With the average person taking 884 photos a year here in the UK, cameras play a huge role in our lives and camera insurance is definitely something we should all be thinking about. Whether you’re an amateur snapper or a professional shooter, you want to be sure your kit and camera are protected. But when […]

If photography is your business, then you’ll know how important camera insurance is. Camera-specific insurance is designed to help protect your equipment – and therefore your business, by providing a safety net so that you can focus on helping your clients get the service they need. With years of specialist camera insurance behind us, we […]

There are lots of famous photographers out there, but there’s something really special about nature photography; the world around us is constantly changing and nature photography reminds us that there is beauty everywhere. And in a time when we rely on technology for so much, it’s good to immerse ourselves in nature and feel a […]

There are a lot of different numbers involved in photography; megapixels, actuations, resolution, shutter speed – but what about shutter count? You might have heard this phrase a lot, but what does it actually mean, and why does it matter? We’re going to take a look at what it is, find out how you can […]

In an increasingly digital world where everything we see is curated; whether that’s the films we choose to watch on Netflix, or the posts we see on social media, and everything is available immediately, it’s easy to see why people are eager to experience something a bit more ‘real’. There’s been a real increase in […]

In a world dominated by social media, and with most people owning a smartphone, it’s easy to think that anyone can be a photographer. But being one involves so much more than just pointing a camera and taking a photo. Apart from needing to understand lighting and composition and knowing how to use digital technology […]

A picture paints a thousand words, but there are some photos that do more than this, and go on to define an era or shape popular culture. We’re taking a look at some of the most memorable and iconic photos ever taken. A Man on the Moon – Taken by Neil Armstrong in 1969 Neil […]

We’ve all been there; you’re out on an amazing cycling trip, the weather’s behaved itself, you’ve taken in some fantastic views, and you’ve enjoyed the ups as much as the downs. But then you get home, settle down to look at your photos and everything feels a bit…. flat? The photos on your screen just […]

People have been using photography to express themselves for nearly two hundred years, ever since Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first blurry photograph in the late 1820s. The old cliché that a camera doesn’t lie, comes from the fact that a photograph captures an image as it is, with no input from the photographer – […]

Whether you’re an amateur snapper who likes to dabble at weekends, someone who’s wanting to grow a photography business, or you’re an established photographer by trade, you’ve probably accumulated a fair bit of kit; not just cameras, but lenses, memory cards, chargers etc. and as we head into the time of year when we’re bombarded […]