography ‘hack’ has become a bit of an instructional buzzword akin to Weegee’s “f/8 and be there”. And indeed, filing the frame can be traced back to a legendary photographer, too, none other than famed photojournalist and Magnum co-founder, Robert…