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I’ve just returned from my (socially distanced) holiday in the South West of England. Having left South Yorkshire on the 29th August, my trip started with a two day stop at Glastonbury, where I got chance to climb the Tor and see the colourful characters in the town centre.

I recently entered a street photography shot into a couple of competitions. One was the APOY 2020 ‘City Life’ round and the other was a community contest on Photocrowd. This is the image I entered:

Recently Digital Photographer Magazine ran a Summer Landscapes competition on Photocrowd. Entrants were encouraged to “make use of shadows” and “look for striking but natural colour contrasts”. I entered one of my recent images from Mam Tor in the Peak Disctrict and I’m delighted to say that I finished in the top 10%!, finishing 272nd place out of 3483 entries. That’s actually in the top 8% – but Photocrowd award a badge for being within the 10% bracket.

It’s really encouraging, and I feel like my landscape photography is definitely going in the right direction. My next goal is top 5%!

The challenge set by 52frames for week 28 was to have someone else edit your image. It was an interesting concept, and a bit different from challenges in previous weeks. I don’t have too many photographer friends, and those that are don’t use RAW editing software. Therefore I hit the Reddit forums to try and find some people that could help me complete the challenge.

I found a subreddit called Edit My RAW, and posted a request along with two RAW files that I had taken in the woods earlier that day. Conditions were average, and the shots weren’t particularly special, but I did quite like them, and I’m pleased to say I got some fantastic edits from a number of users. 27 in total!

I show all of the images, as well as the chosen image that I submitted to 52frames in my video.