Note: This article contains affiliate links. Sadly the last couple of days and weeks of this awful year didn’t get any better. As a huge Star Wars fan I was deeply saddened by the passing of Carrie Fisher. Other decisions that were made during this fateful year mean that my UK passport will soon be of a lot less use to me (don’t worry, I’ll try and keep the political stuff to a minimum)....

I still don’t think I’ve quite found my area yet. I really love shooting landscapes and nature but that kind of work is very dependable on factors I can’t control (yet?): The weather, the season and the location. For that reason I’m constantly looking for other things to shoot and gain knowledge in a different area. I’ve recently discovered something I think has worked out quite well: Food. I’ve built up a portable mini-studio that I can use in my living room and the results look promising to me....

I promised that I would keep you, dear reader, updated on my adventures in the world of microstock photography. So here I am, back with another review. The last time I had a look at Adobe Stock and today it’s time for Shutterstock. It’s been a few weeks since I set out and uploaded my images onto a number of different sites and I’ve made my first experiences, had my first sales and I have made mistakes....

My first post on exporting photos from Lightroom for use in Instagram has proven to be quite popular. Since that post, I’ve made some new experiences and have learnt a great deal more about both Lightroom and Instagram. I was thinking about updating said post but ended up completely rewriting it from the ground up, so here is my brand new and updated guide to exporting photos from Lightroom and importing them into Instagram....