Free Photography Blog Handbook
Free Photoshelter Photography Blog Handbook. A must-read for all blogging photographers.
Kumbh Mela (India) Photo Tour Announced
Matt Brandon and I are leading a photo tour to the auspicious Kumbh Mela festival in India in April, 2010.
Embedding Lightroom galleries into WordPress
How to get your Lightroom images into a WordPress blog.
Photoshelter: Embedding Galleries
Embedding slideshows from Photoshelter and the Kumbh Mela Photo Tour 2010
Free Desktop Wallpaper for November 2009: Bhutan Masked Dance
November’s free desktop wallpaper comes from the Wangdue Phodrang Dzong in Bhutan and was taken during this year’s annual tsechu (festival). Masked dances play an important part of the annual tsechus and the traditions associated with them vary from village to village. The dances, or Chhams, are often performed with the intention of communicating an [...]
Photographers to look up to
Occasionally a weekend will come and go which leaves you with a warm glow inside. This has been such a weekend. I’ve known David duChemin and Matt Brandon for a while now but until Friday night it had been an entirely virtual relationship, carried out across continents via the wonders of the Internet. David is [...]
Dancing with Matt
If you’ve come anywhere near an Internet-enabled computer in the last two years you will undoubtedly have enjoyed Matt Harding’s dancing travel videos. Well, after the New York Times declared Matt’s Dancing video to be an “almost perfect piece of Internet art”, World Hum have just announced that Matt is their Traveller of the Year [...]
January desktop wallpaper and New Year wishes
The first free desktop wallpaper of the year shows the often overlooked Humayun’s Tomb in Nizamuddin, Delhi, India. Humayun’s Tomb has similar Mughal stylings to the Taj Mahal although its construction was completed over sixty years before Shah Jahan began to sketch out plans for his monument to enduring love. If you ever visit Delhi [...]
Lumen Dei: Thailand 2009
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be teaming up with the incomparable David duChemin and Matt Brandon next year for what promises to be a very special photo workshop. Regular readers will already be very familiar with Matt’s and David’s work and will understand why I’m excited at the prospect of working with them. They [...]
Bangkok: The Land of Smiles
Although you might be forgiven for thinking that there’s not much to smile about in Bangkok at the moment, the moon and stars disagree. Stepping out onto my apartment balcony this evening for my post-supper cup of Earl Grey, I noticed that there were just two stars in the night sky. They were positioned just [...]
Inspiration for young (and not so young) photographers
There must be something in the air. Or perhaps it’s a phase of the moon. Either way, a cascade of inspiring interviews and quotes have hit my Inbox over the last few days and knowing, as I do, the joy of sharing, I thought I’d do just that. Firstly, a list of “advice for young [...]
My Guest Post at The Digital Trekker
Matt Brandon, aka The Digital Trekker, is on holiday at the moment, enjoying the charms on offer in the English Cotswolds. Matt currently lives in Malaysia so I hope he packed a sweater. And an umbrella. He’s graciously asked me to contribute a guest post on his blog so if you follow this link you [...]
Weekend links
Some links to juice up your weekend: Brenda Ann Kenneally is the winner of the 2008 Canon Female Photojournalist award. The prize of €8,000 will “allow Keneally to shoot a report that sweeps away the clichés coming from glossy TV series such as ‘Desperate Housewives’.” Two things I noticed about Keneally’s truly excellent web site, [...]
Inspiring talk from David duChemin
I’m delighted to welcome David duChemin back to the blog for his second guest article. Photographers talk a lot about “inspiration” and yet it’s a difficult thing to define. Even more difficult to produce to order but that’s the topic of our exchanged posts. You can read my article on the same subject over at [...]
Changing the scenery
One of the many great things about my job is that I’m not constrained by location too much. Indeed, it’s better for me to be able to work in whatever place I happen to be. The commute Today is one of those days when you know for sure that there’s absolutely nowhere on earth that [...]
