Robert May Photography — Journal

This photo, which I previously posted in a short collection of eclipse photos in Cardiff, was picked this week (8th of September 2026) for The Guardian's "Reader's Best Photographs" section.

The "AI" companies are stealing data to train their models, and the authorities in most countries are seemingly A-OK with this.

DxO PhotoLab version 10 is out today and I've had a chance to take an early look at the new features.

A few months ago it was coming up to my mum's birthday, and I wanted to give her a few photo prints of family, including her recently passed dog, Eddy.

Choosing film cameras, now there's a dilemma.

Sometimes nature acquiesces and delivers that perfect sunset right when you need it, and it made for a fantastic backdrop for Will & Sophie's wedding reception at Garth Farm on the top of the Garth mountain, just outside of Cardiff.

I love cameras, and with that comes the awful realisation that I will never own all the cameras.

Back in 1999 I saw the total solar eclipse whilst on a family holiday somewhere in Devon.

While the sun has been relentless here in Wales the past few months, it does bring with it some benefits (though I will never again speak ill of how rainy it usually is here), and at the end of July I had the opportunity of photographing a rooftop jazz ev…

I buy and sell cameras in an antiques market here in Cardiff (read more over on camerasetc.wales), which is really just an excuse to play with the near infinite backlog of cameras that have existed since photography first appeared.