New Journal 33 – Couldn’t handle the heat After writing a post about my body’s inability to cope with heat, and receiving some great suggestions from others, I vomited my guts out last night – there’s some lovely imagery for you. We hiked for a few hours in blistering heat, with 4 liters of water […]
New Journal 32 – An American Road Trip “Uh, I forgot to mention that your car’s a pickup” “Hmm, how big?” “Big. It’s a Chevrolet Silverado” I pretended like I knew what this meant. I’m not used to big cars. I’m not used to driving in America. I’m not used to automatic drive or sitting […]
New Journal 31 – handling the heat I’m an Englishman. My body knows cold (ish) weather. Rain is second nature to us. In the UK, if the weather is predicated to top 25c the government starts handing out health warnings – that’s how frail our sun-starved bodies are. In one day we’ll be in Moab […]
With the announcement that facebook has begun to allow hashtag functionality, we now have a great way for a larger group of people to collect their ideas or work in one pool. For a while I’ve been wanting to share some of my brackets with my readers to see how they would process my images. […]
My Advanced Cityscape Tutorial is now available! Sometimes, as fans of post-processing (if you’re anti-processing then you’re definitely at the wrong blog), our workflows in Photoshop become far too elaborate. With all of the amazing-ness that Photoshop provides, we tend to get excited and overdo things. It’s often most effective to keep things basic. A […]
New Journal 30 – Catching the train We sat up, awake. Darkness filled the train carriage and barely a noise was made, as you’d expect at 3:00am. An Amish couple behind us whispered something. We weren’t the only ones still awake. The train windows became a movie theatre for an unknown period of time. The […]
New Journal 29 – Enjoying the view Click…10 seconds….Click….5 seconds….Click…..30 seconds……I waited as cramp set in throughout my arms and body. Leaning against the glass window, I was staring down onto the city of Chicago. I’d wrapped a black scarf around the camera and was hoping to block out any reflections from the glass. I’m […]
New Journal 28 – Chicago shinnanigans We knew our first day in Chicago would be an eventful one. The awesome HDR photog that is Chris Smith agreed to put his life on hold for a day and come to meet us. He came prepared. With a list of great places to visit, and the loan […]
New Journal 27 – Thoughts on NYC A torrent of rain was sweeping through New York as our plane took off in the direction of what would turn out to be a very sunny Chicago. Yet another customs official took delight in my name before we boarded the flight. That’s 2 in 8 days. He […]
New Journal 26 – Lots of choices Rachel pointed out to me this morning that there seems to be a lot of food and drink choices in NYC. When we ask for a sandwich, we go through a small interview before we get it. Here’s a conversation I had yesterday night at a bar. Me: […]