For the thousands of you who have already downloaded our free app PhotoTorial, we’ve now released a PRO version which includes ALL of the available in-app purchase content for a one-time only price of US$14.99.  Check it out on iTunes here. PhotoTorial Pro has over two hundred pages worth of information and photos all designed to help you become a better and more successful photographer, from unleashing your creative potential right through to developing and running your own business. The app includes an IMAGE ALBUMS section… READ MORE >

Here’s a little science lesson for you.  The colour of the sky is perceived as “blue” due to the tiny particles and chemicals present in the earth’s atmosphere between ourselves and the sun.  As we look through these particles, they create the colour we see in the sky.  Closest to the earth, those particles are mainly nitrogen and oxygen molecules.  However there will also be dust, debris and pollutants stirred up by the earth’s inhabitants (yes, that’s us).  Commonly referred to as smog, in some countries… READ MORE >

Don’t forget you can order a number of Chris’s stunning photos as prints in our online gallery.  If you don’t see the image you are looking for in the gallery, just let us know and we’ll pop it up there for you. From stunning canvases through to modern metal prints, or simply a photographic enlargement framed to your specifications…  The site is very simple and easy to use, with a range of different personalised options you can choose from to get exactly the photographic product you… READ MORE >

A quick visit to Wellington over the weekend where Chris ran a workshop “Magic Arms and Gaffa Tape” at the recent PSNZ Annual Convention. Hosted by Macalister Group in Auckland, Chris’s presentation covered the tools of trade required by a travel photographer.  He had the room kitted out with some of the usual – and the not so usual items – that he regularly uses on his travel photography assignments.  (You can see a list of some of the more unusual items Chris doesn’t leave home… READ MORE >

Congratulations to DELENA NATHURAN, April’s winner for subscribing to Beyondf8.com. Delena has won a brand new World Travel USB Charger 2, as well as a Tuff TTL wireless flash trigger from Hahnel.  We will be sending these out to Delena shortly. World Travel Charger: Ideal mobile USB power source for travel all over the world.  The charger is supplied with interchangeable plugs for use in Europe, UK, USA and Australia.  It has two USB ports, allowing you to charge two devices at the same time. A… READ MORE >

On a recent photography assignment I was creating some very hi-res animal portraits at the Auckland Zoo.  These images are part of a project I am doing in conjunction with some of my sponsors and the Auckland Zoo, which will bring exposure to the great breeding and in-the-wild conservation projects that the Zoo is involved with. The resulting images will be on display for the first time ever as part of Auckland’s Festival of Photography during an exhibition I am holding at Shed Five in Wellesley… READ MORE >

Whoa!  A photography website with hot deals?  Check it out… Like all of us in the photographic industry, much of our time when NOT spent looking through the lens of a camera (well Chris that is, I’m usually trying to look over his shoulder)… is spent trawling through the internet looking at various pages of information ABOUT photography. Even after 25 years working commercially in the industry, it is still such an interesting topic! This is because it is ever evolving, ever changing…  Someone is always… READ MORE >

It’s not uncommon at rural landing strips around the world to buzz the runway before landing to ensure no grazing cattle, wandering wildlife or other ‘native guests’ are in the path of the landing plane…  But buzzing the beach to clear the foraging grizzly bears in Alaska was certainly something different!  And yet it’s a common theme to my arrival into Silver Salmon Creek Lodge as part of the “Alaskan Grizzly Bear” photo tour that I run each year in the Lake Clark National Park area…. READ MORE >

Its that time again…  Spread the word and have all your photography friends and family subscribe to Beyondf8.com so they can get all the same exciting photography stories, news and reviews you do, and they will go in the draw to win some free product from one of our great sponsors – Hahnel. Up for grabs for all new subscribers for the month of April only we have one Hahnel World Travel Charger 2 (a very handy little device that has 2 USB outlets in the… READ MORE >

You heard it here first!  Only a week to go and our brand new “PhotoTorial” app will be available on the App Store.  WE CAN’T WAIT!! As always with these things, the development process took slightly longer than we expected, which is a good thing and a bad thing.  Good because it meant we had more time to put more effort, more content, and more commitment into the entire process – which has been a hugely thrilling experience for us.  And bad because it has meant… READ MORE >

Chris McLennan has been a visitor to and photographer of Fiji for nearly 20 years now, which makes his ongoing dedication to capturing beautiful images of these stunning islands all the more impressive.  Like people often say, “it must be something in the water” that keeps him coming back. Considering that Fiji is made up of over 330 islands, plus another 500 ‘islets’, of all shapes and sizes and all floating atop crystal clear blue waters of varying hues and shades, that “there is something in… READ MORE >