Stephen Mills Photography

I’ve been a bit quiet from social media and blogging for a while.

There are several reasons for this, but the main reason being that I seem to be incredibly time poor at the moment!

I have been out with my camera a few times and captured some lovely images that I am so pleased with (including some experimental shots around the Scarborough coastline), but fitting in time to blog and up-date my social media has been really difficult.

Blog Post of the Month is a new segment on my blog where I will share a post from another blog that I’ve found interesting, entertaining or useful.

The posts in this segment won’t always be the most current, in fact they may even be a few years old, but as long as they are still relevant to photography today I’m happy to recommend them.

It sounds like a bit of a cliché doesn’t it - treat your smartphone like a “proper” camera - but bear with me on this one!

I am very keen to inspire anyone and everyone to get outside and enjoy the world around them. For me, I find that the best way to do this is to take my camera out and photograph the landscape – whether that be parkland close to my home, nearby woodlands, rivers and waterfalls, the beautiful Lake District Fells or other locations around the UK and further afield.

I came across an interesting article a couple of weeks ago, whilst I aimlessly scrolled through my Facebook feed, talking about a new health initiative in Shetland - for those of you reading from outside the UK, Shetland a small archipelago of islands around 100 miles off the North-East of the Scottish mainland.

The article was discussing a new initiative by NHS Shetland where GP’s are now able to “prescribe nature” to their patients.

In this new monthly segment to the blog, I will be talking about unusual pieces of kit that I keep in my camera bag.

Like many photographers, space in my camera bag is at an absolute premium and I don’t have enough room to take useless items, or pieces of kit that never get used, out with me.

As you probably all know by now, I am nothing if not persistent!

We often only get that magical shot that we’ve already got in our head if we persist, work the scene, come back time and again and often fail over and over. but eventually, with time, patience and a small element of luck, we get that shot - and boy does it feel good!