Relax, said the night man, We are programmed to receive. You can check out any time you like, But you can never leave. The Eagles: Hotel California I am not sure what it is about circuses and sideshows, but they fascinate me. I think they always have. I would like to think it has something [...]

Kia ora tatou: It is that time of the year again ( isn’t it always?).With Christmas on us, the insane rush to shut New Zealand for a few days will see people buying as if the shops will be shut forever, and tradesmen working 28-hour days to complete work for clients ( you want it [...]

Sometimes I forget. Sometimes I really do. Over the years, as I’ve grown up, I’ve tried to avoid the fact that it was in Christchurch. I guess my boyhood memories have not been very happy ones. I remember a city that was cold, unfriendly and not at all welcoming to a small boy fresh in [...]

When is a colour photograph? Colour photography is one of those things I imagine most of us take for granted. We assume, because we see the world in colour (or believe we do), that everybody else does, and that colour is a given. Because we see something in colour, we assume everybody else does and [...]

Kia ora tatou: Enough of the serious posts…for the moment… I’ve noticed I am prone to a disease specific to photographers, which rears its head about this time of the year. It’s probably happened every year for the last 25 or so, so when the symptoms present, I’m fully aware of what’s going on. The [...]

There is a saying: one thing is an event, two things a coincidence, and three things form a pattern. Over the last week or two I seem to have been having a recurring conversation with a variety of different people, all along the same theme. It is only after having yet another one yesterday that [...]