Why I moved my website to SquareSpace

Why I moved my website to SquareSpace

If you’re reading this it means you’re on my new website so I hope you find it, a) easy to navigate b) responsive and c) that it looks good.

So, before I get into this I wanted to let you know that at the time of writing I’m not, in anyway, sponsored, affiliated or connected with SquareSpace. The reason/s I’ve made the move and feel compelled to let you know are purely personal because I figure if you’re really pleased with a product or service, then you should let others know.

With that said, here’s a little bit of history…

History

For a number of years, in fact pretty much ever since I started out, my main website had

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Photography saved me during the Covid 19 Pandemic Restrictions

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Photography saved me during the Covid 19 Pandemic Restrictions

It’s fair to say that the Covid 19 Pandemic has affected each and every one of us in one way or another; be it with the loss of a loved one, a friend, or how the restrictions placed upon us have affected our everyday lives.

I can only talk about how it’s affected me, or rather how it could have affected. Now I say ‘could have’ because I know what I’m like and I know, that even with no pandemic to contend with, I’m the kind of person that gets restless and agitated if I’m not constantly working on something new.

As a Portrait Photographer, pre March 2020 it was easy. I had portraits to take and I had my 39-45 Portraits Project which in all honesty, I’m happy to say

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EASY Colour Grading HACK in Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop

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EASY Colour Grading HACK in Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop

If there’s one thing that has a BIG impact on your recognisable style, it’s how you colour grade your images.

There are so many ways to do this and a lot of the time it boils down to personal preference, however, imagine if there was a really easy way to take the colour from your favourite movie or tv programme and add that into your pictures!

Well, here’s a hack that I worked out to do exactly that with just one click!

The technique first of all makes use of Adobe's

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Mark 'Billy' Billingham (SAS: Who Dares Wins)

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Mark 'Billy' Billingham (SAS: Who Dares Wins)

Back in May 2019 I was at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon, Wiltshire photographing and filming Mark Billy Billingham (former UK Special Forces and star of TV’s SAS: Who Dares Wins and Who Dares Wins Australia) whilst he was on his ‘An Audience with…’ tour.

Having met up with ‘Billy’ early in the afternoon, we set up on the stage hours before the audience streamed in to take some portrait and promo shots as it was shortly before his first book The Hard Way was released…

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Ford Mustang Photo Shoot (Behind the Scenes)

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Ford Mustang Photo Shoot (Behind the Scenes)

Seeing as I’ve revamped my website and also tidied up previous blog posts, I just wanted to make sure I included this one from early in 2020 when I spent a day with one of my closest friends, Brian Dukes, and photographed his incredible Ford Mustang.

We photographed it on a former airfield which saw action during World War 2, and is now owned by another great friend of mine Tom as it forms part of his farmland.

You’ll see in the video below, how I lit the image and that was by taking a serious of photographs with a flash positioned at different parts of the car; these images were

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The Invisible Black Background

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The Invisible Black Background

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been putting a lot of time into not just revamping my website, but moving it to a completely new hosting platform (thank you SquareSpace). I’m going to be writing a post about why I’ve done this, but needless to say I am VERY happy I finally made the (much needed) move.

Anyway, as part of the moving process I connected my Google Analytics account to the new site and what was really interesting to see was that ‘Invisible Black Background’ was still ranking high up there as one of the search terms used by folks and that lead them to my site. If you didn’t know, ‘Invisible Black Background’ refers to a photograph technique I named and that was featured in the New York Times, and is basically a way to make it look as though

Remembering a Dear Friend (Squadron Leader Allan Scott DFM) and Celebrating his 100th Birthday

Remembering a Dear Friend (Squadron Leader Allan Scott DFM) and Celebrating his 100th Birthday

Sad that today is not as it should have been with us celebrating the 100th Birthday of our dear friend, Squadron Leader Allan Scott DFM.

Were Allan with us, today we would have been heading to Biggin Hill Aerodrome to see him again flying his beloved Spitfire; instead, we will spend today with Allan firmly in our thoughts

© Glyn Dewis 2025