OK straight talk now - Sintra is a tourist trap. It is crowded and expensive and a day out there feels a bit like you are battling the hordes but you still HAVE to go. Sintra is home to a long list of

While growing up in the British countryside I often heard how much people "hated London" - too dirty, too crowded, too expensive, people are rude and so on. This mentality never sat well with

I've created this community as a space to showcase the work of the many wonderful long exposure photographers on Steemit. This community is for original content only, if you didn't shoot it, don't post

I've created this community as a space to showcase the work of the many wonderful landscape photographers on Steemit. This community is for original content only, if you didn't shoot it, don't post it!

I won't apologise for featuring a bridge and a colourful sky again on my blog. However, the Humber Bridge, by contrast to the Town Bridge in Stamford used to hold the record for being the longest single-span

If the tiny county of Rutland in the east of England had a symbol it would probably be Normanton Church. During the construction of Rutland Water the church was scheduled to be demolished as a large part

Not so long back I entered a panoramic photo of Paris into @axeman's cityscape photography contest. Just visible on the left of the photo on the opposite bank of the Seine is my favourite Parisian landmark

I live near the large estuary on the right side of the UK called The Wash. It's pretty much the broadest estuary in England and the coasts are far enough apart to be barely visible from the opposite side.

This is my entry for Day 4 of the Flower Power photo contest organised by @flamingirl click on the image to view full screen In my mother's garden there is a stone planter full of lavender that buzzes

This is my entry into the Cityscape Photo Contest run by @axeman and sponsored by @partiko The highest vantage point from which to view the city of Coimbra, Portugal is the University clock tower. It's

I had a notification that I'd reached my first year birthday here on Steemit. It seems to me like time has flown by during the crypto winter of 2018 and we might see green shoots in 2019. Here are some

I have no objections to a 5.30am start to capture the dawn. Being up in time to see the sunrise means that even if conditions aren't entirely favourable at the beginning of the shoot, the coming daylight

This is my entry for the Sea Photography Contest organised by @marc-allaria click on the image to view full screen Sometimes I don't mind so much making a "technical" error if it captures the

This is my entry into the Cityscape Photo Contest run by @axeman and sponsored by @partiko This is the view from the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, looking southeast towards the Tour Montparnasse and

I only keep a year's worth of work at a time in Lightroom and compress and back up everything else to an external drive. I also never throw a raw file away so there's always a time in January where I have

Despite my love for landscape and seascape photography, the subject I shoot the most of out of anything would be my own children. I'm no different to any other parent of this generation, snapping away

The Portuguese are particularly fond of roast chestnuts (castanhas assadas) at this time of year - someone will be selling them on street corners everywhere and the air will be filled with the smoke and

This is my entry for this week's landscape/seascape photography contest organised by @axeman and sponsored by @block-lotto and @drakos Summer in England's fields click on the image to view full screen

It's interesting how editing a photograph in black and white is a completely different process to editing in colour. When I edit a colour photo my main concern is getting my palette right - are the blues

This is my entry for this weeks landscape/seascape photography contest organised by @axeman and sponsored by @block-lotto and @drakos Baleal Peninsula, Portugal click on the image to view full screen More