Stephen Mills Photography

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!

I have often thought about how nice it would be to fully immerse myself into a photography project and produce a body of work on one theme or of one particular location.

I really like the idea of getting to know a small area really well. Spending the time to explore it thoroughly, getting to know the landscape intimately, visiting at different times of the day and at different times of the year to explore how the seasons and light at different times of the year interact with the landscape and the wildlife within that landscape

Christmas has been and gone, the New Year’s resolutions have been made (and broken) and we’re now slowly getting back into the swing of normal life again.

The shiny new DSLR that you got for Christmas is still sitting in its box, having only been out a couple of times since the big day.

So 2018 was a bit of a mixed bag for me. I had some amazing experiences – Wild camping alone on Haystacks was one of the many highs of 2018!

However with my fractured foot, which all but stopped my photography for several months in the summer, 2018 had some real low points in it as well.

In the early part of 2018 I began a YouTube channel with the idea of documenting my photography trips and sharing my experiences whilst out on location.

I had just started really getting into it when I fractured my foot and everything stopped!

But now I’m back on my feet again, I thought it was about time I returned to my YouTube channel.