Hello, my name is Paul Cullen and I am a photographer. I just love the visual image and enjoy capturing that vision. I am also a budding software developer, creating Android apps and I am now gravitating towards web-apps, but that is a story for another blog (I’ll put links to my other blogs on my home page).

I have been capturing photographs for over forty years in a variety of ways. I was almost always the custodian of the family Kodak Brownie (Not Box – I’m not quite that old), or later, the family super 8 cine camera. I got my first SLR – a Zenit 11, when I was 17 or 18 years old. I took “pictures” of all sorts whilst my family tried to avoid being in the direct line of the lens. unperturbed,  I would take photographs of things that couldn’t run away – Landscapes, flowers, trees, buildings – to be honest – the odd family member at Christmas and other family occasions. I later attended courses – “Introduction to Photography” at the local college, which introduced me to the delights of the Darkroom – I loved the darkroom. I studied City & Guilds modules in Photography including “The Art of Colour Photography”, then OCN modules in Digital Photography Manipulation, Landscape photography and Portrait Photography at the same college. In 2009, I went away to Northumberland to complete a “Photo Adventures” course tutored by Lee Frost and in March 2010, I completed a course in Portrait and Wedding Photography @ Brooks School of Photography (Now First Point Photography) in Bournmouth.

I have mostly enjoyed Landscape,some still life and Flower photography, but I am increasingly drawn to all forms of people photography – I would like to develop (no pun intended) skills in different styles of portraits, including classic portraiture, street photography, and perhaps even boudoir and glamour photography – so, anybody interested in a bit of modelling – just let me know ;-))

For many years, my photographs was largely unseen, photography is a visual medium and needs to be viewed by others. So here it is – here are some of my photographs. I hope that you like them, but more than anything, I hope that you will leave your comments – what you like about them and what you don’t like about them – be honest.

In the time since starting this blog, I have posted numerous photographs on stock photography sites, starting with Shutterstock, Alamy, BigStock, Veer and Dreamstime before graduating to Fine Art America, 500px, PicFair, Photo4Me and a variety of others. I had a proper website but gave it up when I was selling more through the other sites. I also have an Etsy account where I sell Giclee prints. I post a lot of my images on my Instagram account paulcullenphoto. Some I post as straight pictures but increasingly, I modify my photographs with android apps, many of which involve Artificial Intelligence but unlike many A.I. images which only start with a prompt, mine usually begin with one of my original images.

I will be reviewing various photography related things such as some of the courses that I have been on, mobile phone apps that I have used and a variety of other photography related content. I hope that you can add your own reviews if you wish. I don’t want to be the only contributor – I hope that as many people as possible will get involved with the contributions and for this weblog to become a living entity. I hope, at very least that you will find it interesting and worthwhile and will visit it regularly and we will see what develops. As Microsoft used to say “Where do you want to go today?”