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What compact camera should I buy?

Ask most professional photographer what is the most frequent questioned asked of them by their customers, friends and family and I can guarantee it is something along these lines:

“I am going on holiday next week and can you recommend a camera” From this I have to deduce that you are happy to leave the iPhone to more basic snaps, but I need to ask a series of questions, to be sure the advice we give you will be useful.

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40 years behind the camera at Charles Ward Photography

Where has the time gone? It only seems like yesterday when I gave up a secure job, drove up to Pelling and Cross in London and bought some photographic gear to launched Charles Ward Photography (CWP). I remember asking my Father if I could borrow a space in the corner of one of the farm barns for a makeshift studio. “How long do you want it for?”enquired Father. “Oh, about 6 weeks” I hastily replied. It was 1985 and 40 years later, I am still in the same barn shooting away!

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Living with a Cavernoma.

The consultant delivered her diagnosis with trepidation; ‘You are what we term as CUP’… ‘What is that?” I asked. “Cancer, unknown primary', she continued. ‘You have brain cancer, suspected liver cancer and an unknown primary, hence it is what we terms as CUP” I took a slurp of cold tea. “That’s OK”, I said, feeling rather more sorry for the consultant than myself at that moment. “I’ve had cancer before and I know what it is like”

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The day that Elon Musk was ‘murdered’ in an English castle

The photographic assignment was quite simple: I would be photographing a 30th birthday party for a number of wealthy Americans and it would end with a ‘murder mystery’ twist later that evening. I was briefed that the birthday boy was called Elon Musk (it didd’t mean anything to me back in those days) and he would be the one to be ‘murdered’ at the end of the party. I should not miss this photo opportunity!

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Imageview - Digital Asset Management

You will all know the saying: ‘don’t try to re-invent the wheel’ and I was beginning to think that, by commissioning our own software, I had not only tried to build the equivalent of new wheels, but also a new chassis and an engine in software terms! It was now 2001 and new websites were starting to appear, so I became aware of a company called Picturepark ™ in Switzerland, who had developed a superb looking DAM system. I always think good design is such an important element of software and that is probably why so many of us love the Mac GUI (general user interface) We spend so much time on our computers and I hate to see badly designed icons, thumbnails and boring fonts.

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