ƒ/8 and be there

Find places to shoot. Share how you shot them.

Real locations, real settings, real adventures shared amongst photographers. The best part? Every photo stays yours.

Launching in the UK first · free to join · no card details
The feed

A community curated feed.

No stock, no filler. Every photo you see is real work posted by real photographers of all levels. With founding users documenting the first corners of the UK they’ve walked. See their frames develop as they come in.

What it is three things, then the rest
01 Explore · stops & scouts

Places to shoot, plans to make.

Use our map to mark your adventures and label your locations as Scouts or Stops.

A Stop is a place, and it holds the photos taken there: one shot from a lay-by or dozens around a castle. String several Stops together and you have a Stopover: a whole trip, in the order you set.

Still planning your visit? Mark it as a Scout first so it’s only viewed by you. Once you’ve shot it, you can graduate it into a Stop, which stays a private draft until you publish it.

The map also has extras to explore, such as local tree types and nearby facilities, plus rain radar and cloud cover on the Field plan.

stops and the ways they’re shot · scouts · snap the spot · rain radar · cloud cover · woodland · what’s nearby
Open the map
02 Sundial live · Cardiff

Find what you’re chasing.

Golden light, true dark or a flat morning in the woods. Open the Sundial, pick what you’re chasing, and it tells you when the light comes, which way it comes from, and which Stops near you face it.

Select one below to see tonight’s light.

Golden
15:46 – 17:00
Sunset
16:37 · 245°
Moon
2%
How Sundial works
Golden hour
○ rise ● set · amber sun, grey moon
30°60°NESWNESESWNW030060120150210240300330070809101112131415080910111213141516
Golden hour 15:46 – 17:00 · 234°–249°
hover or tap a rim dot for its time
03 Stopovers

Your journey as you walked it.

Thread your Stops into an ordered route called a Stopover. Plan one ahead, or log it as you go, but help us share these routes to their fullest with every frame and note in sequence.

How stopovers work
And the rest · the back page

Optional toggles

Everything below runs off the same Stops and the same record. Switch on the toggles best suited to what you shoot and simply ignore the rest.

Condition alerts
Will it be worth the drive?
Turn on alerts for a Stop and an hourly scan scores its next golden and night windows against the directions it’s shot in (cloud cover included).
Night mode
The dial, turned to dark
Find true darkness graded honestly with the moon’s movements and the Milky Way core’s window/bearing. more
Tides
Low and high water
Coastal Stops carry the tide. This turns on tide alerts to wait for low water and stamps every frame with the water it was shot on.
Woodland light
Flat · workable · harsh
This ranks Stops by how close they are to a wood, and you can filter by the kind of trees: broadleaved, conifer or mixed. The day’s light is read from how diffused the sun is and how windy it’s forecast to be. more
Assignments
Briefs, answered
Given yourself a specific brief for a shoot? Create an assignment and use your photographs to complete them.
Logbook
Your story
These are private by default as they allow you to detail your days in the field. Pin an entry to a Stop and publish it, and it becomes a field note others can read. The story of a Stopover is written on the Stopover itself.
Panoramas
3:1, unbroken
If you shoot wide, we show wide. We don’t crop or cut your work.
Panoramas · unbroken

Shoot 3:1, we show 3:1.

no square crops · no carousel slices · pannable edge to edge
unexposed · 3:1 the first panorama frame is waiting — Instagram would cut it into squares claim it

Posting to Instagram anyway? One click slices a pano into an ordered 4:5 carousel, your credit in the caption — the crop happens on your terms or not at all.

The charter, in plain English

Your photos are yours.
Full stop.

01 Remove a photo and our right to show it ends immediately.
02 No repost button: because no one should be able to pass off your work as their own.
03 One toggle burns credit into every copy we serve. Your name takes priority over our brand.
04 Capture data and the credit stay with your photo. GPS never leaves with it.
05 Your images never become training data. Not for us or anyone else.
06 Your personal data isn’t for sale and neither are your images.
07 How precisely your Stops show is yours to choose, and on Field, what your EXIF shows.

And when a camera signs its files, we say so: photos carrying Content Credentials wear a quiet “signed at capture” badge that’s checked by us, never assumed, and free on every plan.

These seven lines are our rights charter, in this order, in this language. Our terms make it binding and where the two overlap, the charter wins. Hold us to them. Read the full charter