Kia ora tatou: As some of you  know, I am currently the chairperson of the PSNZ Judging Accreditation Panel. The panel is hoping to upgrade the current system and streamline the existing processes. I will be travelling to The National Convention in Invercargill in April this year, where I will be running a session, explaining [...]

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it’s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer. – Eve Arnold “I want to be the tripod, the light meter, the motor drive.” —Eve Arnold on using the simplest equipment Kia ora [...]

Kia ora tatou: Over Christmas, as we holidayed, I took advantage of a new technology offered by Amazon, and offered my own bookshop (well, a virtual one). These days, it seems ‘real’ bookshops are vanishing fast. There are still the chain-store variety (should that be chainsaw), which offer container-loads of remaindered crap. But real bookshops, [...]

Kia ora tatou: “I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.” It is that [...]

I like photographers—you don’t ask questions. – Ronald Reagan Kia ora tatou: Teaching in Christchurch. After a year of being out of teaching photography in Christchurch, after UC shut down their continuing Education programme, I have been looking for a place to teach. Many of the places I might have used were damaged or too [...]

Kia ora tatou: I don’t normally foam at the mouth, but Adobe Greed is sure to get me going. Read this open letter to Adobe from Scott Kelby. He makes his living from showing the rest of us how to use PhotoShop, and is THE leader in image editing education. Maybe the executives at Adobe [...]