This year’s Gravel in Paradise series was a great event with cyclists from New Zealand competing in the three events in Middlemarch, Oamaru and Palmerston. A small selection of photos from our coverage of the event is on line here.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The photographs are hung and the exhibition is now open and runs to the 22nd November. Many thanks to the staff at the Forrester Gallery for the work they have done.
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 […]
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:
There can be no delight in considering a technique that is without motive