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Support your local community!

Art is all very well, but I think it’s important to use our skills to assist our communities. Sonja and I have been donating our time to help with the Gravel in Paradise cycle event in Otago by providing images from each race to go on Facebook, plus higher resolution versions for newspaper coverage and […]

This is not a book review

But this is (of sorts) I keep going on about the importance of printing as the fastest way to improve our photography. The reason being that putting a photograph up on a wall where it can be seen every day allows us to live with it in a way that develops a deeper appreciation of […]

Using film cameras (the older the better)

Digital has made our processing so much easier and faster, but there is still a place for film for those with the enthusiasm to give it a go. The easiest path is to send the negatives out for processing and the scan and digitise the  result. You don’t need a high quality scanner to get […]

Forrester Gallery exhibition coming

I’ve been working on a new set of images in my “Stones” series. I began making “portraits” of standing stones in 2007, and this will be the third exhibition in the project. These photographs were made in Carnac in Brittany in 2016 with the Fujifilm X-T1 and the process of working on the prints has […]

Some lockdown screencasts

While we’ve been in lockdown here in New Zealand due to the covid-19 virus, I made a two screencasts and a video for our local photographic society here in North Otago. I thought it may be fun to share them: