Birmingham Living Magazine: Mark 'Billy' Billingham MBE - SAS Who Dares Wins

Recently I was contacted by Birmingham Living Magazine saying they’d recently interviewed Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham MBE (Former SAS and Star of TV’s SAS Who Dares Wins) for a featured article in an upcoming issue.

The magazine were getting in touch to see if they could get permission to use a couple of portraits that I’d taken of ‘Billy’ back in 2019 when we was on the Swindon leg of his Speaking Tour and when I was also filming content for the Tour Promo.

The original portrait that was taken on stage shortly before the start of the evening’s event…

Hanging out backstage before the main event…

Hanging out after the event for drinks and pizza with *(Left to Right)

Mark Llewhellin, Dave Clayton, Billy and Bear Grylls

Got a Drone? Live in the UK? WATCH THIS video by my friend @ianinlondon

The title says it all really…

If you live in the UK and you have a drone then please do watch this short video by my friend @ianinlondon ; it could potentially make a BIG difference to where you fly…

Complete the 1-Minute Survey: LINK

Ian’s YouTube Channel: LINK

Saddened that World War 2 Veteran Harry Billinge MBE has died

Not much I can add other than, yet again we have lost another of the Greatest Generation, Harry Billinge MBE aged 96 years.

I had the pleasure of meeting, photographing and knowing Harry thanks to my 39-45 Portraits Project.

A slight of a man with the heart of a lion and what was clearly a life mission to ensure that those he served with during World War 2 were never forgotten, in the fund raising he did for the Normandy Memorial.

R.I.P.

Lightroom Classic Update - December 2021

The December 2021 release of Lightroom Classic (version 11.1) provides support for new cameras, lenses, and bug fixes…

Supported Cameras Updated

Most notably, Lightroom now supports Raw processing of files from the new Sony A7IV

Supported Lenses Updated

CLICK HERE for the full list of newly supported lenses

BUgs / Issues Fixed

CLICK HERE for a fun list and explanation of fixes to identified bugs and issues.

Selections and Masking in Lightroom Mobile

Since Adobe Max a couple of weeks ago, the internet has literally been on fire with videos about the major update to Lightroom and Camera Raw with regards to selections and masking; never has there been a more appropriate time to use the phrase “Game Changer”.

But, am I the only person that didn’t realise until now that those exact same updates had been added into the Lightroom Mobile App which in itself is incredible, but even more so when you realise that the selections and masks sync with your desktop and web versions of Lightroom. Incredible!

Here’s a video I put together explaining exactly what I mean…

INCREDIBLE: Adobe reveals NEW Lightroom (and Camera RAW) Masking Feature

Incredible! There’s no other word for it!

Check out this short video from Adobe where they reveal what they’ve been working on in Lightroom, and that will be available to us all next month.

Oh and this is going to be made available in Lightroom across the board, so Lightroom Classic, Lightroom in the Cloud, Lightroom Mobile AND Adobe Camera RAW

Masking and isolating areas of an image like this really is the time to say … Game Changer.

Here too is a blog post by the Adobe Camera RAW Team with even more information…

Exciting times ahead and of course I’ll be recording some new videos going through the updates in ‘real world’

Cheers,
Glyn