I love to capture images of places I visit.
At the moment, I'm in the process of up-dating these pages, adding notes and images to some of the older ones, so please bear with me if some of them - like me - look a bit strange and dated.
For many years, I've used Nikon equipment for all but casual, family photographs. It has the capability of producing images way beyond my needs and abilities.
My final Nikon kit comprised a Z8, with the incomparable 24-120 f4 lens, along with the 50mm f1.8 and the old but trusted (and relatively light) 70-200 f4. However, many of my favourite images were taken on older cameras - a D810 and, before that, a D700 and D300.
In some respects, my landscape images are deliberately boring. I love a natural look and resist the fashionable temptation of very wide lenses, which emphasise the foreground and minimise distant objects. Okay, if you are at Horseshoe Bend on the Colarado, there may be no option if you want to capture everything, but mostly I like images that are within the 'normal' 28-120mm range - if I saw it like that, and loved it like that, then that's how I want to capture it.
Of course, it's not just the camera. Photography is based on the art of looking, and also depends on what you have to hand. So I have to confess that through 2024 and 2025, I'd been increasingly capturing images with my iPhone. Always in my pocket and therefore to hand.
Alas, with the coming of iPhone 17 Pro Max, I have finally taken the step of moving over to iPhone photography for my travel shots. With care - and within the limits of what is needed for social media, websites and the best of high resolution screens - that iPhone (especially shooting RAW and processing with Lightroom) is able to give me what I need with the minimum of hassle and weight.
I'll miss the heft of the Nikon gear, and the ability to push it to deliver in very poor lighting or extreme telephoto reach, and I have to accept that, beyond 200percent magnification the iPhone images start to fall apart, while the Z8 continued to show crisp detail. But for sheer convenience...
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