Category : Seascape
New Journal 59 – In Preparation for the Isle of Skye On the weekend we’ll be cruising up north to spend 10 days on the Isle of Skye. Having just received news that the 14-24 lens that is due in the mail has been stolen, it looks like I won’t get the lens in time […]
New Journal 58 – Photography as a therapy A reader emailed me to say that not long ago he was seriously ill but on the path to recovery. He found photography a very therapeutic activity that aided in his recovery. While I’m fortunately in good health, I couldn’t have agreed with him more. A few […]
New Journal 57 – Learning to swim Most adults feel at home in the water. Others, however, believe that the water will take them one day, and if the water doesn’t finish them off, whatever horribleness deep within almost certainly will. I was a weak swimmer. I could do a manic front crawl for about […]
New Journal 43 – Is tone mapping dead? I received an email yesterday that was just one of many communications I’ve seen this week that has been about the same thing: the idea that surreal tone mapping is becoming less popular. I won’t use the term ‘tone mapping’ as liberally as others since each software […]
New Journal 42 – Cannon Beach My feet were cold. Despite the warm weather to be had in Portland, Cannon beach had a distinctive chill to it. I’d been wading in and out of the ocean for about 45 minutes. The conditions weren’t exactly Arctic but all I could feel was a constant pins and […]
New Journal 8 – The slow life This lovely Chilean town is affecting us. Its gentle pace and friendly people seem to have turned our ‘chill out’ mode to fully active. We stroll from place to place, pier to pier, church to church looking for good compositions at a snail’s pace, enjoying the perfect, crisp […]
French Journal Day 161 (Travel Diary Day 241) I met with an app developer today about creating unique and functional apps for HDR photography and photography in general. Over a coffee we threw around a few ideas, some of which weren’t particularly great, but 3 in particular have very exciting prospects that need to be […]
French Journal Day 133 (Travel Diary Day 213) Our first 3 days in Paris are shaping up to be more action-packed than the entire 6 weeks we’ve spent in Burgundy. It’s been a time of both tranquility and productivity here but not much in the way of adventure. After getting acquainted with our neighbourhood on […]