Like minded individuals with a zest for life, keen on embarking on a crazy, butt-numbing, ear-freezing, frostbite-inducing journey. Candidates should have a penchant for changing course on a whim, as well as an innate ability to find cheap and decent housing. Preference will be given to candidates blessed with unbelievably good looks. Heh kidding. Ok [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 28, 2008
35 millimetres
Often, the use of black and white photography helps to enhance the power of photographs, and that’s why I love it so much. I personally can’t identify what the reason really is, but my gut feel is that it removes all the distractions from colours in the scene, and forces the viewer to concentrate on [...]
March 25, 2008
Two in the Bush
Just two weeks ago I was faced with a quandary - not quite a happy problem, just … a problem. Without being too specific, I had a bird in the hand (not *that* bird), and I kinda wanted the bigger one in the bush.
Well, if anyone’s given you that spiel about a bird in the [...]
March 19, 2008
Memorial Day
I today came across an image which stuck itself firmly and immediately into my memory banks. Taken last year by Getty photographer John Moore, it truly reflects the emotion that so many feel (and that so many others are oblivious to) during Memorial Day in the USA. John Moore is more famously known as a war [...]
March 15, 2008
Well, you take ze ball, and run with eet…
Of all the different genres that photography covers, sports photog stirs up the greatest emotion in me. When given the chance to cover a sporting event, I often experience a feeling not dissimilar to the fire burning in a man’s loins when Jessica Alba enters a room. In the nude.
Ok I confess, that line was [...]
