ipernity: Gavin Johnson

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Updated on: 05 May 2026.

Travel, album created on 08 Feb 2026

24 items in total.

Plants, album created on 08 Feb 2026

16 items in total.

Landscapes, album created on 20 Jan 2026

19 items in total.

Will using an AI reviewer help make me a better photographer? - 5 weeks ago

I've been reprocessing a few old RAW files with Lightroom recently, and uploaded one here as my 'picture of the day'. As AI chatbots have been helpful in setting up my IT environment, I wondered how it would fare as a critical eye. Here's the picture I uploaded: I gave Claude AI the following prompt: I'd like to try something different. I will upload a photograph, and I want you to critique it. I'm not looking for flattery; I want an objective assessment, and practical suggesti…

In defence of saving (and revisiting) those old photos that didn’t make the cut.
- 16 Mar 2026

The days of super-cheap digital storage are gone for now, so it’s tempting to clear out those old images that never got properly processed, and make room for the new stuff. I’ve been discovering that I can get some good photographs out of yesterday’s bad ones with today’s technology.
Moving away from Flickr
- 13 Feb 2026

Now I’m retired, I’ve started thinking about where I spend my money, and with the current state of the world, how much of it I want to give to huge companies and their billionaire owners. I’ve been a paid member of Flickr since 2008, and with my annual renewal coming up I had a look round for alternatives.