Northern Lights Revisited

There's a thrill that you get from visiting a new location as a photographer for the first time: What am I going to find? Which...

Location Guide

Mike Page

Mar 156 min read

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Two (or Three) Things You Can Do Right Now To Improve Your Photography

For some reason that's presently obscure to me, most self-help articles tend to riff on odd numbers of things you can do. “The ONE thing...

Philosophy of Photography

Mike Page

Mar 138 min read

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Be Careful What You Wish For...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about the importance of previsualisation in photography, partly as a reaction against a YouTube...

Location Guide

Mike Page

Feb 164 min read

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How Important is Pre-Visualisation in Landscape Photography?

First off, what do I mean by pre-visualisation? Ansel Adams introduced the idea into the photographer's lexicon; a term he used to label...

Philosophy of Photography

Mike Page

Jan 126 min read

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Autumn Trip to Ticino and Bergell

One of the places that has been on my radar to (re-)visit for an autumn photography trip has been the southern Swiss Canton of Ticino....

Location Guide

Mike Page

Nov 12, 20248 min read

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Calendar 2025

Yesterday we finished the picture selection for the 2025 calendar. Some images that I thought were 'shoe-ins' - such as "Milky Way over...

Calendars

Mike Page

Nov 10, 20242 min read

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Tour du Mont Blanc - different States

I liken completing the Tour du Mont Blanc (TMB hereafter) to drinking 4-5* Maß (litres) of beer at the Oktoberfest a couple of years ago:...

Location Guide

Mike Page

Sep 21, 202415 min read

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A Night on the Breitenberg

When other photographers demurely shrug off praise by saying 'I was lucky to get this shot' I usually respond with my own bonhomie that '...

Astrophotography

Mike Page

Aug 13, 20247 min read

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ON1 Photo Raw Workflow

My tried and tested ON1 Photo Raw workflow

Editing

Mike Page

Jul 29, 20245 min read

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Calendar Photo Locations

I've been asked about the locations for the photos in the 2023 calendar. I don't think that any of the spots are super secret and so I've...

Mike Page

Feb 3, 20241 min read

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Care in Action Photo Calendar 2024

Normally I sell my calendars directly and donate all the profits to Doctors Without Borders, but when our good friend Janice asked us...

Calendars

Mike Page

Nov 12, 20231 min read

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Seiser Alm Revisited

What inspires you as a landscape photographer? Which spot(s) call to you in your dreams? For the last three years I've had a series of...

Location Guide

Mike Page

Nov 9, 202310 min read

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Calendar 2024 Finalised

The first run of "This Beauty That Surrounds Us... 2024" has been sent to the printers. 13 of my favourite images from the last 12...

Landscape Photography

Mike Page

Oct 11, 20231 min read

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A Weekend in the Appenzell Alps

Sitting on the terrace of the Gasthaus Aescher on Saturday morning I couldn't help but think of an article I wrote last year about how I...

Landscape Photography

Mike Page

Sep 7, 20236 min read

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The Photo that Took 1½ Years to Take

Sometimes photos take a little longer. I first saw an image of the chapel at the Wankerfleck (yeah, yeah, I know, stop giggling) a couple...

Astrophotography

Mike Page

Aug 27, 20237 min read

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The Secret to Great Photography (That the Experts Won't Tell You)

There are lots of (so-called) experts out there who promise to let you in on the One Secret to unlocking your potential as a great...

Philosophy of Photography

Mike Page

Jul 1, 202327 min read

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Wales Revisited - Back to the Roots

I remember the first camera I ever used - it was a little Kodak 110 back in the late 70s that I used in the back garden and on holidays,...

Location Guide

Mike Page

Jun 11, 202310 min read

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Winter on the Seiser Alm

When we were freshly married and relatively new to the freedoms of living in mainland Europe in our 20s, we were full of wanderlust and...

Location Guide

Mike Page

Feb 16, 20238 min read

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Prague Revisited

I. Don't. Like. Cities. As I dig deeper into my fifties, I've finally become better able to distinguish between what I'm supposed to...

Location Guide

Mike Page

Jan 26, 20238 min read

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A New Year, A New Start

It's the 4th January, so let me start with a (slightly) belated Happy New Year. I hope you are well as we look ahead to the next 12...

Mike Page

Jan 5, 20233 min read

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The Blog

Yes, yes, blogs are so 2010, I know. I was only 10 years behind the curve when I started...

Older blog entries can be found on my old Blogger site, the most recent ones are linked below

Ten (More) Below Zero

I think we're going to have to stop going to Norway in the winter. Last time a pandemic broke out. This time a war. This isn't a good track record. Nevertheless, we had a great week of...

Finding My Photographic Niche

We all have a photographic niche that is unique to us, an area where we can excel above all others. Yes, even you. You may not yet have the technical skills or equipment to exploit that niche, but...

Revisiting Old Haunts

I think we probably all have our favourite local places for photography. We're lucky where we are with my local little woodland and Lake Ammersee only 10 min away by car. One of my other go-to places...

The Mists of Winter

December deceived us. After a series of decent snowfalls through Advent we thought that we might see a white Christmas, or at the very least that we could get away to snow in the mountains over the holiday period. Unfortunately...