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What To Photograph On Day-Trips To Picturesque Villages

  1. Community

Villages provide plenty of photo opportunities and most of us have one just a short drive away. The village community is one area to focus on, there's usually a few local speciality shops - maybe a hardware store or cobbler.

 

2. Portraits

Pluck up the courage to ask to photograph the employees at work. The worse that can happen is they say no, but if they accept you will have a brilliant opportunity to shoot environmental portraits. Try shooting with a wide-angle lens to include as much background while catching the owner at work. If it's fruit and veg you could have them weighing up a purchase, carrying a sack into the store, arranging the fare or even handwriting a display price ticket. While a cobbler could be banging at a heel or shaping a key. A butcher could be hacking away at a joint or arranging slices of meat.

Take this idea outdoors and follow the locals around catching them at the bus stop, crossing the road, chatting to neighbours over a fence. Whatever you do respect their privacy. It's best if you get chatting to them first and ask for permission, then you won't feel awkward and no one gets into trouble.

 

3. Flower Photography

Villages tend to have interesting flower displays, especially those who aim to win best-kept village awards. So if you're looking for colourful chocolate box style shots check out the local regions of the Campaign To Protect Rural England (CPRE) website. Use a wide-angle lens from a viewpoint close to the flower display and include the houses/street scene in the background. Or shoot with a telephoto to compress perspective and focus totally on the flowers.

Many Derbyshire villages have a summertime activity called Well Dressing, where they dress a well in pictures made of flowers and petals. This is a great opportunity for colourful shots.

 

 

4. Activities And Events

Look out for village activities, many have charity events at the local church. It may be a bring and buy sale, a flower or cake stall, jumble sale, book or record fair. All offer great photojournalism style options. Shoot with a telephoto lens to catch people unaware in a candid fashion. Shoot with a wide-angle to get the hall with all the stalls in. Use ambient light for more atmospheric photos.

  5. Chocolate Box Views

To get some ideas about which villages have good photographic potential look at calendars in stationery shops or jigsaws in toy shops. The popular calendars and jigsaws will have pretty village scenes – thatched cottages, quaint river scenes, floral street scenes. They usually have the location printed on them. You can plan a trip and take in two or three villages in one region.

Look out for vintage life in a village. It's the place you're likely to find a Victorian post box, there may be old street signs, and architectural details found in old buildings or monuments. Villages often have war memorials that make good focal points.
 

5. Pubs

The village's local pub might have an interesting pub sign to photograph. Shoot from further away with a longer lens to avoid a distorted shape. Nip inside and you could find a warm fire and local characters. Rest the camera on a table to take ambient light shots.

Once you've done your excursion, consider making prints of your best shots into postcards and selling them in the local cafe/gift shop/post office.

 

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ePHOTOzine Daily Theme Winners Week 2 August 2026

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The latest winner of our popular daily photography theme which takes place in our forums have been chosen and congratulations go to Leedslass1 (Day 11 - 'Negative Space').

 

Daily Theme Runners-Up

If you didn't win this time, keep uploading your images to the daily competition forum for another chance to win! If you're new to the Daily Theme, you can find out more about it in the Daily Theme Q&A

Well done to our latest runners-up, too, whose images you can take a look at below.

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Crop Fields

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Day 10

Tourists

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Day 12

Letters

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Day 13

People Outdoors

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  Day 14

Long Exposures

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Day 15

Patterns

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You’ll find the Daily Themes, along with other great photo competitions, over in our Forum. Take a look to see the latest daily photo contests. Open to all levels of photographer, you’re sure to find a photography competition to enter. Why not share details of competitions with our community? Join the camaraderie and upload an image to our Gallery.

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What Is Optical Distortion And How Does It Affect Your Images?

Optical distortion is something that affects all lenses to some extent. However, the effect is more pronounced in certain lenses and can be used to give a different spin on an otherwise 'normal' view of an object. 

Although it distorts images, it is not always a negative effect and it can be used in different situations to create abstract or more creative shots of subjects.

Below, we've listed what types of optical distortion there are and how they can affect your images, either in a negative or positive way. 

 

What is Curvilinear distortion?

This is where lines that should be straight in your image appear curved or bowed in some way. There a quite a few different types of this distortion, but the most common you will come across is barrel distortion, where vertical lines appear to curve outwards like a barrel. This type of distortion is most common in wide angle or fisheye lenses. The effect will be really pronounced in the fisheye as the effect is more deliberate here.

This can be used in portrait images to create unique looking images where the facial features are stretched and warped, this works equally well with humans and animals. 

 

 

 

What is Pincushion distortion?

Pincushion distortion is the opposite of barrel distortion, as the lines bow inwards. The effect is usually quite subtle and can only really be seen in square or rectangular objects when they are shot straight on, such as architecture with windows and doors, and other straight lines. This effect tends to be more of an issue in long telephoto lenses. Pincushion distortion is a lot less pronounced than barrel distortion and so it is often not noticeable in images unless you look really closely. However, it can also be corrected quite quickly and easily in photo editing software. The majority of modern cameras will provide built-in options to correct for this as well.

 

Extreme example of pincushion distortion, from an uncorrrected image, from the Sony E 18-105mm lens - you can see corrected versions in the review.

 

 

What is Mustache distortion?

Mustache distortion is basically a combination of barrel and pincushion distortion. Some lenses display both at the same time. It is most commonly seen in wide angle zooms and makes straight lines in images appear wavy. It can be noticed on the horizon, for example when photographing seascapes, particularly if the horizon is near the top or bottom of the frame.  

 

 

What is Chromatic Aberration?

Chromatic Aberration creates colour fringing on an image, usually around the lines and edges on the image, but it can also be present in other areas of the shot, where there are areas of high contrast, for example a black tree branch, against a bright sky. It usually appears as a purple, glowing halo giving "purple fringing", or can appear as red/magenta lines, often with green/cyan lines as well.

 

An example of chromatic aberration can be seen above, note the megenta and cyan / green lines on the edges of the window frame. You can see an example of purple fringing below, where the gravestone is up against a bright (blown out) sky. 

This can often be corrected either in camera automatically in modern cameras, or in photo editing software, such as Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Lightroom.

 

Purple fringing can be seen around the top of the gravestone.

 

 

What is Vignetting?

All lenses have a little vignetting - it's the term used when the image is darker at the edges than in the centre, due the curvature of the lens. Vignetting can sometimes be used to your advantage as a stylistic tool, to highlight the main aspect of your image in the centre. Most modern cameras will automatically correct for vignetting, depending on the lens used, and this can be corrected in photo editing software quickly and easily, or alternatively added to give a creative effect and style to your photo. See our guide on how to add a vignette to a photo in Photoshop.

 

Severe vignetting can be seen in this image.

 

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Can a Monitor Really Be Worth This Much? EIZO CG2700X Review

FStoppers - Sun 30 Aug 2026 10:03pm

A good monitor is hard to appreciate until you have used a bad one. While we spend decades arguing over which camera has better color rendition, we don’t pay as much attention to the screens we view these colors on. If the screen is wrong, everything is wrong. 

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The Story of The Earliest Known Surviving Photo of a Person

FStoppers - Sun 30 Aug 2026 5:03pm

Look at the picture and you see an empty Paris street. Wide sidewalks, a row of trees, tall buildings, and almost no sign of life on what should have been a busy morning. Then your eye catches it: down in the lower left corner, one small figure stands with a foot up on a shoeshine box, and a second figure crouches at his feet. That man is widely considered the earliest identifiable human being in any surviving photograph, and nothing suggests anyone planned his place in history, least of all him. 

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Inside Europe's Largest Camera Vault: 50,000 Lenses and One Holy Grail

FStoppers - Sun 30 Aug 2026 4:03pm

Fifty thousand vintage cameras and lenses sit inside a Finnish warehouse, and most of them arrived broken. A collection that size raises a simple question: how do you find anything worth shooting with, and does the vault actually hold the one lens you have been chasing for years?

 

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Diffusion, Bloom, or Halation? Breaking Down Camera Raw's Glow Slider

FStoppers - Sun 30 Aug 2026 2:03pm

Camera Raw 18.6 adds a dedicated glow slider that folds several manual editing techniques into one control. If dreamy, soft light is part of your style, this changes how you build that look from scratch.

 

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Why Moving Your Light Closer Kills Glasses Glare

FStoppers - Sun 30 Aug 2026 12:03pm

Reflections bouncing off eyeglass lenses ruin more portraits than almost any other lighting problem, and the fix runs opposite to what most people assume. A smaller, more specular light source makes the reflection worse, while a large diffused light pulled in close makes it nearly vanish.

 

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The 7 Habits That Rewired One Photographer's Career

FStoppers - Sun 30 Aug 2026 10:03am

Seven habits, no lectures, and a warning about the one that quietly holds you back. That last part is the most useful thing here, because the trap it describes has probably caught you already.

 

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Essential Times Square Photography Tips

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY NEWS FROM ePHOTOzine - Sun 30 Aug 2026 3:53am

As Times Square is a popular location for tourists, it can be hard to shoot photos, particularly panoramas as people will often get in front of your lens, movement becomes blurred and when trying to stitch shots together, people often end up looking like they've got sliced in half. There are times when the square isn't so full of tourists but as photographer David Clapp explains, the photos aren't as interesting: "Even though shooting at busy times proved to be very complex and very stressful both in the field and in post-processing, I didn't want to go out 5am when there was no one about as it ruins the buzz intensity."

There are a set of steps which you can stand at the top of and shoot down onto the square, however if it rains no one sits on the steps, blocking the view and you're not allowed to use a tripod at the top of the steps as you will be told it's a 'safety hazard'.

A way to shoot Times Square without having to fight the crowds is to shoot up at the tower blocks and billboards that decorate the square.

Here's one David took looking vertically up at the tower blocks:

 

 

Moving your lens away from crowd level removes one problem but it's replaced with another and that's adverts changing constantly. If you want to blend images together, as David did for the above shot which is made up of three images, getting your timing right is crucial.

"The only way to do this is to shoot with the camera in Live View mode and wait until some kind of 'rest' occurs before capture. You can see I caught the 'eye' in the bottom left half way through transition. Still, it works. However, I am not altogether happy with the lighting of this image. The weather was so unstable that it made dusk shooting a lottery."

A way to really exaggerate the size of the structures in a city is with a fisheye lens. In the shot below, David moved down a few streets away from Times Square to shoot these buildings at a crossroads.

 

 

"I opted for the same technique I tried a few days before, using a faster shutter speed to capture two images for a blend, so the adverts wouldn't change between images. It works really well, but in the end the ambient light was good enough that I could process the image from just one RAW file."

For the next shot, David had to position half of his tripod on the pavement and the other on the road (watching for traffic in the process).

 

 

"This fabulous subway sign helps to set the scene even further, giving a title to the cluster of buildings rising upwards into the sky," he explained.

David increased the brightness in the centre of the photo with a circular gradient fill on a curves adjustment layer. He did this to give the impression that the lighting was consistent all the way up to the top of the tower blocks, which it wasn't.

This was shot following exactly the same concept but this time David twisted the camera and lens downwards, to show the full tower block above the road.

 

 

"These buildings are a riot of colours and lines. I love the cross-shaped gap in the middle, in particular," said David. "The image potential in Times Square is huge, all these shots were taken from the same place, give or take a few feet, but it does take serious refining."

To see more of David's work, visit his website: www.davidclapp.co.uk

 

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The AGO Film Processor Long-Term Review

FStoppers - Sat 29 Aug 2026 10:03pm

It’s been over a year since we reviewed the AGO Film Processor from Vintage Visual. Is this mobile film processor still a good buy in 2026? I’ll show you the good, the bad, and even the ugly about the AGO. 

Oh, how time flies when you’re having fun. Since the autumn of 2024, I’d estimate I’ve processed no less than 264 frames across 135 (35 mm), medium format, and 4x5 sheet film. That’s not to mention the random experiments with various papers and other historical process oddities.

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11 Beginner Drone Mistakes That Can Cost You More Than a Crash

FStoppers - Sat 29 Aug 2026 5:03pm

A drone is the rare piece of camera gear that can get you fined, grounded, or into a courtroom before you have taken a single good photo. Most beginner mistakes with a new camera cost you a bad frame. A handful of beginner mistakes with a drone cost you a four-figure penalty, a wrecked aircraft, or an angry neighbor with your registration number written down. The stakes are simply higher, because the moment your drone leaves the ground you are operating an aircraft in shared airspace, and the rules treat you like it. 

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The a7R V, a7 V, and a7R VI Compared by Someone Who Bought All Three

FStoppers - Sat 29 Aug 2026 4:03pm

Choosing a Sony body in the $3,000 to $5,000 range means weighing resolution, speed, and battery life against a price that keeps shifting on the used market. The a7R V, a7 V, and a7R VI look nearly identical in the hand, yet they behave very differently once you start shooting.

 

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Adobe Unveils New Photoshop AI Tools and Features for Creative Pros

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY NEWS FROM ePHOTOzine - Sat 29 Aug 2026 3:51pm

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Adobe is rolling out new Photoshop tools designed to give creative pros faster workflows and finer creative control. Key updates include non-destructive Light Adjustment Layers, visual Markup controls, and Firefly Image 5 powered prompt masking to protect vital brand assets. Designers can also explore a new beta AI Assisted Editor or use Prompt to Edit directly in the traditional Pro Editor for seamless, text-based image transformations.

 

From Adobe:

 

Great tools amplify your creativity while allowing you to focus on your ideas. That's been our focus since Photoshop's earliest days, and it’s what drives us today, especially as AI reshapes what's possible in creative work.

We're introducing a new set of Photoshop innovations to give you more choice in how you create, more flexibility in how you work, and more control over your results. Whether you're refining details with precision tools or exploring ideas through prompts, these updates are designed to help you work with greater efficiency and confidence so you can stay focused on your creative vision from start to finish.

 

More precision, less friction, greater creative control

As a creative professional, your time is your critical resource, and you want technology that streamlines the busywork without sacrificing the discretion and judgment that defines your craft.

Sharper, more precise editing:

  • Light Adjustment Layer gives you professional-grade lighting controls — Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, and Blacks — in a new non-destructive adjustment layer, so you get Camera Raw-level results without ever leaving your Photoshop layers workflow.
  • Instruct Edit with Masks, powered by Firefly Image 5, understands the full context of your image so you no longer need to precisely mark every edit area yourself. Just describe the precise edits you’re looking for — such as opening closed eyes or placing a hat on a specific person’s head — with simple prompts. The unmasked areas remain untouched so your other important elements, like faces, logos, or brand assets, are protected.
  • Markup lets you visually communicate edits by drawing directly on an image to show the model what you want — select areas to recolor, sketch arrows to indicate position, or brush in rough shapes to suggest new elements — so you can get results that more closely match your vision while reducing the ambiguity of text-only prompts.

 

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More control, fewer interruptions:

  • Dynamic Text, Shapes and Paths extends Photoshop's Dynamic Text to any custom shape or path, allowing text to adapt automatically along curves and freeform layouts so you keep your formatting without manual rework.
  • Stock Panel Integration puts more than 900 million Adobe Stock assets right inside Photoshop in a dockable panel, so you can easily discover, preview, and use assets without leaving your workflow.

 

More flexibility in how you work

Everyone moves from idea to execution in different ways, which is why we're adding more choice by bringing in a new optional space in Photoshop to try prompt-based editing outside the familiar Pro Editor workflow.

 

Introducing AI Assisted Editor

The AI Assisted Editor, now in beta, gives you the option of using a dedicated interface and natural-language prompt bar alongside popular generative tools powered by leading AI models, so you can explore ideas and make edits using simple prompts.

 

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AI Assisted Editor includes:

  • Prompt to Edit: Transform images using natural language prompts without complex manual editing.
  • Remove Background: Erase backgrounds, refine edges, and customize images in just a few clicks.
  • Generative Expand: Extend image dimensions and generate content that blends naturally with your composition.
  • Remove Tool: Eliminate unwanted objects and distractions while maintaining realistic image quality.
  • Generative Fill: Add, replace, or remove content using simple text prompts.
  • Generative Upscale: Increase image resolution while preserving sharpness and visual fidelity.
  • AI Markup: Annotate images to communicate edits visually and generate more precise results.

Prefer to keep working in the Pro Editor? Prompt to Edit offers the same natural language editing directly in the Pro Editor's Contextual Task Bar, so you can transform an entire image using simple prompts, with no selection required, right from the context bar you’re already using. Every Prompt to Edit result becomes a generative layer in your layer stack, so your edits stay organized and non-destructive

Whether you prefer prompts, precision tools, or a combination of both, Photoshop offers the flexibility to support the way you create.

Start exploring what’s new in Photoshop today!

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Learn Manual Mode, Then Stop Obeying It

FStoppers - Sat 29 Aug 2026 2:03pm

Getting better at photography can quietly turn against you. The more you learn about exposure, sharpness, and gear, the easier it becomes to spend your energy proving you know the rules instead of making pictures you actually care about.

 

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Master Urban Abstract Photography With These 8 Tips

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY NEWS FROM ePHOTOzine - Sat 29 Aug 2026 12:46pm

 

To help you give your urban photography an abstract feel, here are 8 top tips on what, how and where to take your photos when out exploring a town or city. 

 

1. Focus On What's Interesting

When you find something that catches your eye, think about how you can compose the shot to take the subject away from its surroundings so it becomes abstract rather than a great city shot with several interesting elements. The key to capturing an image that works is to create an image out of something ordinary that you wouldn't normally see while still creating an appealing shot.

 

2. More Than One Point Of Interest

When you have a subject that has multiple points of interest you have the opportunity to capture various elements, some which may not have seemed so obvious as working in an abstract way at the start.

 

3. Create Scale

Just because you're capturing abstracts doesn't mean you always have to work up-close. Think of it as cropping out unwanted elements rather than using your lens to zoom in. Use surrounding elements to emphasise size but still frame the image so the building's surroundings are removed, giving emphasis to its shapes and patterns rather than it having context. 

 

4. Use Colour

By using a single bright colour in a shot that's mostly of the same shades can give the viewer of the image a point of focus that can also be used to guide and lead the eye to other points in the shot. This is even more so when the area is limited and contrasts so greatly with the rest of the image. Strong blocks of colour can also work well but you don't want one to overpower the other so the viewer doesn't pay attention to the rest of the frame. 

 

 

5. Look For Shadows 

This isn't something our eyes tend to see but when arranged in the frame properly, they can be a great subject matter on their own or enhance the shapes/patterns of an object you're making your point of focus. 

 

6. Lines Work Well

 If you want to use lines in your image, try to find a location that gives you a shot that has lines that vary in size and colour. Bolder lines can have more impact than small, faint ones and do remember they will still guide the eye through the shot and tell the viewer where they should be looking. Don't think lines have to be straight either as a curved line will still guide the viewer's eye. 

 

7. Shoot Through Other Objects

If you find a rain-covered window or even a water feature that can be used to capture a distorted reflection thanks to the ripples in the water, use them to your advantage. Keep an eye out for coloured glass, reflective buildings and any other items you think will give your city shots that abstract feel you're searching for. 

 

8. People Like Patterns & Symmetry 

As humans, we like to see repeating patterns and symmetrical objects so take advantage of this. Patterns can guide the eye across an image as well as make your abstract shot more interesting thanks to the shapes they create. 

 

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Six Ways to Turn Brutal Midday Sun Into Better Photos

FStoppers - Sat 29 Aug 2026 12:03pm

You have probably been told to pack up your camera during the middle of the day and wait for sunrise or sunset. Hard midday light rewards a completely different approach, and once you learn to read it, whole hours you used to skip become usable.

 

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Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards Launch Immersive London Exhibition at FRAMELESS

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY NEWS FROM ePHOTOzine - Sat 29 Aug 2026 10:45am

© Jennifer Hadley / Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards

 

Celebrating 10 years of hilarious nature photography, the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards are bringing an immersive exhibition to FRAMELESS London on September 12. Running through January 2027, the limited-run gallery projects 91 award-winning photos across seven realistic habitats, complete with surround soundscapes that put you right next to surprised seals and ninja prairie dogs. Created with The Born Free Foundation, this fun display uses humor to highlight the lighter side of nature while raising support for wildlife conservation.

 

From Nikon:

 

  • A new retrospective immersive experience celebrating a decade of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards arrives at FRAMELESS this autumn, opening 12 September and running through January 2027.
  • The new experience will showcase 91 of the competition's best and funniest photographs of our natural world, reframed through seven unique habitats and environments, with spatial sound placing visitors inside each one.
  • The limited-run residency joins FRAMELESS' collection of 40+ immersive artworks across four interactive galleries, all in one ticket.

 

The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards, the global competition that has spent a decade using humour to campaign for wildlife conservation, is coming to FRAMELESS, London's largest permanent immersive art experience. Opening 12th  September, a brand-new retrospective experience will bring together ten years of the competition's funniest images presented at full scale inside the habitats where they were captured.

Staged in FRAMELESS' Blank Canvas Gallery, the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards Immersive Experience will feature 91 award-winning photographs from the competition's first decade, reimagined as a spectacular 15-minute immersive experience.

The colourful showcase takes visitors through seven different natural habitats, bringing them  face-to-face with some of the most humorous creatures that dwell in these environments. From surprised seals and sassy penguins on beach shores, bewildered bears and chortling mice on forest floors, to dancing monkeys and ninja prairie dogs in vast grasslands, visitors will discover the lighter side of life in habitats often remote from our own.

Each image is placed within the habitat it was captured in with spatial sound shifting around the gallery, from breaking waves on the shoreline to the hush of the forest floor, allowing visitors to feel as though they are walking through each environment as they meet the creatures that live there.

 

© David Parry / Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards / Frameless

 

Ryan 'Woody' Atwood, Creative Director of FRAMELESS, said: "Nature photography is one of the most precise art forms. Capturing the perfect image as timeless as those featured in this new experience can require months of planning and split-second decision making. For ten years, the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards have demonstrated that comedy is a powerful medium for telling important stories about conservation and nature and we're honoured that FRAMELESS is now a part of their journey. Through our signature immersive storytelling, we are reframing some of its best and most hilarious images in their native environments and we hope our audiences will come away with a newfound appreciation for both this artform and our weird and wonderful natural world."

Using humour to inspire wildlife conservation has been the ambition of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards since its inception in 2015. By demonstrating that we are not so different from wildlife as we may expect, the Awards' mission is to broaden our understanding of nature and why biodiversity conservation matters. Every year, the Awards support a grassroots conservation organisation and this year, it is working with The Born Free Foundation, an international wildlife charity working to prevent the exploitation and suffering of wild animals both in captivity and in the wild.

Tom Sullam, Co-founder at the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards, said: "Being able to show some of the very best entries from our fantastic collection of images at FRAMELESS is an absolute honour for all involved with this competition. The strength of our message is only as strong as the people that see the images, and this upbeat, positive and enhancing exhibition will be an incredible experience for all visitors. We are genuinely thrilled by this exhibition and can't wait to see the positivity that comes from it!"

 

© Andrea Zampatti / David Parry / Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards

 

Running through January 2027, the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards Immersive Experience comes at a timely moment in the Awards' calendar, which is gearing up to announce the finalists of its 2026 competition in early October. The retrospective experience will take over FRAMELESS' Blank Canvas Gallery, which has hosted some of its most ambitious exclusive residencies, from showcases by up-and-coming artists to collaborations with renowned institutions such as the National Portrait Gallery. Entry to the Blank Canvas Gallery is included in all standard FRAMELESS tickets.

The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards experience opens at FRAMELESS on 12 September 2026, running through January 2027. Entry to FRAMELESS begins at £29.50 for adults and £20 for children. Running across October half term and the Christmas holidays, the experience is suitable for all ages and included in every standard ticket. For more information, visit frameless.com/artist-residencies/comedy-wildlife-awards/

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Seven Things You Can Do in 10 Days to Take Better Photos

FStoppers - Sat 29 Aug 2026 10:03am

Getting better at photography rarely comes from one big leap. It comes from small, deliberate habits you can start this week, and most of them cost little or nothing.

 

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