This is the online photo gallery of Everley Photography, set up in 2009 by Simon McBeath & Tracey Inglis. Here you will find a selection of digital images that are on display, first and foremost, because we like them. Hopefully you may like some of them too, and if you feel suitably inspired by any of them, they are for sale. Please see the Purchase link (left) for more details.

One thing you won't find here is any pretentious post-justification to explain why a particular photo was taken, or why it 'works'. We'll let the photos speak for themselves, and we'll let you judge the photos for yourselves.

The range of equipment with which our photos were taken has been as diverse as the photos too. Some were taken on 35mm film (slide and colour negative) on Canon SLRs and compacts. Most were taken on Canon DSLRs, and some have come from digital compacts too. What matters, we feel, is the final image, not the type of camera or lens with which it was taken. Having said that, one of us (guess who?) likes collecting lenses and accessories, and attempting to apply 'clever' techniques, the other is content to allow the camera to do the techncal stuff so that she (that's a giveaway then...) can concentrate on composition. And who's to say if either approach is right or wrong? We'd bet nobody told Monet he was applying the paint wrongly, or Da Vinci that he couldn't paint a woman smiling for toffee! And no, we're not comparing our work with theirs. We just think that photography, like any other form of art, is what you want it to be.

Post processing
People go to different lengths on their PCs and Macs post processing their digital images. Having been brought up on 35mm film it is perhaps inevitable that we aspire to get images 'right' in the camera so that minimal post-processing is needed or desirable. Having said that, there is no right or wrong here and we are certainly not averse to a degree of adjustment to exposure, contrast, saturation and sharpness, and until digital image capture is equal to good quality film it would be foolish to pass up the benefits of these adjustments. But our aim will always be to produce images that are as faithful to the original scene as possible using photographic rather than computational techniques.

Please feel free to browse around our Gallery categories, and if you like any of the photos enough to want to buy some prints, we'd love to hear from you.