Archive for January, 2007

Heads-up

Kia ora tatou: Just advance warning for any of you thinking of a holiday abroad combined with photography. I will be doing at least one workshop for the University of South-East Alaska in Sitka in June/July, the Northern Summer. I will be teaching Creativity,previsualisation and digital skills. Come with me to Alaska, make wonderful photographs, [...]

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more [...]

And soon I heard a roaring wind

And soon I heard a roaring wind: It did not come anear; But with its sound it shook the sails, That were so thin and sere. The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried about! And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars [...]

It’s all a reality

Kia ora tatou: If you thought global warming was a myth, have another look. I received this email from Virginia. Enough said! Dear Tony, Part of my heaven has disappeared! Ivory Glacier has gone. It lay couched in its little cirque in a hanging valley, 600 ft above the Stag River inland from Hokitika. Beautiful [...]