Warm Light, Cold Water.

Once again Winter has established itself in the UK. Whilst everyone complains about the snow & ice etc, I wonder how many people actually appreciate the fact that the conditions can contribute in an aesthetic kind of way. Now most people will probably say “yes, it’s very picturesque” but how many will appreciate the combination

How to start the day… in Winter

Well, Winter has arrived here in the UK and if our media are to be believed, it’s not just any old Winter; but the return of the Ice Age! Now anyone who was up at 5:30am this morning and out by 6:15am would know that it was cold. In fact it was about -7 o

Does anyone actually know what pumpkin tastes like?

It may be just me, but here in the UK the only time we see anything to do with pumpkins is around Halloween; and even then it’s not really to do with food. It’s not even as though there’s a traditional dish that’s eaten on 31st October (or at least I’m not aware of one).

If Man Was Meant to Fly.

“If man was meant to fly, the Lord would have given him wings”; or so the saying goes. Well man didn’t get wings, by either divine or evolutionary means, but what he did get was engineering. One of the many results of which is aviation and some fine examples of it can be seen at

What Academics Do With Their Dead Wood…

Mention “getting rid of the dead wood” to most people in the context of an organisation or company, it is normally taken to mean job losses & cut backs etc (rather topical at the moment here in the UK!). Now we all know that Oxford University is a centre of excellence in the world of

Remote Control Wildlife

Two new things for me: photographing wildlife & remote triggering my camera (ok, so the wildlife wasn’t that wild). This little fellow had been frequenting our garden for a while and had sort of got used to us etc. He wasn’t quite comfortable being close enough to get a good shot of though, seeing as

A light surprise…

Thought I’d try something a bit new: using the sun as a back light & my SB900 as the main subject light. Obviously it’s a well known, tried & trusted technique but I’ve not really had much opportunity to do much with it. So when we decided to meet earlier (6:30am instead of 7:30am) for

Back on the web…

The website is live once again following a bit of an overhaul.  I’m also planning some further web presence i.e. Facebook fan page, but for now: http://www.timwilcox.net  – check it out. I’m also on Twitter but that’s mainly to announce updates to the website etc.

To Pose or Not To Pose? … that is the question being posed!

 So should your subject pose or not? Does catching someone unaware make for a more natural, less contrived image? I’m guessing that the jury is still out, and will be for a long time, on that one. To be honest I don’t really know myself. I certainly don’t like anything that looks too staged but