On Saturday 8th September 2012 Art Wolfe came to London to give a lecture to a group of photographer at the Royal Geographical Society and MyPhotoSchool was there to record the whole day. Art started his talk by saying he “photographs without predigest”  Although  known for his wildlife and culture images, he shoots everything (except weddings he jokes) from graffiti to an old tin bucket. The theme of the day was Finding your Subject, and over the next 5 hours…

A lot of great photographic images owe their success to careful planning by the photographer.   A landscape photographer will plan his visit to a location at the time of day when the light will be coming from the best direction; a wildlife photographer will maybe spend hours or even days studying the habits of the animal he wants to photograph, so that he can be in the right place at the right time.  In any photographic genre a bit of…

How to look beyond the obvious to find great Photographs There will be some times when a photograph will leap out and hit you between the eyes in all its glory – but at other times you sense there is a possibility of a picture in a location, but have to search a little harder for it. I had one of those experiences on a walking holiday along the North Cornwall coastal path a couple of years ago.  It was…