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Finistère Insolite

Finistère Insolite

A photographic exploration of the wild and beautiful landscapes of Finistère, Brittany, France.

2019

Steve Mansfield-Devine

Steve Mansfield-Devine

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Photographic art in the Instagram age

When everyone is taking and sharing pictures of the world around them, what sets the photographic artist apart — if anything?

Nov 15

Semi-abstract photograph of a white symbol of a walking person painted on the asphalt surface of a road, plus a painted white line.

Nov 15

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Art and Alt text: photographs for blind people

You can help blind and partially sighted people get the most rewarding experience from your photographs — with benefits for you, too.

Oct 26

A sombre and perhaps menacing photograph showing deliberately out of focus and silhouetted figures in a corridor seen through an in-focus window with part of the frame visible on the left. Blue-tinted monochrome image.

Oct 26

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Pushing the bounds of photographic composition

Photography has many rules when it comes to composition — all of which are worth breaking. Or perhaps ignoring.

6d ago

Photograph of a park with flowering trees and brightly coloured flowers. The ground drops away to the left. On the right of the image, hard against the edge of the frame, we see a man wearing a jacket, viewed from behind.

6d ago

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Analogue tales: the Observer darkroom

The Observer newspaper, like many leading publications, prides itself on its excellent photography. Which is why, once upon a time, the…

Nov 20

Black and white photograph of a bearded man wearing spectacles holding up and examining a strip of 35mm film.

Nov 20

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What digital photographers can learn from the analogue world

Even if all your cameras are digital, there are approaches used by people who shoot on film that can have benefits for your work.

Nov 8

Photograph of two vintage propeller-driven aircraft flying close together towards the camera against a blue sky. At the bottom of the frame we see part of a desert landscape, telling us the aircraft are flying very low.

Nov 8

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Operation Dragon Hammer

A NATO exercise involving 50 warships and a rag-tag bunch of journalists — what could go wrong?

Nov 5

Photograph of a jet fighter aircraft, with landing gear and tailhook down, silhouetted against the sky and shimmering sea in the warm light of evening.

Nov 5

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The compulsive photographer

Do you feel that the world barely exists until you photograph it? You might have an obsession. The question is whether that’s a bad thing.

Oct 30

A somewhat abstract photograph in which the shadow of the photographer’s head and shoulders falls on the bonnet of a white car and the Mercedes hoot ornament.

Oct 30

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Bertuch’s Garden

The creeping commercialisation of Wordpress

The famous blogging platform is still free — but increasingly less so.

Oct 27

The creeping commercialisation of Wordpress

Oct 27

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About CameraLux

CameraLux is about the art of photography, which means a lot of different things to different people. And it’s that diverse range of…

Oct 24

A photograph of a man standing on a beach holding a camera above his head to take a picture of the waves in the background. The outgoing tide has left the sand mirror-like so it is reflecting the man and the blue of the clear sky.

Oct 24

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How photography makes the ordinary extraordinary

People, objects or scenes in a photograph must be important, otherwise why did you take the picture?

Oct 23

A photograph of an old, battered fire hydrant, mostly red, whose three attachment points give it a vague resemblance to a face. In the background is a wooden wall.

Oct 23

Steve Mansfield-Devine

Steve Mansfield-Devine

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Freelance photographer and writer. Author of photography books and two novels. Journalist during daylight hours. More at: https://linktr.ee/zolachrome

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