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 [...]
Kia ora tatou: I saw this image at Wedderburn, when Sue ( who has done a number of my workshops) and I were discussing the direction her work was taking . She is in her final year of a degree majoring in photography at UniTec. We talked about the work and I asked if she [...]
Kia ora tatou: As part of my mentoring programme, students are asked to carry out three assignments in which they look at their place in the pantheon of the medium. Jenny has submitted this essay , and an amazing piece of scholarship it is… Pour a glass of whatever you fancy, sit back, and read…. [...]
Kia ora tatou: From time to time people send me images to comment upon (my apologies if i do take some time to respond; it will improve when they introduce DLT aka Daylight Lengthening Time), and I love it when it happens. Sometimes i must be polite, but most of the time I am stunned [...]
Kia ora tatou: Time for a Sermon on the Mount. On Monday night I had the singular honour of being asked to judge the Canterbury Roundup, an interclub battle for projected Images, along with Ian Smith (ex-Photo Access) and Linda Lee, a Fine Art photography teacher from Christchurch. Nice to see clubs looking for input [...]
Kia ora tatou: Continuing the theme of Christmas on the Ezine… Garry sent in this image, shot at the Christchurch Santa Parade on 2 Dec. This guy is really enjoying himself….. Somehow this image brings a few words to mind… Every Who Down in Who-ville Liked Christmas a lot… But the Grinch, Who lived just [...]
Kia ora tatou: I will shortly remove the Your Images page. There are a number of treasons for this (no, not a typo!): I am about to (hopefully) replace it with a dialogue, along the lines of Letter to Marthinus Leaving the images in the main body of the post allows you to make comments [...]
