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Thursday
Feb022012

[ Image Intermission ]

I shot a roll of film at Lake Minnewanka (outside Banff) last Sunday morning. I was up early in the hopes of catching a nice sunrise, but all I got was cold, sleet & wind. The negatives from that roll came back this evening along with some low-res preview scans… I’ll make some high-res scans of the selects and stick ‘em up on 500px, the one below being my favourite:

It’s a simply stunning place to visit, even when the weather is crap. I hope to have better conditions next time I’m up there. 

More coming soon… 

Tuesday
Jan312012

Get The Finger Out

A powerful video from TED providing a proverbial kick-in-the-ass:

For me, photographically, I’ve got a bunch of personal projects floating around in my head that I keep putting off. Not any more, starting today I’m going to make the connections required to get the ball rolling.

The finger is out. More coming soon…

Monday
Jan232012

The All-New Fotoshop! 

This is a fun video, but there’s so much truth to it. Every single cover of every beauty magazine I’ve seen in the past number of years has clearly been digitally (over) enhanced. Anyway, the debate over whether such manipulation of images should be allowed is one for another day. In the meantime enjoy, or loathe, depending on which side of the fence you reside at:

 

More coming soon…

Monday
Jan162012

[ Image Intermission ]

more coming soon…

Tuesday
Jan102012

Working Towards the Dream

I haven’t always been one for making new years resolutions, if there’s something that needs changing I don’t see the point in waiting until January! In the last few years that has changed. It was a little over two years ago while I was sitting at home with my feet up when I decided to bite the bullet and start writing down what I’d been learning about photography… a blog was formed. While it’s grown and changed since then, the main purpose remains - to help others avoid my photographic mistakes. 

I find it interesting to look back at last years post about my plans for 2011 and see that even though I’ve flunked on a couple of the resolutions (I shot very little live music & didn’t always have a ‘proper’ camera with me), for the most part I’ve fulfilled what I set out to do. This year there is no list of resolutions, just a determination to work towards a dream… a dream that has become more clear over the past year or so:

Aside from being a scribble in my notebook, the dream is a building of my own. It will contain:

  • A fully working studio
  • A large gallery space, open to all kinds of artists
  • A stage, with open-mic nights for emerging talent & gig space available for established bands/groups/artists
  • A cafe/bistro serving good honest food and drinks
  • An environment that encourages and nurtures the arts
  • A roof garden

Unless I start doing the lotto and actually win, this dream of mine is not one that’ll be realised for a long time, in fact I’m probably further from it now than I was last year in a 9-to-5 office job. It’s proving difficult to make a decent living solely from photography, as expected. So while I may need to take a short-term IT contract or two in order to get by, everything I do from now on is intended to get me closer to the dream.

You’re all invited to the opening night!

More coming soon…

Saturday
Dec242011

Happy Christmas!

I’m likely to be the least religious person you’ll ever know. I also hate most of what Christmas brings (unnecessary shopping, shite music, tacky decorations and early pub closing times). I do, however, enjoy the get-together with family/friends that only Christmas brings. It makes all the crap mentioned above bearable, and the long flight(s) home seem way shorter than they actually are.

Happy Christmas to you all, and best wishes for the year ahead!

More coming soon…