A Matter of softness and sharpness-Blaming Rembrandt
Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too – photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny but that carry with them a reminder of community. – Robert Adams Craft forms, and Art informs. -TB Kia ora tatou: In a way I blame [...]
Published on 16 February 2012, under Thinking about Photography and Art Read the full article →A Picture of Dorian Gray-the preface
Kia ora tatou: I have always been a fan of Oscar Wilde. In spite of his peculiar system of morality, he always lived his life on the square and took a particularly idiosyncratic route. In spite of being at odds with the Victorian ethos, his genius shone through. it has been many years since I [...]
Published on 26 January 2012, under Thinking about Photography and Art Read the full article →My Adobe Diet-feedback.
Okay, Mr Adobe, you win. I cannot live without you. There. It is out in the open. Now let me explain. Not long before Christmas, infuriated by the way in which Adobe were changing their pricing model to make even more money, and cutting out all those legacy users with CS3 and CS4, I began [...]
Published on 25 January 2012, under Geek Read the full article →PSNZ’s Most Wanted: Your images
Monday, January 16th, 2012, Shout outKia 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 [...]
Read the full article →Shipping News Vol. 234- the camera fetishist edition
Monday, January 16th, 2012, Shout outIf 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 [...]
Read the full article →Shipping news- the techy expurgated version (again)
Friday, January 6th, 2012, Shout outKia 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, [...]
Read the full article →Photographic Journeys…allowing the man in the Technicolour Dreamcoat
Thursday, January 5th, 2012, Thinking about Photography and ArtLately my journeys and the photographs I make have begun to overlap. The pictures inform my journey, the journey informs my images. And as will happen when we begin to look in the rear-view mirror, a trend will emerge. Sometimes this will be a radiant butterfly or a long winding road, mapped perfectly. Occasionally however, [...]
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