A bit of a change today, I love painting as you all well know, however my love of the arts is much broader than brushes and paints. Photography has always held a facination for me. Over my life time this art form has undergone many amazing changes; notwithstanding in the last twenty or so years with the advent of the digital aspect. And now we have the amazing abilty of mobile phone photography. The quandry is to select the good from the not so good, then moveing forwards with what you feel is the good. Today I am looking at one way forwards with the digital aspect.

Firstly, I still work out the exposure and all that stuff with the old film method, it works and as far as I can see, it is hard to learn but cannot be improved on for excellency of results; it certainly in difficult situations give the most accurate results. But digital capture has now come of age and is far better than the old film ways and cheaper. The above photo of steps leading down to the harbours water edge in Lyme regis is a good example; old fashioned film style calculating, with digital capture. Notice that by using moderm photography methods, they blend wonderfully with the  ancient black and white image style. More about that another day.