About Anthony Mills
I have loved photography since I got my first SLR camera in 1982 at the age of 13 – a Zenit EM. From leaving school at 16 until around 36 I spent many of those years working in camera stores, which gave me access to a very wide range of both new and used gear, including roughly the first decade of consumer digital cameras.
I now love venturing into nature, especially woodlands, meadows and other areas that teem with life. Adjusting to being immersed in the details of these other, parallel worlds and following the play of light and the beings within it is easily comparable to a form of meditation for me. Bringing home a few good images from this is a very satisfying bonus that I get to share with others.
In these times it is easy to be persuaded that humans are intrinsically harmful but, of course, we are nature. Many human societies have existed in harmony with the other beings of Earth. The best nature photography comes from the presence and the wonder of this relationship. This relationship is fundamentally important to human health, balance and sanity. For each of us, it is our individual choice to move toward or away from nature (as we cannot choose for the world.)
My interest in nature gained a new depth when living off-grid and I began learning more about water, 15 or more years ago. Following the work of people like Masaru Emoto, Clayton Nolte, Gerald Pollack and now Veda Austin, I have also been using water structuring flow-form devices for over a decade. The study of water is not only about chemistry – it is about energy, geometry, harmonics and very much about consciousness and us, as well. These fields of study also overlap with the areas of health, energy production, plants and gardening and even music, sound and real history and pre-historical understanding. All of these things interest me greatly.
Other hobbies include creating vector graphics, playing ukulele and some drumming, especially with others when possible.
My current photography kit
My current camera equipment is a Fujifilm X-T mirrorless system of two bodies and three lenses. For a long-time 20th century 35mm SLR user, the control layout and the handling of this Fujifilm series is a total pleasure and was instantly familiar and quick to use. I also love the size, the build quality of both the cameras and lenses, the colours and the overall image quality. There seems to be something unusual and special about the kind of thinking that went into the design of these machines.
Software and processing
I shoot RAW and JPG together and I do all of my RAW processing with DXO Pure Raw, outputting a 16bit DNG file, followed by Affinity Photo for tweaking and finishing. Pure Raw produces a very noticeable upgrade in quality, somewhat like upgrading all of the lenses. I'm amazed at what it does. Affinity's RAW processor is okay but I don't use it now. Having said that, each of the Affinity apps is excellent and the suite of three is very powerful and superb value.
The images you see here have all had minimal manipulation. Some of them are cropped, I may remove an odd blemish or little annoyance but they were all essentially created in the camera.
Thanks for reading and visiting and I wish you all good things,
Anthony
I now love venturing into nature, especially woodlands, meadows and other areas that teem with life. Adjusting to being immersed in the details of these other, parallel worlds and following the play of light and the beings within it is easily comparable to a form of meditation for me. Bringing home a few good images from this is a very satisfying bonus that I get to share with others.
In these times it is easy to be persuaded that humans are intrinsically harmful but, of course, we are nature. Many human societies have existed in harmony with the other beings of Earth. The best nature photography comes from the presence and the wonder of this relationship. This relationship is fundamentally important to human health, balance and sanity. For each of us, it is our individual choice to move toward or away from nature (as we cannot choose for the world.)
My interest in nature gained a new depth when living off-grid and I began learning more about water, 15 or more years ago. Following the work of people like Masaru Emoto, Clayton Nolte, Gerald Pollack and now Veda Austin, I have also been using water structuring flow-form devices for over a decade. The study of water is not only about chemistry – it is about energy, geometry, harmonics and very much about consciousness and us, as well. These fields of study also overlap with the areas of health, energy production, plants and gardening and even music, sound and real history and pre-historical understanding. All of these things interest me greatly.
Other hobbies include creating vector graphics, playing ukulele and some drumming, especially with others when possible.
My current photography kit
My current camera equipment is a Fujifilm X-T mirrorless system of two bodies and three lenses. For a long-time 20th century 35mm SLR user, the control layout and the handling of this Fujifilm series is a total pleasure and was instantly familiar and quick to use. I also love the size, the build quality of both the cameras and lenses, the colours and the overall image quality. There seems to be something unusual and special about the kind of thinking that went into the design of these machines.
Software and processing
I shoot RAW and JPG together and I do all of my RAW processing with DXO Pure Raw, outputting a 16bit DNG file, followed by Affinity Photo for tweaking and finishing. Pure Raw produces a very noticeable upgrade in quality, somewhat like upgrading all of the lenses. I'm amazed at what it does. Affinity's RAW processor is okay but I don't use it now. Having said that, each of the Affinity apps is excellent and the suite of three is very powerful and superb value.
The images you see here have all had minimal manipulation. Some of them are cropped, I may remove an odd blemish or little annoyance but they were all essentially created in the camera.
Thanks for reading and visiting and I wish you all good things,
Anthony