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New Forest Wildlife Park – Worth a Visit?

The New Forest Wildlife Park is situated just off the A35, not far from Lyndhurst making it a great place to visit if you want an additional place to visit, close to the heart of the New Forest. With animals such as Wolves, Bison, and Lynx, in addition to smaller animals such as Otters...

Tips for Hiring a VW Campervan for the first time

Hiring a VW Campervan for the first time? This can be an exciting but also daunting experience if you have never hired before, so we thought we would give you 10 Tips for hiring a VW campervan for the first time. We use ours for day trips and for holidays, so we can certainly recommend...

Free Things to do in the New Forest with Children

It is a beautiful part of the world, so we thought we would share what we think are 5 Great Free Things to do in the New Forest with Children. The New Forest National Park is a little over an hour away from London. In easy reach by rail or road, it is a fantastic place to bring the...

New Forest Pubs with Children’s Play Area

Good New Forest Pubs with Children’s Play Area is important to us. So we went looking for one with the cows and horses graze yards from the beer garden. The little ones can run wild in the play parks, and you smile to yourself. One, for knowing they are having fun, and two, because...

Custom Shooting Settings in a Canon DSLR

The Custom Shooting Settings in Canon a DSLR are a great way to make your life just that little bit easier on your shoots. And we are all for that! Here is another quick instruction post about how to set this up. If you would prefer to follow along to the video, go ahead, but if not, read...

Fixing Highlights and Shadows in Lightroom

Lightroom is an amazing friend for Photographers. In this tutorial, I am going to quickly explain a quick way of Fixing Highlights and Shadows in Lightroom. Fancy a video walk through, and seeing me play a guitar….badly? Check out the video. If you’d rather follow with good...

Canon 5D Mark IV Extra Menu Options

So I have been using the Canon 5D MkIII for several years, and over Christmas I had the chance to use the MkIV for a couple of weeks. I was really keen to see if it was worth the upgrade. At a price in excess of £2k, would have to be well worth it. That is a story for another day, but in...

Matching Exposure for Multiple images in Lightroom

Are you looking for a way of Matching Exposure for Multiple images in Lightroom? Perhaps you were out on a shoot, and that big ball of fire in the sky decided to pop out from behind the cloud it has been hiding behind. All of a sudden your perfectly exposed photos are too bright. If you...

Creating Custom Presets on Lightroom Mobile

For an age I wondered about Creating Custom Presets in Lightroom Mobile. In one of the more recent releases, Adobe thankfully gave us this function. Hooray!! As we move more towards mobile, Lightroom Mobile is a great tool for editing your images on the go. The Custom Preset Option is the...

Using the Favourites Menu on the Canon

The Favourites Menu on the Canon, in particular the 5D Mark 3, which is my main camera, is a great function. Worthy of one of my Two Minute Tips video tutorials. If following along to a video is easier, then see below, otherwise, read on. There are 20 pages of Menu options on the Canon 5D...

Focus Stacking using Photoshop – With Photos and Video!

This post and short tutorial is going to talk a bit about Focus Stacking in Photoshop. How to ‘merge’ together a set of images, with different focal points to create an image that is in focus and sharp from front to back. Check out the video if you are a ‘watching’...

Ulwell Cottage Caravan Park – A Brilliant Stay

Here is our review of Ulwell Cottage Caravan Park. As with all our reviews here, and what we want to achieve on this site, we only review the campsites we have stayed at, so you know you are getting an honest opinion from honest campers. This is a review based on our experiences, totally...