Moving a camera just half a metre can often make the difference between a great photo and a brilliant photo... just don't tell everyone else!

Backgrounds are an essential part of any good photograph... and often they need just as much attention as the foreground.

Magenta can be a beautiful colour in a floral arrangement, but on skin tones and concrete it can be rather disconcerting!

They say "take the road less travelled", and I think if you are a committed photographer you should be trying to make the photos that others do not see, or do not want to see!

One of the sneakiest tricks in portrait photography is also one of the simplest... and it is all to do with toning down the dome.

When you do not have much other than a sky and some street lights to work with, you really need to start focusing hard on the design of the picture.

Most photographs are not unique... they have usually been made before by someone else, somewhere in the world. The challenge for any photographer is how to take that idea and make it your own. Therein lies the challenge of photography!

It does not really matter how old your subject is... the rules of design and composition remain the same!

This is the start of a good idea, but you need to do some more exploring! Here are some options...

Nothing is more important in photography than capturing a moment... and this image is a great example.

Learning to balance a ball on your forehead takes some practice... and so does learning to balance the composition in a photo!

This is a technically perfect photo, but now comes the difficult question... what to do differently the next time you photograph a robber fly?

Sometimes the temptation can be to try and get too much space into a photograph, particularly when we have a nice wide-angle to work with.

Slow Shutter Speeds are good for capturing fireworks, but sometimes you need some support...

The secret to being a good photographer is learning what is important in a photo... and realising what is distracting!

Sometimes the "moment" dictates how a photo is going to look, simply because there is not the time to do it any other way. And that ain't all bad!