John Hooton Photography

07/02/2018

Taking 'budget photography' to a new level. Watch 'Starman' LIVE!

LIVE NOW! SpaceX Live Views of Starman CAR IN SPACE! On February 6th 3:45pm EST SpaceX launched their amazing Falcon Heavy rocket. In the nose of the rocket ...

07/11/2017

Must try this sometime!

This image was taken on November 4th, 2017 at 4:19 am in Titusville, Florida. It shows the International Space Station (with a crew of six currently onboar

02/09/2017

Two photos of the same subject, one taken with a Nikon P7800 Coolpix and one taken with the iPhone 7+ using the portrait lens. Spot the difference!

24/06/2017

Spot the difference! To the casual observer these may be mistaken for the same butterfly or common 'cabbage white'. However, they are two totally different species, the Large White and Green Veined White. The difference is also explained in the appearance of the caterpillars. Note the somewhat camouflaged green caterpillar at the top of the caterpillar picture which will become a Green Veined White while the others will emerge as Large Whites. Green Veined Whites are common enough, so see if you can spot one next time you see a white butterfly!

14/05/2017

Time flies...

Read the winning reviews from our writing competition.

03/05/2017

The sort of thing I was doing 46 years ago for the Evening Argus. These were known as 'space fillers' and I was free to find my own 'stories'.

07/09/2016

View from the Shard, London, taken by Adam Hooton.

28/07/2016

3 Cheese Mediterranean Vegetable Quiche
It is a long time since I made this, but digging through some old iPhone 5 photos today served as a reminder. Remember, the best camera is the one in your hand!
Recipe at this link... http://hooton.photo/?page_id=3018

14/07/2016

Facing reality...

Ain't that the truth...

26/06/2016

One of the great eccentrics and masters of life, photographer Bill Cunningham dies following a stroke.

In nearly 40 years working for The New York Times, Mr. Cunningham operated both as a chronicler of fashion and as an unlikely cultural anthropologist.

22/06/2016

Quick and easy freestyle spaghetti Boil pasta, meanwhile chop and fry garlic 2 min, add meat 2 min, add mushrooms, add cream, add black pepper, add parmesan, loosen with pasta water, toss in spaghetti and parsley. Delicious!
http://hooton.photo/?page_id=3002

09/06/2016

Tonight is the first of three consecutive Moth Nights. Take a torch, a camera with a macro lens and a flash, and search amongst the shrubbery. Tempt them with sugar soaked rope or paint bark with a syrupy sugar solution. Good hunting!

A week to go until 2016 and there are lots of lovely moths on the wing in readiness. Here's a Poplar Hawk-moth, Cream-spot Tiger and Small Elephant Hawk-moth caught in a Cornish garden a couple of nights ago. www.mothnight.info