This month's Newsletter and blog review explores the balance between modern technology and personal pace. I look at how AI fits into our day-to-day workflows, how to align creativity with real energy, and why traditional photography practices keep evolving.

For my photography in 2027, Lightroom Classic and Lightroom increasingly look less like competing products and more like two parts of the same workflow.

The main message is to recognise long-standing patterns, understand what your work life quietly provided, and learn to organise retirement around the person you actually are.

Why I’m trying to separate the moment an idea appears from the moment I actually make the photograph One odd thing about photography is that having time to take photographs doesn't always mean having an idea. And having an idea does not necessarily mean having the time to do anything with it. I’ve become increasingly aware of that mismatch. Sometimes an idea comes to me at completely the wrong moment. I might be doing something around the house, sitting watching television, l

This image was machine generated by AI !!! AI is now spreading to all aspects of our life, and if you use a computer at home or work, you will find the 'Terms and Conditions' for all major software is now being updated to cover AI. Microsoft has just updated their T&Cs and added many references to AI tech in all its products. So AI use is one topic on many photographers' minds right now and how that affects them. On the one hand, it's a scary prospect, the end of creative Ph