Hurry Up and Wait
Some photographers plan their shots with military precision. Not me. Mine happen because I stayed, wandered, watched, waited, and accepted what the day brought me. Sometimes rain. Sometimes nuffin. Somehow, always light.
MJ
How I use AI
How I use AI in my photography, writing, and website-building. Not as a replacement for my voice, but as a tool for distance, structure, and saving the occasional bin fire.
The view after ‘The View’
I went for the famous view. Obviously. Then I found the gravel roads, pylons, and anglers. And perspective that felt like mine.
The Small Dark Shape
The Elephant Seal. A small dark shape in the water.
Gatecrashing the Rock Pool Creche
One Fur Seal pup, clearly doing important field research for the Department of Bad Ideas, kept inching towards the gatecrasher in the rock pool.
Hiroshima
A quiet walk through Hiroshima, trying to make sense of the weight of a place that is both bustling modern city and unbearable history. With a hug.
Huffy Puffins
A puffin disagreement, a possible romantic scandal, and an entire cliffside audience behaving as though someone had shouted “fight!” in a school playground.
The Joy of Small Seals
Over four months at Cape Palliser, I kept returning to the fur seal pups in the rockpools. At first they scattered whenever I arrived. Then, slowly, they forgot about me and returned to the important business of bubbles, seaweed, tiny teeth, ambushes, and small wet chaos.
Puffins in the Long Light
For four evenings, I drove out to Látrabjarg in search of puffins and found only wind, burrows, and nuffins. On the fifth evening, the cliffs were suddenly full of them; calm, golden, unhurried. I had the quiet privilege of sitting among them for a while.
Part III | The Disciplines of the Faithful
The settings I use beyond shutter speed and aperture, attempting to demystify RAW vs JPEG, white balance, focus modes, exposure modes, and more, in a camera-agnostic way.
Part II | The Holy Trinity of Light: How to Prioritise
How I learnt to move to manual camera settings by controlling the Exposure Triangle: The holy trinity of aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.
Part I | My Simple “Go To” Camera Settings
My set and forget camera settings. Simple, reliable, and designed to help me avoid fiddling, to stay focused on what I see.
How I work | My Gear
How I found a photography setup and gear that supports my autistic brain and flow. And why the best tools are the ones that fit the way I see and feel.