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May 7

Fine Art Print Shop - Now Open For Submissions!

We're delighted to bring your our brand new Fine Art Print Shop here at TDL! A way for artists to make some extra cash from their work,...

Bex Maini

Mar 9

Under 500 Gallery - Round 2

The Under 500 discovery feature was such a success last time, we published many of the images from the gallery in Edition 2: Celebrate...

This Detailed Life

Mar 5

Digital Editions of This Detailed Life Magazine!

We're VERY excited to announce that we're adding digital editions of the magazine to the TDL shop! And we have a fantastic launch offer...

Bex Maini

Mar 2

This Detailed Life Membership

Did you know you can be a member of This Detailed Life on our website?! Benefits include automatic blog post notifications whenever we...

Loopy Loops! What are Instagram loops and why should you join one?

Bex Maini

Feb 16

Loopy Loops! What are Instagram loops and why should you join one?

You may have seen your fellow photographers on Instagram taking part in "loops" and wondered what exactly that means, how it can benefit...

Clubhouse - a photographer's guide to the new audio app and how to find our TDL rooms!

This Detailed Life

Feb 12

Clubhouse - a photographer's guide to the new audio app and how to find our TDL rooms!

We're really enjoying delving into conversations on the new Clubhouse app but not everyone has discovered this fab new place to hang out...

Bex Maini

Feb 9

Useful links for newbies ;)

I thought it might be helpful to write a little post with some handy links to keep together. You can also find all this and more on our...

Bex Maini

Sep 9, 2020

About our "Under 500" Discovery Feature

Our Discovery Feature: "Under 500" is drumming so much interest we thought we'd tell you little bit more about it. Instagram is full of...

Bex Maini

Aug 16, 2020

Feedback Survey - results so far

I thought I'd share some of the feedback we've received from our survey sent out to contributors initially, to help guide us on our way...

Theme weeks on @ThisDetailedLife Instagram hub - SHADOWS

Bex Maini

Jul 27, 2020

Theme weeks on @ThisDetailedLife Instagram hub - SHADOWS

I'd thought about doing theme weeks before but hadn't implemented the idea. When I saw a lot of inspiring photos with shadows in our main...

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