New Business Cards from Awesome Merchandise

Recently my best mate Dave Clayton designed a new logo for me that in his own words “was more up to date with you and what you’re doing these days” … and I love it.

I wrote an article showing it HERE

I’d been meaning to get some new Contact Cards made up that also included an easy way for folks to navigate to my YouTube Channel as more and more I’m being asked about it when out and about with my main camera OR my drone, taking photographs or filming on the coast.

So, using Dave’s new design I came up with this for the front…

and this is what I have on the back…

Clean, simple and includes everything that’s needed but with the new addition of a QR code that can be very easily and quickly scanned by holding your camera phone to it and then pressing the button that automatically appears; doing so takes you straight through to my YouTube Channel.

No need to write details down, no need to take a card. Quick and Easy.

The cards I had printed by Awesome Merchandise who are the very same folks that printed ALL of the graphics, stationary, invites, badges, contact cards etc… for my first exhibition of my 39-45 Portraits Project held at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock, Oxfordshire from November 2019 thru January 2020.

Highly recommended.

A New 'Me' means a New Logo

Over the past few years, mainly the Covid years, things have changed for me; in a good way. I’m a portrait photographer. That’s what I do. Covid though, forced me to look at other genres of photography to keep me active. Keep me creative and keep me motivated, whilst I couldn’t take portraits.

I very quickly fell in love with landscape and seascape photography. Being out in the open, having experienced a time when we were told we couldn’t be out in the open, is a gift. I’ve always loved the outdoors but maybe more now if that is possible. If I don’t get a picture, who cares. I’ve been outdoors. I’ve been exercising my mind. I’ve been creative.

Photograph by Heathcliff O’Malley

I’m doing way more video work. Mainly for my YouTube Channel. I love putting videos together gathering B-Roll using many and varied recording devices; GoPro Hero 10. DJI Pocket 2. My drone. Oh how I love my drones.

Talking of drones (because we were … right?) I’m not just using them for video. I’m using them for photography. The compositions. The angles. The location possibilities. It’s liberating. It’s exciting. Lots more of this to come.

With change in activity comes a new me; a change in how I’m seen and a big part of that is branding. My logo.

A few years ago my best mate: Graphic Designer, Author, Instructor, my brother from another mother, Dave Clayton created this for me…

It worked. It worked well in so many ways. It was totally me. The g and the d forming my shapely, smooth head, my eyes and my nose.

It was a logo that only a friendship when 2 people ‘get’ each other could have created.

Fast forward a few years. The change in activity. Much more being brought into the ‘mix’. Time for a logo update.

So many questions though.

What direction does it take?

Does it have a camera?

Does it have a drone?

Does it have a landscape?

How can it be ‘me’ ?

Actually…

Does it need a camera?

Does it need a drone?

Does it need a landscape?

“No” said Dave, “It just needs to be you. You do so much more now. Don’t let the logo limit what people ‘think’ you do. Your work and what you do speaks FOR you. Your logo speaks ABOUT you.

Remember our saying…Take what you do seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously”

This is what he did. The colours I can change depending on what the logo is on.

I bloomin’ LOVE IT!

It’s so far removed from my previous logo but it’s still so ‘Dave’ and it’s totally ‘me’

Love this Guy

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