Kia ora tatou: For the last two years Jenny Couldrey and I have organised the Innerlight workshop at Lake Waikaremoana, deep in the Te Urewera National Park in the Central North Island of New Zealand. The workshop is aimed at helping the participants to move their photography forward into a new space by focusing (pun [...]
Impressionism has much to answer for. Thank goodness. In April 1874, a relatively unknown painter called Claude Monet took part in an exhibition held at the studio of the photographer Nadar. One of his paintings, Impression, Sunrise, was so unlike anything the art critic, one Louis Leroy, had ever seen, that he was stuck for [...]
Kia ora tatou: Those of you who have done my workshops know that I often ask you to do some..ummm..gentle visualisation exercises, such as the Phone booth one. I still meet students who remind me that I put them in a phone booth for an hour and asked them to make 60 different photographs. usually [...]
The first winds of winter Then let my name be called Traveller -Basho From time to time I think about those people who, having found the photographic path that works for them, and fascinated by it, compelled to follow it, do so happily for the rest of their careers. Lucky them. The remaining few of [...]
In the clarity of wilderness light, my mind and my heart are soothed and uplifted by the serenity of creation. These are the landscapes of, and for, my spirit. -WILLIAM NEILL (From Landscape of The Spirit) What can I do in the morning? I can put on my coat; I can make a cup of [...]
This image is nearly a year old but I am bringing it back for a reason. Perhaps it is because it has taken me all this time to begin to understand it, and perhaps it is because of the conversation I had yesterday which led to me hearing some absolutely fascinating information. Since writing about [...]
When you come to my fights and I’m under the lights and you see that my footwork is false don’t count me out, at the start of the bout I’m just doing the secondary waltz doing the secondary waltz – Mark Knopfler (from the Kill to get Crimson album) I blame Mark Knopfler. It is [...]
Data: Canon 1DS Mk II, EF 100-400/4.5-5.6L, 1/640 @ f5.0, ISO 100 Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows. ::: Claude Monet [...]
