A friend of mine is really keen on photography and spends most of his spare time planning trips away to get new shots. He loves landscape photography and recently has noticed a lot of great photography coming out of Tasmania. Tasmanian photography is often characterised by dark and mysterious forest scenes and rugged and lonely mountain ranges. Now he has started planning a photography trip there and I have invited myself along. I am not a photographer myself, but I have to admit that the images coming out of there are very compelling and I’d like to see a few of those places for myself. In particular the forests. There are some great big trees in Tasmania, and the dark green rain forest, full of gnarled and crooked trees growing every which way are something I really want to see with my own two eyes. I’m sure my mate will get some great shots, but I like travelling with him, it’s never a fast pace which means you can really soak up the scenery.

Choosing someone to carry out your wedding photography in Scotland can be a daunting task because there are really talented individuals out there. So, here are some simple tips for choosing a great wedding photographer to make sure that your big day goes without a hitch.

First of all, check out their website. Most professional photographers have one now and they are easy to find thanks to search engines like google. Wedding photography in Scotland is a specialist task due to the changeable weather and, sometimes, the remote locations, that wedding are carried out in. Some photographers work better in the studio whereas others are more at home outdoors – however, a quick look at their website will soon reveal their style and give you a good indication of what they are capable of.

Next, ask to see their portfolio. Ask to see samples of different kinds of work, for example, portrait shots and outdoor shots. If they aren’t comfortable showing you a range of work then maybe they are a bit too specialist and not suitable for the rigors of a whole days shooting.

Finally, ask friends and family for recommendations. Just like any other business, wedding photography in Scotland is largely driven by word of mouth referrals. Happy customers are only too willing, usually, to recommend a good photographer and, lets face it, most of us know someone who has recently been married so it shouldn’t be too hard to get a few good recommendations.

Ultimately, of course, it will come down to personal preference but make sure that you do your homework so that the chances of anything going wrong are kept to a minimum. After all, most of us only get one take at our big day, and you don’t want to be sitting with the grand children years later without a nice set of photographs to show them.

All of you love your mothers so much that you would do anything to see her smile. None of you will ever be able to imagine your life without her. She is the pillar that you lean on for support. As mother’s day is approaching fast, you must be making plans to make her feel really very special. You must be juggling with a lot of mothers day gift ideas in your mind over and over again, but haven’t been able to reach a final decision. Getting your mothers portrait done is something to be thought about. There are a lot of online portrait sites to choose from and they give you details on the kind of portraits that can be done like a sepia, black and white, caricature, etc. You can get done in three weeks and it’s not very expensive too. This will surely bring a smile on your mothers face.

I am simply enjoying my Nikon 60mm lens. Honestly, I enjoyed it so much that I began to ponder why can’t all autofocus lenses work and feel as good as this one? Should user be forced to switch to manual focus all the time? This happens in the old 105mm Micro lens which is very good optically but not as good in the focusing department. I personally think that this is an excellent lens. This is not the new AF-S version but rather the old D version. I personally think that this lens is sharper than the 105mm lens although many people think otherwise. For close up and macro photography, this lens is simply faultless. It gives a reasonable working distance from your subject. This lens works well on full frame digital SLR format as well as it does with cropped sensor DSLR camera. You would need to get a 62mm UV filter to protect the front element of this lens.