Kia ora tatou: My friend Eva, one of the most talented artists I have met, sent me this essay, written by Minor White, a photographer who has been an inspiration to me for number of years. Many thanks, Eva. I hope you don’t mind-it needs to be shared.. It couldn’t have come at a more [...]

Kia ora tatou: Marthinus has replied! There has been a slight hiatus, while he went around all the tennis clubs in South Africa, collecting every spare ball they had. Now he has served them all, at once! Marthinus, this is a very profound and thought-provoking letter. I am deeply grateful for what you have to [...]

“It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs” -Albert Einstein Kia ora tatou: If you have been watching the news, you will see the horror unfolding in Tibet and the Chinese governments’s attempts to vilify the Dalai Lama. They maintain that we [...]

  It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, [...]

Kia ora tatou: I promised to lift this post from deep down in the archives, dust it off and repost it. Think of it a more as a consciousness-raising exercise than a 20 000 word treatise on the subject. There are plenty of how-to links on the Net. Look here and here. Oh, and here. [...]

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. ~Minor White   Digital photography offers the promise of doing away with the phrase I hope it will come out. Well, it does and [...]