- untouched 13
- featured photographer 7
- Photo library management 6
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) 5
- Essential IT Skills 4
- photo sharing 4
- Camera Settings 3
- Post Production 3
- camera technique 3
- iPhone 3
- Monthly Themes 2
- Software 2
- composition 2
- photographers 2
- Camera Controls 1
- Flickr 1
- General Interest 1
- Photobook 1
- Photography Thoughts 1
- challenges 1
- gallery 1
- meetings 1
Featured Photographer Don McCullin
The RPS Honorary Fellow remembers a haunting Sunday Times Magazine cover image taken during the Tet Offensive. Link to RPS Journal Extra.
Featured Photographer - Morag Forbes
Inspired by a recent RPS workshop, this post explores the boundary between traditional photography and digital art through the lens of urban composite artist Morag Forbes. Take a look at her standout collection, Layers of the City, and join the discussion in the comments.
Finding My Photos
Years of photography—and hundreds of recent macro images—have made finding the right photo increasingly difficult. I explore how AI-powered search in Excire Foto could help organise my local archive and why I’m considering a move away from Lightroom.
Google Identities
How to find your Google account name to make it easier to connect to WGPC club folders.
Featured Photographer: Lee Frost
Discover Lee Frost’s black and white London photography, where precise compositions, long exposures and beautifully controlled tones turn familiar landmarks into striking images. Inspired by a recent club presentation, we explore what his work can teach us about planning, patience and finding the right viewpoint.
Staying safe online: five practical steps for WGPC members
Staying safe online matters to photographers too. Drawing on experiences at WG, this article shares five practical ways to protect your email, photographs and personal information: strong passwords, two-step verification, regular backups, software updates and password managers. Simple steps to help WGPC members use the internet with greater confidence.
WGPC photo sharing: returning to Google Photos
WGPC will return to using Google Photos as its preferred photo sharing platform. We will change our method slightly:
Create your own album for sharing in your own Google Photos Account.
Share your album with Vic who will make your photos available to all club members.
This blog contains guidance.
Restoring History: AI Tools vs. Traditional Editing
Can AI help restore treasured old photographs? A rediscovered album of Second World War pictures from Egypt provided an opportunity to compare Photoshop’s AI tools with traditional editing. AI improved contrast but also invented vehicles, people and other details—even when instructed to preserve historical accuracy.
Careful manual adjustments produced a more faithful restoration, while AI proved useful in identifying the location.
The Batters
A photographic walk through The Batters, a small Corsham woodland shaped by railway construction and later used by the Scots Guards for trench-warfare training during the First World War. These black-and-white images explore how its uneven ground, steps and handrails still seem to echo the landscape’s layered history.
Exploring Ultra Macro
When trial and error wasn't enough, engineering had to take over. Why photographing a 1 cm beetle turned into an exercise in microns, focus stacking and precision movement.
Upload Folder July
View of the upload folder in Flickr for July. This is an experiment looking at different ways to view the photos we are sharing.
Can AI make us better photographers—or merely more conventional?
Adobe’s Project Indigo is testing an AI feature that critiques photographs and suggests ways to reshoot them. It could be a valuable learning tool—but if its advice favours established photographic conventions, might it discourage the experimentation and rule-breaking from which creativity often emerges?
AI fun - still to video, not yet perfect.
AI can now turn a single still photograph into a three-second video. I tried Lightroom's new AI feature on a rowing scene and a building to see how convincing the results were. The animations are impressive at first glance, but a closer look reveals some amusing mistakes. See the videos and decide for yourself!
Scam Watch – Fake McAfee Renewal Emails
Some WG owners have received convincing-looking emails claiming that their McAfee antivirus subscription has expired. They are phishing scams designed to steal personal or payment details. Learn how to recognise the warning signs, safely report these emails to the National Cyber Security Centre, and avoid becoming a victim.
Getting to Know Flickr
Flickr is now the Wadswick Green Photography Club’s online gallery for sharing and enjoying members’ photographs. To make getting started as easy as possible, I’ve produced four short illustrated guides covering everything you need to know in this first stage.
The guides explain why we’ve chosen Flickr, how to create a free account, how to upload your first photograph, and how to enjoy the Club Gallery. Remember, uploading directly to Flickr is only one way of sharing your photographs with the club. If you prefer, you can continue to send your photographs to me using Google Photos, email, AirDrop or another method, and I’ll add them to the Club Gallery for you.
The aim isn’t to become a Flickr expert—it’s to enjoy photography and make it easy for us to share our work with one another. Future guides will introduce commenting, favourites, Flickr Groups and other features as members become more confident.
WGPC Photo Sharing Trial – New Dropbox & Flickr Workflow
WGPC is trialling a new Dropbox and Flickr workflow for photo sharing and constructive criticism. The aim is to simplify uploads, preserve full image quality and metadata, reduce technical frustrations and improve long-term archiving while keeping photography rather than IT at the centre of club activity.
Stop Scrolling – Start Searching
A simple tip that can save a lot of frustration: instead of hunting through screens for apps that have moved or changed, use your iPhone’s search function—or even Siri—to find them instantly.
Geo-tagging My Photographs –
Geo-tagging is an often overlooked feature of digital photography that quietly adds long-term value to our images. While it is impossible to recover location data from old film photographs, modern workflows make it easy to embed this information automatically at the point of capture. By using a simple connection between camera and smartphone, I have been able to eliminate a previously cumbersome process and ensure every image now carries a record of where it was taken—making my archive more searchable, meaningful, and future-proof.
My Upgrade!
Before upgrading your camera, consider mastering the advanced autofocus features you already have—modern mirrorless systems are powerful but require understanding to get the best results.