Photography articles & Tips

Here you can read and browse all my articles, tips and tutorials

In my blog you’ll find a variety of articles about photography with tips, tutorials, stories and latest information about me and my workshops.

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Fogbow
A rare phenomenon

Read the fascinating story of how I photographed this rare event and how the subsequent image went viral in the world media.

Kase K9 Filters
review

After using Kase Filters extensively on several photography trips around the world, I have written a full Kase Filters review and comparison.

Photographing
Lofoten in winter

In these two videos I take you to six wonderful locations in Lofoten and explain how I composed the photos I took and show you the final images.
Melvin Nicholson Photography
Iceland

The Weight of Expectation – Seven Days in Iceland

Two days from now I shall be enjoying my first day of seven in Iceland (Thursday 11th February 2016). It’s a place that I have wanted to visit for a number of years now and even more so these last couple or so mainly due to the sheer numbers of images I have seen on various Facebook groups.

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Sunrise, Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Isle of Skye

The Skye’s the Limit

The Volvo estate was crammed full of camera equipment and personal possessions and there was a seven and a half hour journey ahead of us from Preston in Lancashire to Portree on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

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My 2015 Top Ten Images - Melvin Nicholson Photography
Images

My 2015 Top Ten Images

So without further ado, here is my 2015 Top Ten Images. It was a seriously difficult decision to whittle down the many thousands of images that I have captured, both during the workshops and private tuition days that I run in the presence of my clients but also when out with friends or even shooting solo.

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Sunrise at Silbury Hill, Wiltshire
Workshops

A Weekend Workshop in Wiltshire

As landscape photographers, we are always on the hunt for that elusive image, that perfect shot that in reality does not exist. We travel the length and breadth of the country in the pursuit of finding THE next magical location.

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Pilling Pottery, Lancashire
Exhibitions & Events

Pilling Pottery; New Exhibition Now On

New exhibition of my work now on at Pilling Pottery, near Knott End in Lancashire One of the goals that most landscape photographers have at the top of their list is to have their work exhibited in a quality establishment.

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Steve Messam and Melvin Nicholson Photography
Lake District

The Red PaperBridge – Lake District

I discovered earlier in the week on Facebook, a photo that someone had posted that showed a packhorse bridge that had been created out of 22,000 sheets of red paper which was located over a beck in the Lake District. I was curious. I did some digging.

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