Howzit all!Hope you're having a great day The Main Frame: Earlier this year, I was visiting a friend. One morning, she was making pancakes for her daughter, and I watched with complete fascination. She took out a recipe, a set of measuring cups, and all the ingredients. I watched her carefully scoop the flour into the cup, level it off with the back of a knife, measure the milk precisely, crack the egg, and then mix everything for exactly the amount of time the recipe told her to. For her,...
16 days ago • 3 min read
Howzit!I hope you’re doing well. I’ve been busy behind the scenes working on something exciting for the TPE Tribe — but before I share that, I wanted to ask you a quick question. If you want to take your photography to the next level in 2026 — to become more creative, more confident, and more intentional with your images — keep reading. I’ve been putting together a brand-new Photography Success Path (starting in December) specifically for members of the TPE Tribe.This Saturday, I'll share...
26 days ago • 1 min read
Howzit all! I’ve just returned from a fortnight in the U.S., spending most of my time exploring photography and catching up with a few people from the TPE Tribe in D.C. Those conversations, plus a lot of walking with a camera, clarified something about my own work: over the last decade, I’ve been quietly shaping a style. Not in a lab coat, not with a grand plan, but just by trying to make photographs that feel right. The Main Frame: Composition sits at the heart of that. When we’re learning,...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Howzit everyone! Have you ever stood next to another photographer, shooting the same scene, and got two radically different results? Often, when you look at their image and wonder how they created something special, your photo seems just 'o.k.'? The Main Frame: Not long ago, a member of the TPE Tribe asked for feedback on his photos. Again and again, people told him: “Your images need more focus.” At first, he thought they meant sharpness. You know — the technical kind of focus. But the...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Howzit to everyone!There are now 4649 amazing photographers here.. The Main Frame: Photography is a bizarre beast. It reveals a world hiding right in front of us—things we can only truly see through a camera. It can also capture, with unerring clarity, people and places from our past, pulling us straight back into the very moments we once photographed. Yesterday, I was at a funeral service, and—as often happens at times like these—I found myself thinking about my family, the moments of my...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Howzit! When I first began photography, portraits were the one thing I wanted to avoid. I didn’t like being in photographs myself, and the thought of having to talk to someone while I took their picture filled me with dread. I was shy, quiet, and preferred to keep to myself. At photo school, though, there was no escaping it. Assignments came, and some of them were portrait assignments. The problem was—I always stuck to photographing people I already knew. That way, I didn’t have to face my...
4 months ago • 4 min read
Howzit to all 60 new readers who joined us this week—awesome to have you here! Saturday Selections now has 4619 readers... Often in the past, I've picked up my camera and felt… nothing. The light is great, but the spark of inspiration just wasn't there. It’s a feeling I know many of you share—the pressure to always be creating, to have a unique vision for every scene, can be exhausting. It got me thinking about the nature of creative ruts. The Main Frame: Recently, a member of the TPE Tribe...
4 months ago • 3 min read
Howzit to all 65 new readers who joined us this week—awesome to have you here!I was freeing up space on my iPhone the other day when something struck me. My phone said I had 8,247 photos from the past year. Eight thousand, two hundred and forty-seven moments I thought were worth preserving. Then I reviewed what I'd actually shared—in newsletters, on the TPE Tribe, and in videos. Maybe twenty thirty odd. What happened with the rest? What lives in that massive gap between what we capture and...
5 months ago • 3 min read
Howzit, howzit to everyone! Hope you're having a great weekend The Main Frame: I've been thinking a lot lately about contrast—not just the technical kind we adjust with sliders in Lightroom, but the emotional kind that makes you stop and stare at a photograph. You know that feeling when an image just grabs hold of you? That's what I want to talk about today.About 10 years ago, I started to get back into black and white photography. Looking back on this work, I can see my shadows were gentle,...
5 months ago • 3 min read