New Website on Squarespace

I finally made the leap and moved my website (davedickson.photography) to Squarespace. I’m no coding genius but I was quite pleased with my efforts using Dreamweaver to construct my own photography website two years ago. But, having made the change, I’ve come to the realisation that I was not being very effective in the use of my time. In designing the new website, I’ve made changes in minutes that would have taken me hours in Dreamweaver, mainly because I wasn’t sufficiently skilled or knowledgeable.

Making the decision to concentrate on photography and not on web design was one I should have taken some time ago. The new site has images, projects I’m working on and my photo development blog. Please have a look around the site and come back and see how it develops. Comments are always welcome too.

Meeting some heroes !

Last weekend was a bit special. On Friday I collected Adam Gibbs from Gatwick and on Saturday we journeyed north to the Lake District to the Northern Photography Show. I got to see Tom Heaton and spent an evening with Simon Baxter and even met the famous Meg. Adam and I also spent an evening photographing at Lodore Falls with Paul Thomson, a local photographer and YouTuber.

Adam and I concentrated on the Borrowdale area of the Lakes, the weather was (untypically for Cumbria) too glorious but I think he had a good time. He managed to make a v-log and you can see the results by clicking on the link.

Having spent some quality time with an experienced and talented photographer, there are two things I find worthy of comment. Firstly, is how he struggles like the rest of us to find an image, but secondly how he sees a composition in all the clutter of a landscape. It was an object lesson to me in how hard you have to work to get good images and how training your eye to ‘see’ a composition is such a vital skill.

I hope to meet up with Adam again in the future because he was excellent company but in the meantime there are skills to practice and things to reflect upon.