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The all new Nik Collection 3 is released today and I've been lucky enough as an ambassador to be asked to road test the software over the last few weeks. Stay tuned for a facebook live event on my Big Ladder Photographer Facebook page (Monday 8th June) where I will...

Probably the number one factor in all of the Big Ladder images is weather and with a forecast of "several inches" of snow for the Scottish Highlands last week I decided to drop everything and jump on a plane to Glasgow. The resulting image of The Glenfinnan Viaduct...

The last few weeks have been spent shooting both video and still images on the South Downs of England for English Wine Producer Nyetimber. The aim of the shoot was to provide the company with publicity for the harvest as well as produce promotional imagery for...

The Big Ladder is proud to have signed as an official ambassador of The Nik Software Collection. Nik Software is a suite of Photoshop and Lightroom plugins formally owned by google now owned by DXO. Many images in the Big Ladder archive use HDR Efex Pro this involves...

As part of my work for the Royal Horticultural Society I was asked this week to fly over the garden designed by The Duchess Of Cambridge at this weeks Hampton Court garden Festival. When news of Kate's Chelsea garden design debut first broke, it led to an overnight...

The Big Ladder photographer specialises in aerial photography and videography. There is no better way to illustrate a building or general construction project than dynamic stills and video from the air. The Big Ladder recently joined forces with the Royal...

The Big Ladder is featured in this months edition of Digital Camera Magazine. The article written by Chris explains how he identifies subjects to be photographed based on how news worthy they may be. Even a pretty landscape is often shot with a news angle in mind in...