Welcome. This is the story of my journey to 5G Broadband in a rural village in Hampshire, UK. We live in a tiny village in Hampshire. For years we’ve suffered sub-optimal broadband speeds. When we moved from London 20 years ago, they were acceptable speeds, but nothing to write home about. For the last 8-10…
Adobe has just announced a new update to Lightroom. I’m using Lightroom Classic version 12.3 (April 2023). Just thought I’d run an old image of mine through the new process, to see what it does (how well it does it). My current go to program for de-noise is Topaz Photo AI, which is extremely good,…
Which is the best Apple Mac for a Wedding Photographer? I must get asked this question at least once a week. If I don’t get asked direct then it comes up on wedding photographer forums constantly. To save myself the trouble of retyping my reply each and every time, I’m writing a very short article…
Just a quick blog post about how to create good filenames, that computers understand and keep your files organised. Plus organising your folders into logical names so that you can find anything on your computer quickly. This is so important for photographers, especially wedding photographers who may be shooting 30 plus weddings every year. Once…
I’ve had to deal with this issue many times in my years of working as a professional photographer on various Apple Mac machines. But in the last few years, working on an iMac the methods of speeding things up are fairly limited, but actually very easy to do – and importantly, they are not expensive…
I’ve been testing out the new AVIF image format. Smaller than WebP and potentially faster loading.
A great website for checking how every page on your website performs for the Google Core Web Vitals.
A simple test of 5 popular themes, so see how much they affect the speed of your website.
What happens if you use a slow web hosting company? The Tortoise & The Hare Unlike in the fable, with a web server, the hare will always win. If you are using a Tortoise to collect your assets, you’re gonna be waiting a long time for them to arrive. When you first load a website….
I spend a lot of time testing people’s websites. It’s become something of an obsession, after learning why my own website was running slow, I learned more about more about server response times. And I’m still learning. People used to like to say that if your website loaded in under 2 seconds, you had nothing…
