Photokina has come and gone, Europe’s biggest photographic equipment trade show held in Cologne. Its been a great show for photography in general with two lower cost full-frame models finally hitting the market from the big 2 Canon and Nikon. But the most interesting developments from my perspective have come from Leica and Olympus. Firstly [more...]
After getting right into black and white photography from many of this year’s travels, I have started appreciating colour again but in a new way. Its possibly my solution to being a bit rubbish with colour management in the first place, but after reading an article on Paulina Otylie Surys in this months BJP, I decided to [more...]
I am now offering commissioned portraiture in the south of England. To facilitate this I have started a new website just for portraiture. Its based on a platform written by the incredibly inventive people at ’22slides’. I first saw their websites when I visited the site of a flickr buddy of mine, the US west [more...]
I now have a new place on the web just for black and white photography and its on Tumblr. It features selected archive shots in black and white and lets me connect to the massive Tumblr community at the same time. You can see the Distilled site here
I’m pleased to say that both of my entries into this year’s Taylor Wessing Prize at the National Portrait Gallery made it through to the second round from a field of 5400 photographs. Unfortunately they were not chosen to be hung in the final exhibition. Never mind, I’ll try again next year. Here are the [more...]
I had a brilliant long weekend recently with friends in Galway. The rural landscape was untouched and around the peat bogs the views looked almost prehistoric. When I saw some low-flying herons go by, they looked just like terydactyls! The weather held up for most of the trip except for a spell on a beach [more...]
So this year’s Vintage Festival was postponed due to poor ticket sales and moved from the intended venue of Boughton House in Northamptonshire and amalgamated into the Wilderness Festival held in Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire. The scaled down festival still had the Torch Club which again welcomed the amazing swing orchestra of Ondrej Havelka from Prague.
After nipping across the border from Montenegro earlier this year, I was so impressed with Dubrovnik I decided to return to the stunning Adriatic coast of Croatia. This time I was based in a great town called Rovinj (pronounced raw-vin), a few hundred miles north of Dubrovnik and 600Km south of Split, located in a [more...]
So the sun popped out for a few hours the other night and I managed to get out into the country near Winchester with my new lens the 12-35X. This is a great lens. It benefits from the main reason that Four Thirds manufacturers originally designed their sensor with a squarer ratio than that of [more...]
The main reason I went to Portugal in May was to shoot the apartments and facilities of 2 luxury resorts in the Algarve. I used my recently acquired Olympus OMD E-M5 mirrorless camera and purchased a lens specifically for the job, the Panasonic 7-14mm wide angle zoom. Using the camera at waist level height on [more...]