Kia ora tatou: A number of you sent in comments pointing out how you like looking at the images I make with one or two suggestions that I talk about how I go about doing so. Blush. Gulp. Well OK. Assuming that, I will put up a few of my own and talk about what [...]

Warning: yet another heavy-duty Post!! Kia ora tatou: A lot of years ago, my mother decided it would be good for me to learn the piano. So she sent me along to Mrs. X, a woman of (it seemed to me at the time) fearsomely advanced years. For a year or so we suffered each [...]

Warning: another heavy-duty Post!! Kia ora tatou: Enough of the gear-involved posts. It is time to get serious again. I had the recent joy of spending some time with a student and going out photographing with him. At some point he asked me a question about what he should be looking for. A fair and [...]

Kia ora tatou: The portrait is one of the oldest genres in photography. You may be interested to know that, while recording the landscape was the reason photography came into being as a technology, the portrait was the economic engine that drove its development. When people realised that they no longer had to find a [...]