Tim Parkin

The Outdoor Show

Enjoying landscape photography often requires that we have the right gear for walking and also, if we want to spend some time in the landscape, the gear for camping too. The Outdoor Show, now in it’s 11th year, obviously realise   [ read ]

Web Design with WordPress

We started our series on web design recently and it’s about time we continued. We’re going to take a look at something that a lot of people have been asking recently and that is ‘Wordpress for photographers websites’. I’ve been   [ read ]

Curves for Saturation and Contrast

We’ve talked previously about curves of various sorts and how to manipulate contrast and we touched on the relationship between curves and saturation. In short, increasing the slope of a curve also increases the saturation at that point in the   [ read ]

Why do People Photograph?

“Why do we make photographs?” It seems such a simple question. But when I started to think about it I realised that actually it’s quite a big question and one that few of us have a fully conscious understanding of.   [ read ]

A Ramble in Wales

Fascination is a good place to start in my art. It comes from the Latin for a spell and quite appropriately describes the feeling of wonder which beckons me to stop and admire something beautiful or intriguing. It gets around   [ read ]

More ‘Books from Beyond Words’

This week we’re featuring two books from Beyond Words, Sam Abell’s ‘Seeing Gardens’ and Peter Niedermeyer’s ‘Appearances’. Seeing Gardens – Sam Abell Sam Abell (http://samabell-thephotographiclife.com/) is part artist/part journalist. His work for the National Geographic puts him firmly in the   [ read ]