If you ever want to become a better Photographer, there is one thing you need to start doing right now. Particularly when you're starting this new career, it's very easy to fall into traps. You buy a new camera because you saw all the great examples of what it can do in YouTube videos or Instagram posts , and you go straight out capturing everything you see. You find your photographer “role-models”...

I feel like I need to write a few words about talent. It's something I thought about after some feedback I received following my recent attempt to immerse myself in the world of Street Photography. You might have seen the results in my Instagram feed and stories (@fabienb ) or in the Highlights. Or in some recent blog posts. Among the feedback I received were comments like “you're very talented” or “you're...

This must be the first creative advice I give in this blog. But I have developed a few techniques to help with my creativity, and I would like share them on these pages. So let's begin. One that's always been fruitful is constantly looking away from my “bubble”. In some ways, it resembles the advice to go out of your comfort zone. Design For example, I attend design conferences not directly related...

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...