The other day, I saw somebody I follow on Instagram celebrating their “instaversary” (or however you name it). And it made me think about how I started on the platform myself. I am a compulsive early adopter of apps. I get very excited about everything new that seems novel and disruptive. So, I jumped on board the Instagram train very early. Some background It was 2009. I had just purchased my first...

We just had 3 days in a row of morning fog here in London. It was all over Instagram as people were excited and filled their stories and feeds with London fog photos (#londonfog). Of course, I published a couple of stories myself on my IG (@fabienb ). But I haven't posted on my feed because most shots I took were wide landscape shots, and these look tiny in the app. Instead,...

In January, the Super Blood Wolf Moon was only half a success because the clouds arrived to “eclipse the eclipse”. That meant I needed to try this again with the new supermoon in February, the Super Snow Moon. What is a Supermoon anyway? You know that the moon follows an elliptical orbit around the Earth. Within this trajectory, the perigee is the closest point to our planet, and the apogee is the...

Still in the first weeks of the new year, there was already an exciting photographic occasion: the Super Blood Wolf Moon. Such a dramatic name stands for a supermoon that happens at the same time as a lunar eclipse. Something quite rare: consider the next eclipse will be only visible in the UK in almost 11 years (maybe less?)! If you're already googling the date to pin it to your calendar… Probably...

I decided to kick off 2019 with a new photographic series on Instagram, all about city lights at night. In London but not only.My feed was never too consistent, despite all the recommendations you hear about making it so. In an effort to achieve better consistency while retaining the diversity of my style, I thought I'd share my photos as a series. This way, a good amount of similar shots will appear...

In this blog, I start disclosing my editing workflow, and the first topic I'd like to introduce is Luminosity Masks. Luminosity Masks are something you might have heard before, mostly if you shoot Landscape/Cityscape. In a nutshell, they are selections based on tones that allow for refined adjustments. In their basic form, they broadly target highlights and/or shadows. But they can be further refined to include mid-tones or narrow down an image's...

The Gatwick Fiasco. Or how the second largest and busiest airport in the UK couldn't handle a drone alert and ruined the Christmas plans of 150.000 people. Including me. I'm sure you all heard what happened a few days ago. Alerts of drones flying near the airport runway caused a shutdown of all operations . Every flight on Wednesday got cancelled. Then, on Thursday, it happened again when I arrived at the...

With a dozen flights, a few trains, several buses and some spare time at beaches, I had plenty of opportunities to read books during my trip, and there are definitely a few I'd like to recommend. Most of my reads these days are non-fiction, largely focused on life improvement, motivation and so on, and I find these books to be quite inspirational. As always with these books, you don't necessarily need to...

I know, natural disasters don't sound like the most appealing title. But I felt the need to write down this post… September can be a rough month to travel anywhere near the Pacific. But honestly, it looked like my plan was set up by some weird travel agency with an odd sense of humour. Asia The day before my departure, the deadly storm Jebi hit Japan pretty badly, leaving the airport of...

Travel Diaries: South Korea, Part 3. South Korea is obviously not just Seoul, and it's always worth visiting other locations. To see all that the country has to offer and boost local economies.One of the many recommended spots is Jeju Island, but this time I didn't manage to go. Also, from what I could see from the aeroplane and the train, the countryside is very beautiful too. Instead, I visited Suwon for...

Travel Diaries: South Korea. Part 2: Seoul Highlights. Welcome to my Seoul highlights! Here I'm going to list my personal recommendations based on the short time I spent wandering around the city. And I'll add a few tips as well. See the bottom of this page for links to Part 1 and Part 3. The first thing to mention is the DiscoverSeoul pass. It's a very convenient way to visit most of...

… and off I went to South Korea. For the first leg of my month-long trip, I decided to start from a place far away. Geographically and culturally. I had in mind to visit Seoul already while I was working at Endava. I thought I could easily work remotely from there, thanks to lightning-fast (and affordable) wi-fi connections throughout the country. Most of what I knew about South Korea before was food-related....