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Discover photography's history in a series of blogs Based on research in the RPS's Journal archive from 1853 X-Ray Photography Find out how the introduction or X-rays, or the new photography, was repo...

Early X-ray photography in the RPS Journal In the 31 January 1896 issue of The Photographic Journal, an article by J. W. Gifford described testing a new photographic technology: “On trying this arrang...

Irish Sea Irish Sea Portpatrick across to Whitehead/Kilmuckridge across to Trefasser Shooting the Breeze, Barry Quatermass Shipping Forecast South 7 to severe gale 9 veering southwest 4 to 6. Rough o...

Malin Malin Mallaig to Portpatrick/across to Whitehead Isle of Storm & Isle of Iona, Thomas Andy Branson Shipping Forecast Variable, mainly northeast, 3 to 5. Smooth or slight, occasionally modera...

Hebrides Hebrides Durness to Mallaig Eilean Glas Lighthouse, Colin Balfour LRPS Shipping Forecast Southeasterly 7 to severe gale 9, occasionally 6 at first, then increasing storm 10 at times in Hebrid...

Forth Forth Bamburgh to Stonehaven Belhaven Bridge, Colin Balfour LRPS Shipping Forecast West or southwest 4 to 6. slight or moderate, occasionally rough later. Showers. Good. Car Rocks, Chris Cullen ...

Fair Isle Fair Isle Wick to Durness Guarding Scapa flow, Jean Robson Shipping Forecast Northeast 3 to 5, becoming variable 2 to 4. Slight or moderate, occasionally rough at first. Occasional drizzle, ...

Tyne Tyne Scarborough to Bamburgh Dunstanburgh Castle, David Pringle Shipping Forecast South becoming cyclonic 3 to 5, then west 2 to 4 later. Smooth or slight, becoming slight or moderate in Forties....

Humber Humber Hemsby to Scarborough The sun after the storm, Alistair How Shipping Forecast South or southwest 6 to gale 8. Rain then squally showers. Sea moderate or rough.

Thames Thames Deal to Hemsby Thames, Victoria Robb Shipping Forecast Northwest 4-6, becoming south 4 to 6, intermittent rain at times good, occasionally poor.

Dover Dover Eastbourne to Deal Fairlight Cove Beach, Kevin Goodwin Shipping Forecast Southwest 3 or 4 increasing 5 to 7, veering west later. Slight or moderate. Rain later. Good, occasionally poor lat...

Wight Wight Poole to Eastbourne Sailing past the Isle of Wight, Sarah Patton Shipping Forecast West or southwesterly 6 to gale 8, decreasing 4 to 6

Portand Portland Brixham to Poole Fisherman's Rest, Lynda Piper Shipping Forecast Easterly or northeasterly 3 to 5 Low Water Fishing, Peter Hubert Shipping Forecast Portland Plymouth variable 2 to 4. ...

Plymouth Plymouth Lands End to Brixham Bigbury, Anna Stevenson Shipping Forecast Plymouth South or Southwest 4 To 6, occasionally 7 in Humber, Thames and Plymouth, perhaps gale 8. Moderate or rough, o...

Lundy Lundy Kilmuckridge across to Trefasser/down to Lands End Puffins landing on Skokholm, Richard Draper Shipping Forecast Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea, southwest 3 or 4, veering northwest 4 to 6. Smoo...

Bertram Sinkinson OBE HonFRPS Bertram C Sinkinson was born in 1909. He was artistically inclined and attended art school before training in photography with the long-established Birmingham studio of W...

Madame Yevonde Yevonde Philone Middleton (1893–1975) was a studio photography who used the professional name Madame Yevonde. She produced a remarkable series of colour photographs using the Vivex pro...

Julia Fullerton-Batten FRPS is a fine-art photographer renowned for her highly cinematic visual storytelling. Her large-scale projects are based around specific themes. Each image in the project embel...

Please note: This article contains references to suicide which some individuals may find distressing. Kath is a portrait and self-portrait photographer, speaker and mentor, specialising in transformat...

Marge Bradshaw is a socially engaged documentary and portrait photographer interested in people, place, and heritage. She uses a mixture of photography and ethnographic research to share the stories o...