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Branded by a Burning Stove

Philip — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:30:46 +0000

Branded by a Burning Stove Women can be so unforgiving? Philip Dunn meets a man who bent over backwards to ensure that the lady who shared his boat could sleep undisturbed. But it did him no good, and now he’s a marked man. It is heart-rending the lengths to which a sailing man will go, […]

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Wildlife Trail Camera Surprise

Philip — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:55:41 +0000

Secret Night Time World of Wildlife The joys of using a wildlife trail camera seem obvious. You can get a privileged insight into a secret night time world of wildlife in your garden – and you can record wildlife dramas while you’re tucked up in bed. Tiddly Poops My neighbour had bats – no doubt […]

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A Seafarers’ Boozer

Philip — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:59:35 +0000

A Seafarers’ Boozer Thank God, there is hope. The end of civilisation is not upon us quite yet. A leading light still shines – powered by divine intervention no less. After a lifetime watching the demise of the English harbour pub at the rapacious hands of brewery corporate-image and morons, I can report that one […]

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Bombs Away – Sailing Around Cape Wrath

Philip — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:06:27 +0000

Bombs Away – Sailing Around Cape Wrath With the prospect of being sunk by torpedoes, peppered by machine gun bullets, or bombed by ‘friendly’ fire, it’s not all plain sailing in British waters these days. On a passage around Cape Wrath on the extreme northwest coast Scotland, I found that the only way to make […]

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Photographer Philip Dunn to Retire

Philip — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:18:04 +0000

Photographer Philip Dunn to retire… Yes, that’s me, Philip Dunn. I shall no longer be taking on any new photography students, but that doesn’t mean I shall be putting away my cameras and sitting in front of the fire doing nothing. For a start, I will be changing completely the emphasis of the PhotoActive website… […]

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Photography Tuition

Philip — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:41:57 +0000

The way in which I offer photography tuition has evolved over the years. To reflect the latest changes, I have updated the information on the PhotoActive website. The one-to-one photography tuition will continue, although I am now pretty much retired and intend to enjoy a lot more of the freedom this can offer. The […]

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Camera Club Workshops

Philip — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:02:52 +0000

Night photography Camera Club Workshops I get a tremendous buzz from arranging camera club workshops. Last night it was again the turn of the Long Mynd Camera Club of Church Stretton, Shropshire. What a great bunch of photographers they are. It takes a degree of patience and understanding among the participants when there are 8 […]

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Photograph it again

Philip — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 10:40:30 +0000

Never be afraid to return to a photo location and photograph it again. There might be any number of reasons why you – the photographer – would want to return to a particular photo location. Perhaps you ran out of time when you were there the first time. Maybe the light failed, or perhaps you […]

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Leading Lines can mislead

Philip — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 12:17:56 +0000

Don’t get misled by leading lines. After a lifetime working as a professional photographer, I still learn something from every photography student who comes to me for tuition. Yes, every single one. Where’s this leading us? The other night I had a chap who seemed over-keen on leading lines. It was during a Night Photography […]

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Street Photography Workshop in the rain

Philip — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 11:02:21 +0000

It was a Street Photography Workshop in the rain yesterday when members of the Newport Camera Club came to Shrewsbury. The club’s next photo competition? Yes, it was Street Photography Workshop in the rain. It rained and it blew, but the enthusiasm and endurance of the photographers was amazing. So too, was the […]

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