There is a saying that ‘enough monkeys, given enough typewriters, could eventually produce the works of Shakespeare’.  That you are able to read this, assuming you actually exist, is due to just such a chain of accidental events, because this site went from concept to disarrayed reality during the evening of the 20th October 2009. An evening that, looking back, is a blur of random key clicks, and blindly stumbling through servers, hosts, and ftp clients (whatever they may be). If my luck holds, I might even get some meaningful content uploaded.

My motivation for this site is to bring together, and make accessible, the mass of tips and advice about photography, and post processing using Photoshop, that I have placed in various forums and flickr discussion groups over the years. Some of the techniques you’ll find here in the coming weeks and months do not appear in any books, but can make apparently difficult tasks remarkably easy.

The photography tips will be about taking control of light. After all, it is the single most important element in any photograph. Without it there would be no photograph, so why would you leave it to chance or waste your life waiting for the right light to appear?  The post-processing tips will make clever use of blend modes, and targeting techniques, to overcome difficult masking situations, and show you how to remove things like sharpening artifacts, halos and chromatic aberration.  You’ll kick yourself when you discover how easy it can be.

But before I can do any of this I have to unravel the mysteries of Wordpress.