Mike Hall: photographer, filmmaker, marketer and musician in Brighton

Not pickinga lane
Photography · Film · Marketing · Music

Photography
Street · Travel · Brighton
Made inBrighton
14 Lightroom presets · Mobile and desktop

Film
Weddings · Short films · Reels
Writing
AI · Marketing · Photography · Making things
- 15 October 2026Stop Hiding the AIAgencies use AI across every part of the work, and a lot of us still have a reflex to keep quiet about it. That needs to stop.
- 18 July 2026Investing in YourselfI turned 40 and the only thing I actually wanted was a £3,000 monitor. This isn't really about the monitor - it's about why we'll invest in everything except ourselves, and why that's the wrong instinct.
- 23 March 2026I Built a YouTube Thumbnail Tool in One Evening with Claude CodeLast week I built my website in one evening. Seven days later I built a working browser-based thumbnail generator. The gap between 'I wish this existed' and 'I just built it' has never been smaller.



