Glynn Hobbs - imageweaver

We have all seen those amazing, silky beach scenes, or smooth white waterfalls, cascading down a rock face. They look very professional and difficult to shoot, but it’s actually quite simple to shoot moving water. The trick is to find the right water to shoot and practice your technique. The basic foundation for successful flowing water images, especially waterfalls, is choosing the right location for the shot. Waterfalls are notoriously difficult to access, because they are mainly found in rugged terrain. Be careful when choosing your location; by definition, they are surrounded by wet, slippery vegetation and often with loose stones, or unstable ground. It’s much better to approach a waterfall from below than from above; look for a route down near the water. Locations surrounded by trees, can be very dark, so by watching the light, you may find there is a perfect time for shooting. To start with, to be truly creative you will need to move away from using your automatic...

The incredible Bee-fly Bee-flies are a Family of flies (Bombyliidae) that have stout, furry bodies.  Most species of bee-fly have a long, thin proboscis extending in front of the body. Bee-flies are true flies and belong in the sub-order Brachycera but their furry appearance makes them look a little like bumblebees and this is how they get their name.  Unlike bees, which have four wings, bee-flies have only two that they hold out at an acute angle when they settle, like a tiny delta-wing aircraft.  Bee-flies are perfectly harmless. Adult bee-flies measure around 1 cm in length and feed on nectar, using their long proboscis to sip nectar from flowering plants whilst hovering in front of the flower - rather like a humming bird. Bee-flies are very agile and often hover near flowers before darting quickly away and then returning to hover again. These amazing little insects resemble Hummingbirds in the way that they hover in front of flowers whilst u...

Always a challenge to get a shot through the catchfencing! Starting grid for the Bugatti race, - This great event is televised in France. First staged back in 1939, the Circuit des Remparts classic car race is held on the third weekend each September. The weekend-long events sees classic cars hurtling around the ancient, twisting roads of the pretty French hill-top town of Angouleme. The Angouleme track hasn’t changed since that first race, and is one of the very few motor races to take place within the walls of a town, making the Circuit des Remparts a classic car race not to miss! The course itself is very demanding, twisting around the Angoulême ramparts and containing two right-angle bends and three hairpins. The weekend starts on the Friday evening with a magnificent Concours d'Elegance staged in the centre of the old town and regularly attracts an audience of 5000 onlookers, all eager to see a wide range of superb vehicles, covering all ages of motoring. ...

Earlier in 2018, I was lucky enough to spend a week in Kintyre (Argyll & Bute).  Kintyre is a peninsula in south west Scotland that extends for some 40 miles from the Mull of Kintyre in the south to Tarbert  in the north. The peninsula is never much more than ten miles wide and at Tarbert,  the land preventing the rest of Kintyre becoming an island is just a mile across. This is where West Loch Kintyre bites deeply into the peninsula and only just fails to meet East Loch Tarbert, around which Tarbert's harbour is built. The wide variety of wildlife to be found on Kintyre is quite simply breathtaking and my list of targets for the week included Seals, Otters, Gannetts, Puffins, Cormorants, Shags and of course, the Golden Eagle! My wife and myself rented a small cottage from the 'Landmark Trust' in 'Saddell Bay' (the location for the music video for Paul McCartney's ' Mull of Kintyre') . Located just yards from the beach, we arrived to find H...