Travel & Humanitarian Photos
–UPDATE– Version 2 of the Lightroom Greyscale Gradient, which allows you to see the ends of the scale more easily, can be found here. –UPDATE– If you’re using Lightroom on a standard monitor then you will obviously be carefully calibrating your display every week. However, although you may also be creating a profile on your [...]
A folder on my desktop serves as a repository for image files and links to urls that I want to post on this blog. This folder has been growing and, having an inclination towards tidiness, I felt that it was time for a clear-out. So here, for your entertainment, enjoyment and delectation are a few [...]
Matt Brandon and I have worked together to select the winning images from my Bangkok Photo Walk and Matt’s Penang Photo Walk. It’s at this point that competition judges find themselves saying, “It was a hard decision, there were a lot of excellent entries”. Well, it really was a hard decision. However, after looking at [...]
Now the party’s over it’s time to clear away the debris and complete the post-match analysis. OK, that’s a mixed metaphor that’s going nowhere. If you were on the Photo Walk then you probably want to show-off the fruits of your labours. Well, dear friend, now you can. First, post your two favourite images to [...]
Here’s a selection of images taken during yesterday’s Photo Walk. The first guy was selling apples from a stall on Yaowarat in the heart of Chinatown. Cool hat, eh? He sold me some apples but apparently I couldn’t afford the hat. Here’s an example of something that I teach in my photo classes: no matter how [...]
I really enjoyed this afternoon’s Photo Walk. The residents of Chinatown were as hospitable as ever, especially so considering that over 100 photographers descended on them today. We took a leisurely walk from the river up through the narrow alleyways towards the busy main street at Yaowarat where our group joined two other Photo Walk [...]
I’m just about to grab a quick sandwich, brew up a pot of tea and then I’ll be heading out to lead walkers on the 2009 Bangkok Photo Walk. Before I go, here’s a quick guide to the gear I’m taking this afternoon. It’s a light day, no tripod, no big lenses, just the essential [...]
Don’t get left behind. Study this easy-to-read guide to the upcoming Bangkok Photo Walk to ensure that you aren’t left out when the fun begins. 1. Study the map, and make a note of the location and start time on the Photo Walk web site. 2. Turn up. Take photos. Chimp, chat and chill out [...]
As promised, here’s a small collection of recent images from Bangkok’s Chinatown. If you’re joining one of the Photo Walks taking place here on Saturday then these may whet your appetite. Don’t forget: charge those batteries, format those memory cards and stoke up your creativity.
As we’re heading back to Chinatown on Saturday for the Bangkok Photo Walk I thought I’d dig out a few images from the area. All of these have been taken on recent Photo Workshops. I photographed these two ladies on Sunday when out with the incomparable Larry. Larry’s a diving photographer and more used to [...]
If you ever wanted proof that photography is a popular pastime in Thailand then you should come along to Bangkok’s Chinatown on Saturday when not one, not two, but three Photo Walks will all conclude at the same location. Lek & Rut’s Seafood Restaurant will play host to up to 150 photographers. The mind boggles. [...]
Demand for my Bangkok photo workshops has grown quickly this year and the past week has found me spending a total of four and a half days showing other photographers some of what I consider to be the city’s more photogenic locations. We tend to stay largely off the tourist trail, photographing in places which [...]
Smashing Magazine has listed 35 Beautiful Photography Websites and my own is amongst them. I was delighted when I found out. When I looked through the other web sites in the list I was doubly pleased. The legendary Steve McCurry, the fabled Rankin, the acclaimed Brent Stirton, the gorgeous Burn Magazine, the wildly impressive Timothy [...]
The current issue of Digital Photographer magazine, issue 84, carries my Career Guide article on photo workshops. The article looks at how to set up your first photo workshop, what clients will expect you to deliver and how best to promote your workshop to the public. You can buy Digital Photographer magazine in all discerning [...]
This month’s desktop wallpaper comes from Boudha near Kathmandu in Nepal and shows prayer flags flying from the Stupa. The slideshow beneath shows a printer in a small side-street near the stupa printing lines of prayers on the colourful rectangles of cloth using traditional woodblock printing techniques. These “Lung Ta” prayer flags release their prayers [...]
The summer classes of the Bangkok Photo School have recently concluded. We taught our Foundation I and Experienced courses to over thirty students for five weeks. Each course included a field-trip, which is proving to be a highlight of the classes. It’s always good to spend the time in company of enthusiastic people, better still [...]