Kia ora tatou:

The NY Times has an interesting article on the future of professional photography, depressing for those seeking to make a living from it, good for amateurs who want to make a little money on the side. You may or may not know, but Getty Images have editors trawling Flickr, looking for work to buy/license… If you are there, you are in with a chance….Anyway, here is the article….

For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path

By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD

By the time Matt Eich entered photojournalism school in 2004, the magazine and newspaper business was already declining.

But Mr. Eich had been shooting photographs since he was a child, and when he married and had a baby during college, he stuck with photography as a career.

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Kia ora tatou:

This e-mail arrived in my inbox the other day, and after reading it, I felt a need to share it with you. So, many thanks, Alan, for getting this to me, and for all the obvious research you have done. I’m going to post this, and then make my reply afterwards.

A word of warning about new Western Digital MyBook USB drives bundled software

At one of Tony’s recent courses he reminded me that I shouldn’t be trusting my valuable data to a Seagate USB drive when he saw me using one, his preferred option being Western Digital. A recent visit to Dick Smith’s sale gave me the opportunity to replace my drive with a Western Digital, so I thought I should share my experience with you all.

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Snow over Little Mt. Ida

Kia ora tatou:

The workshop season is underway…..

1. Winterlight Workshop One is almost full, but there is room on the second workshop. If the thought of  working in the fabulous Central Otago landscape and making stunning photographs, eating great food and drinking fine Otago wines appeals, then be in. We have moved this year’s workshop nearer to the beginning of July to  get the hoar frost. And Ken Ring reckons this winter will be amazing (ly cold)… Read about the workshop here. I dare you OZ readers to come across for it….
   
2. The Innerlight workshop at Lake Waikaremoana is filling as well. If you saw the results of last year’s participants in the exhibition now open, you will know the amazing results they achieved. A few places remain.Note: entry to the workshop is by portfolio or to those who have participated in Winterlight or a freeman Patterson workshop, since it follows on from topics taught on those. Read more here.
3. Towards Creativity- From Photography to Art.I have a new workshop planned for mid-April at the Braemar Lodge in Hanmer Springs, a result of people asking me how  I go about making images like Religion is… It  will interest all of you who want to take your picture-making to a new level, beyond pure photography/representation to art/expression. I have been evolving a new set of techniques and approaches over the last 18 months and I am itching to share them and work with you, before I leave for South Africa to get married. You can read about it here. Strictly limited to 12 participants.

Out There

I have begun following a new line of enquiry.

I have been thinking (already I can hear the intakes of breath, the hisses of concern, sense brows beginning to furrow, and hear the sounds of hooves disappearing over the horizon). But there is some thinking I need to share with you, a discussion I would like to open, one in which hopefully you will all participate. If it engenders discussion, debate and especially disagreement, then all well and good, because I believe that all of us need at some point in our photographic journey, to look at what we are doing and consider it in a wider context. In doing so we may well find the threads of a new path, one which is uniquely our own. I very much doubt that I will be able to get through all of this in a single post, and I expect these musings may require several essays on the subject.

So, without further ado, let me launch. Realise, however, that this is the beginning of a journey and my opinions may change at any time…it is a work in progress, but I sense a need to share.

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