Five of the Best Photography Lessons I’ve Learned
The field of photography holds many lessons to be learned. Here’s a challenge: do a quick search on Google for “photography lessons” and see how many results you get. There are literally hundreds,...
View ArticleShot Talk II – Migrant Mother
This shot goes by the epithet “Migrant Mother”. It’s an icon of the time and place in which it was shot, Nipomo, California 1936. This picture gave face, not just to the great depression of the 1930s,...
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Sunday Morning Reflections
It’s 6:30 am on Sunday morning and I’m sitting at my laptop with a warm cup of coffee. The mix is off. Its not as strong as I should have made it but I’m already too sunk in the writing to alter it...
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Money
I love money. I know what you’re thinking; you’re about to quote me a healthy dose of “the love of money is the root of all evil”; which I’d rightly deserve if I truly did love money for money’s sake....
View ArticleA Rant on Light and Why You Should Love It
There would be perhaps no sweeter words to the ear of the photographer had he been around to hear God command, “Let there be light”. I spent the past hour browsing pictures on 500px and found myself...
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Chasing Butterflies
When a Chinese boy likes a Chinese girl he gives her a jade one. Among the ancients it was a symbol of the “soul and of unconscious attraction towards the light” (A Dictionary of Symbols – J.E....
View ArticleJust Do It
It’s been rumoured that there’s more potential buried in the cemeteries than alive anywhere else on the planet. I didn’t quite understand what such a statement could mean the first time I heard it....
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Saturday Morning Market – Part I
When I was a kid, going to the market on Saturday morning with my mom was an unavoidable terror. The market sold things that came out of the ground. Not useful clean things like crude oil and natural...
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All In A Days Work
The things that humans do for work are as diverse and almost as myriad as the stars of the heavens. Putting food on the table for themselves and their families consume the time, sweat and thought of...
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Revisiting Old Dragons
In 2012 I made the image shown above. The Golden Dragon, a fishing boat off the central coastline in Trinidad made the perfect installment for a beautiful sunset. It’s always been one of my favourite...
View ArticleWillemstad… Briefly
What do you do when your return flight on a family vacation to Aruba has a ten-hour long layover in Curacao? You check into a hotel and take a taxi to Willemstad for some roaming and some shooting....
View ArticleSaturday Morning Market Part II – Faces
By anyone’s first glance the Chaguanas market (Trinidad & Tobago) seems to be entirely about the goods and the services being offered. But there’s a force behind it all that makes it work. Without...
View ArticleJust Do It
“There is more potential buried in the cemeteries than alive anywhere else on the planet . . .”...
View ArticleMarkets
“The market sold things that came out of the ground. Not useful clean things like crude oil and...
View ArticleA Rant on Light
“We are constantly prodded to bounce light, fill light, spot light, diffuse light and eat light . ....
View ArticleCopacabana Beach
“Rio has an amazing geography, verdant, in some places voluptuous, and in some places . . . “...
View ArticleParis in Portra (400)
A long time ago in a galaxy far, well, it was in this same galaxy really, taking a...
View ArticleParis in Portra (400) – Deux
Somewhere at the back of my mind it bothered me to think that two rolls were all I...
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