Amateur Photographer

What a varied menu of delights we have for you this week! We lead with the winners of the Weather Photographer of the Year contest, which proves once again that there is no such thing as bad weather when it comes to photography. We feature a photogra

Hollie speaks to winners of Weather POTY, who share their tips Geoff interviews pro photographer Anouk Krantz about her project on cowboy culture Amy brings us a feature by Noelle Mason who creates cyanotypes of surveillance imaging AP’s expert on vi

PANASONIC has unveiled the Lumix TZ99 ‘travel zoom’ compact and the Lumix G97, a budget Micro Four Thirds hybrid camera. The TZ99 is a light update of the Panasonic Lumix TZ95/D, and comes with the same 30x optical zoom Leica DC lens (24-720mm equiva

AN AMUSING shot of a stuck squirrel by Italian photographer Milko Marchetti has been named winner of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2024. Milko’s image beat 9,000 other entries, the highest number in the awards’ ten-year history. ‘The c

COSINA has released the Voigtländer 28mm f1.5 Nokton Aspherical for Sony E mount. This fast manual focus lens has 10 elements in 8 groups, along with a 12-blade iris diaphragm for attractive bokeh, minimum focusing distance of 0.28m and all-metal len

NIKON has released new firmware (version 5.10) for its flagship mirrorless camera, the Z9. Aimed at pro movie makers, the updates include a new shutter mode, allowing the user to set the shutter angle to one of 15 steps between 5.6° and 360°. This el

We are a diverse bunch here at AP and don’t always agree on everything. Indeed, debate should be encouraged in photography. As Mao said, ‘let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend’ (not that editor Nigel should be compared

Email [email protected] Editorial Group Editor Nigel Atherton Deputy Editor Geoff Harris Technical Editor Andy Westlake Features Editor Amy Davies Technique Editor Hollie Latham Hucker Online Editor Joshua Waller Deputy Online Editor Jessica Miller

Google works fine if one knows how to use it. Photoshop Express, and sometimes Snapseed. I have a Samsung Galaxy, and the Gallery app has a very useful and quite powerful editing app. I used to use Snapseed, but haven’t needed it for a while now. I u

I’m a long-time amateur photographer, recording landscapes and family life, and it has provided great joy as a hobby. I have shared the memories with my children, making a book and archive for each. However, I think about my 80-100,000 general photog

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Apologies in advance for writing about one of my own pictures again this week, but it is pertinent, to me at least, for a couple of reasons. On the day I’m writing this it is Tina Turner’s birthday. She would have been 85 today. Happy birthday, Tina.