Have you been thinking about travelling to Tibet? I came across some tips for photography in Tibet. it is obviously not written by a native English speaker…at least, I hope not. I sense the PRFH’s ( Proof Reader From Hell) ascending from the Stygian Regions to exact punishment. I dare him/her to comment here… Note [...]
“It is occasionally possible, just for brief moments, to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many mansions in the head and express something – perhaps not much, just something – of the crush of information that presses in on us from the way a crow flies over and the way [...]
Kia ora tatou: There I was, tearing my hair out ( see pic below), trying to get the driver for my screen calibration device to work, and this popped into my Inbox. It helped, it really helped. To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity 1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses [...]
Kia ora tatou: MaryJo sent me an email detailing this vital piece of photographer’s kit . I checked my diary to see whether the months had slipped by and it was April 1. Then I followed the link. I am still not sure about the date…. So I include her letter in toto.. Like shooting [...]
Kia ora tatou I have been in training. After a lifetime of being owned by cats, I am free now. I do not have to come at their beck and call. For all their larger-than-life personalities and unique character traits (Beastly was just that, a cunning tormenter of the local dogs, especially smaller ones ,and [...]
Kia ora tatou: Not the usual stuff I publish here, but I thought you might find it interesting. I subscribe to a blog called How to Save the World, published by a Canadian scientist, Dave Pollard. It’s often depressing, but never boring. This is a recent post( I hope you have a thing for maths!) [...]
Kia ora tatou: After the drudgery of workaday tidal waves and reading my heavy-duty posts, may I present: What the Duck, a series of comic strips for photographers. Artist Aaron Johnson describes WTD as coming about as a blog filler, and says it has since continued at the demand of tens of people. Whatever. Check [...]
Kia ora tatou: The portrait is one of the oldest genres in photography. You may be interested to know that, while recording the landscape was the reason photography came into being as a technology, the portrait was the economic engine that drove its development. When people realised that they no longer had to find a [...]
Kia ora tatou: I want to share a story. A few years ago I did a workshop in portraiture. Among the students was this guy called Garry. He got right into it and made some good images. Over the next year or two he worked through my classes, getting better all the time. I remember [...]
