Archive for April, 2008

Of this and that+help required

Kia ora tatou: For those of you interested in the E-dialogue, Beth has posted a reply to my earlier letter. You can check out her response in Letter to Beth. I will be mulling on this for some time to come before I post a reply. I have just worked with a trial of a [...]

Looking back, looking forward-pictures on a coffin lid

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. ::: Robert Hughes – Art Critic ::: There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.’ – Søren Kierkegaard From [...]

Photojournalism vs. Documentary- some thoughts

“Humanity is worth more than a picture of humanity that serves no purpose other than exploitation.” -W. Eugene Smith You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world – for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone, and then no one outside learns [...]

So, punk, do ya feel lucky???

Kia ota tatou: Well, they were quick out of the repair shop. Adobe have just released Lightroom 1.4.1 and Camera Raw 4.4.1 which,according to Adobe’s Tom Hogarty, supposedly ” includes corrections for issues described below and in previous blog posts.” Interestingly, “The Lightroom and Camera Raw team apologize for any inconveniences caused by the issues [...]

LightRoom 2.0 Beta…Oh well, maybe they got it right this time…

Kia ora tatou: For those of you who love Lightroom, some good news…maybe. If you are a licensed user of the product, you can download the 2.o Beta here, and use it until August 2008…if you dare… Yes, I have, before you ask. According to Matt Kloskowski, LR 2.0 offers the following cool features:

Voyage to the Centre of the Earth…plumbing the depths

Kia ora tatou: Yesterday, a fine-art photographer friend sent me a link to an exhibition at the McNamara Gallery in Wanganui, New Zealand by a “noted” Kiwi FA photographer, Peter Peryer, and invited me to give my thoughts. I dutifully followed the link, and studied the work. And studied it some more. And studied it [...]