Autumn offers a great opportunity to capture contrasting colours, misty mornings and woodland scenes. With leaves scattered about the ground and the contours of the tree branches starting to show themselves, get out there and start taking photo’s!!

I had the great fortune of being invited to take photos of a friend wakeboarding. I did a bit of research beforehand and also learned a few tricks and tips on the day……

As Winter draws in it brings with it a whole new dimension to photography. Frost, fog, snow are all coming and I for one am looking forward to some (hopefully) great shots. Another great opportunity are the Winter sunsets and th ambient light that they bathe everything in…..

As well as being a good friend of mine and of FPR’s, Ron Dubin is an exceptional photographer and has inspired many of my own photo’s and I am sure, countless others. His first book, Bolivia – A Journey includes a fantastic collection of photographs and I have previously interviewed Ron about his experiences, for which the link can be found at the bottom of this article.

Running a website such as FPR you get to meet some fantastic photographers and friends, such as Jeff Byrnes. A passionate photographer with ever changing and experimental photography you cannot help but notice Jeff’s desire to constantly find new photo techniques and subjects and this is reflected in the beautiful execution of his work. I have wanted to interview Jeff about his photography for a while now and finally managed to earlier this week. I strongly recommend both a visit to his site and also a follow on Twitter (link at end of article). Cheers Jeff! ;0)

A few months ago I took some photos of my friends Subaru in HDR (link at bottom of article). We recently went on another quick outing to get some different style shots using glass, depth of field and reflection. These are the results (only 3, sorry!)

There are loads of video tutorials for photographer all over the web. A large number of these can be found on YouTube. I have selected a few from different areas which I found very useful….