Archive for June, 2008

0-100 in 6 months-the Amazon habit

In a recent post, I talked about my favourite books. Well I have been adding to them. My collection of PhotoShop How-to’s has suddenly mushroomed, courtesy of a nasty and virulent Amazon habit. There is a reason for this. An expensive reason. I have just upgraded my 1Ds Mk II to the MK III. Apart [...]

Wireless broadband..a cautionary tale

Kia ora tatou: The story goes like this.. A close friend has wireless broadband at home and runs Mac and PC on an Apple Airport. Over the last 3 months his capped 6Gb plan kept tipping over into dialup mode. He couldn’t understand why. He put it down to his 10-year old daughter’s Limewire habit [...]

A journey

Kia ora tatou: A friend gave me this poem the other day. Prophetic, somehow. It seemed appropriate to accompany it with this image… The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you

The woods are lonely, dark, and deep

Sometimes, when we least expect it, life can come full circle. I am in the trees again, back amongst the beloved exotics of my boyhood. We have come down to the forest to make work, to explore our image-making. We leave the cars behind us and as we step under the dripline rim of the [...]