My first "photo" is almost certainly my wife when I got my dSLR 18 months ago! Not exciting!

Dave, things might get a bit more exciting for you if your wife ever gets to see this forum.

I enjoyed this one Mike. Not many people would have spotted a photo op in such an unlikely subject. Thanks for sharing. Thanks, Nina. Whilst I cannot recall any specific images, at the time of shooting I was aware that this sort of thing has been done before, as a quick search on Flickr using the s...

Is it mono or just a particularly B&W scene? It was a very monochromatic scene, with the aluminium chairs against a dark background, which was darker than usual through being wet. However, I did convert the image into mono using Silver Efex Pro 2, which I find to be very effective at giving a g...

My daughter graduated earlier this year and as she will be continuing the research on the topic of her thesis at the university, she had a number of people to see after the ceremony. As we were travelling together, this meant that there were a couple of hours to wait which were spent in the cafe on ...

Hi Nina Thanks for sharing. The technical quality of the images is stunning, given that taking pictures is your phone's secondary function. The aesthetic quality is without question, of course. :) The first is obviously a candid, but the three girls in the second shot must have been aware of you if ...

To be correct, it is the first photo which I can remember taking, but I thought that it would be an appropriate anecdote for my first entry on this forum. My interest in photography began when I was about 5 or 6 and used to "help" my dad print photos in his darkroom. I was fascinated by se...