Kia ora tatou: Probably because I spend too much time surfing ( and I am easily bored), I have a surfeit of sites to offer you, some useful, some interesting. Some not. Check this lot out. Or not. PhotoShop Disasters. If it is commercial and awful, you will probably find it here( see header pic). [...]
Kia ora tatou: The day I received this e-mail for a good friend who chooses to remain unnamed. Well, at least I think he does. From time to time I receive e-mails like this, and I simply cannot let them lie. On the one hand I feel an obligation to provide a considered response to [...]
ETTR-new thoughts Kia ora tatou: in all my workshops which deal with camera craft and postproduction, I’ve taught the technique of ETTR, or expose to the right. In the process I’ve made a number of assumptions which I assumed were correct, but now I’m beginning to rethink those and I want to share those thoughts [...]
Kia ora tatou: For those of you offshore or who do not have access to New Zealand Camera 2010, here is the text of my introduction. Enjoy, and feel free to comment. Seeing with my own I What is it about photography that has kept us enthralled for nearly 200 years? Each year millions of [...]
Kia ora tatou: I came across this post which I think is amazingly good advice, from an American professional. Cheryl has agreed to allow me to post it here in its entirety. Many thanks, Cheryl. Advice for Aspiring Photographers By Cheryl Jacobs Nicolai These are my thoughts, nothing more and nothing less. I get asked [...]
Not long ago I was out photographing, when the person I was with commented on the number of files I was shooting. Why do you take so many? the question came. I am feeling for the image, I replied. I am waiting for it to tell me where it is. A stunned, unhappy/unsatisfied silence ensued. [...]
As I were a shepherd on a lemon sea..and then the dream shifted. I had a vision. In that state I saw myself lying, a dragon atop my Eggs of Memory. I saw suns, stars and moons. I grew beyond. I saw the universe expanding, slowly, consistently. And I saw that for all its change, [...]
Years ago, when I was a boy, I used to devour the western novels of Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour. I used to imagine what it must be like to ride day after day across the Great Plains of the United States, where there was nothing on the horizon. Later, when I studied American history, [...]
Kia ora tatou: After 9 days, 4750 km and 5561 files, I am now back in South Africa for the next week before I begin the journey back to New Zealand. I have spent most of that time in Namibia, a country I have fallen in love with. My South African friends told me it [...]
Kai ora tatou: Suspension of service notice. I will be off-line( I suspect) for the next 12 days. in the morning i am beginning a journey to Namibia to visit the Sossuvlei and return via the Richtersveld. No quick blast up the N7. We will be going overland via die Hel and Sutherland, through Pofadder [...]
