CaptureWithDave

The Mountain – FAE

Nestled between Iceland, Scotland and Norway in the North Atlantic, the Faroe Islands take a little piece of each of those landscapes in a hybrid mix of eclecticism and ruggedness, providing somewhat of a maritime landscape with clear evidence of volcanic basalt formations and a combination of sweeping hillsides and sheer cliff faces, where no point anywhere on any of the 18 islands is more than…

International Coffee Hunt 2019

Those who follow my missions on social media will be well aware that everywhere I go I take a Lonely Planet guidebook with me and try to find a nice local coffee to shoot alongside it, and my 2019 International Coffee Hunt is now complete!

The Lonely Planet range is pretty good, but I have one confession about this years hunt and its accuracy – The Denmark shot is from the Faroe Islands…

What a year 2K19 has been! I’ve managed to exceed my record number of air miles, I’ve seen new places, new countries, had new experiences, and taken some shots I’m certainly proud of! Let’s kick this off with the year in numbers: –

77,588

That’s the number of miles I’ve done in the air, give or take. It only accounts for airplanes, not helicopters 😉

12,724

That’s the number of miles…

The Chopper – FAE

I’ve had some cool helicopter flights over the years but this one in the Faroe Islands stood out amongst the rest. There was no simulated engine failure and hard landing like the time I flew in a Chinook with the Royal Air Force, nor were the doors off like my flight over Miami with FlyNyon or over Rio de Janeiro with Vertical Rio, and there was no landing on a volcano like in Iceland with…

I got it! Finally! This shot is following my 3rd attempt and is the result of some 720 miles driving back and forth, and several different methods which failed. Here’s how: –

It all started when I was looking at lighthouses in the UK to shoot and landed on perhaps the most synonymously ‘lighthouse’ looking light – the red and white striped Beachy Head Light. I was researching and found that a…

he cosmo city of Rio de Janeiro is one of the worlds ‘up and coming’ where the classic is meeting the modern – so much so in fact that Uber is bigger here than in New York City. The city is straight forward to navigate, buffered by the sea, and the suburbs stretch along the coast and offer beautiful escapes from the city, and then there’s something else: – Tijuca. Rio is a city with a rainforest…

Aurora Insider – Tromsø

If you’re in Northern Norway, specifically around Tromsø, I have an insider tip for you right here!

Tromsø is pitched as the northern lights capital of the world, boasting more aurora filled night skies per year than any other place. The thing is though, you can have top notch space activity but it means nothing if you don’t have a clear sky. The climate at the top of Norway is such that you…

Norway was put here for photographers, I’m certain of it! My favourite place on the planet is Iceland, but Norway comes a very close second. I’ve explored Lofoten in summer and winter, and it’s a beautiful place all year round. Lofoten is a region in Northern Norway, most famous for the Reine area where there are small towns on archipelagos and islands connected by bridges and causeways. Most…

Kannesteinen sits on the coast near Oppedal on Måløy and this particular rock is unique in nature. The mushroom shape has been forged by crashing waves and grinding stone over thousands of years. Access to the rock itself is easy, while access to the overall location is, as I found, quite restricted. The island on which it sits is accessed by a series of ferries and bridges from the ‘mainland’…

Top of the Fjord

Norway was put on this planet for photographer, I’m absolutely convinced by that!

I recently made a journey to Norway, specifically to the amazing, majestic fjords of the South, and one of the missions while I was there was to make the climb to Kjeragbolten.

My master plan was to reach the famous rock, which is wedged between two cliff faces atop the mountain, some 1km above the fjord below, for…

I just returned from the Arctic, and I loved it!

On my first night there in Norway, having just landed at Tromsø, I quickly checked two things: – the weather forecast and the Aurora forecast. As luck would have it, both were looking pretty good! I decided that rather than head west towards Senja where a nice warm, cosy hotel was waiting for me, I’d drive in the general direction of Finland.…

In photography, as in life, it’s important to have a game plan! As well as knowing what you’re doing tomorrow it’s also vital to at least have an idea of a 5 year plan. This gives you goals, which you achieve and in turn leads to more goals, and so the cycle continues until your progress becomes so advanced your start point appears as a dot in the distance rather than the goals being the dot!…

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This quick post is to share the easiest way to make a parallax image in Adobe Photoshop. Let’s go!

First up, pick the right image. You need something that has a distinguishable foreground element, like this shot of me at the edge of Plansee in Austria taken by Peter Treadway.

Get this image processed how you want it and take…

Those of you who have been following my Icelandic adventures lately will have noticed I’ve taken quite a liking for the hot pools! When visiting Iceland there’s a clear winning choice highlighted in all the guidebooks and in fact in the corridors at the airport when you arrive – the Blue Lagoon. It’s got a lot to offer, particularly when it comes to luxury, and you can have a great experience…

Stock photography is an easy second income stream for you, so explore the idea of selling your photographs for use in media, editorial and marketing right now!

Getting on Getty Images, Shutterstock, iStock, or Adobe Stock is as simple as signing up for an account, reading the rules and in some cases taking a quick test, and uploading a test submission. Once you’ve passed that phase it’s a very…

If you’ve ever asked Siri the meaning of life you may have had the answer ‘42’ come back at you. It comes from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It’s because Deep Thought, the second greatest computer, worked out that answer.

  Anyway, the meaning of life is that you should make what you want of it. It is that you should live your life to its fullest potential. It is not to ponder ‘why are we…

The year is out, and what a year it’s been! I’ll start with the numbers: –

Air Miles – 21,239 (34,180km)

Flights – 21

Motorbike adventure miles – c.5,750 (9,253km)

Countries – 17 (two twice, one three times)

Rental cars – 9

Rental car mileage – c.6,364 (10,243km)

Lonely Planet International Coffee Hunt shots – 20

  It’s certainly been an awesome year overall, and I’d particularly like to give…