Cajun crawfisherman Roy Blanchard is accustomed to zipping along at 35 miles per hour in his workaday skiff through the Atchafalaya Basin, threading bald cypress trees and startling the white pelicans. I was not. This was a new and emotional experience. I’d spent the past several years traveling to the Polar Regions to photograph icebergs, drawn to the grandeur of their … [Read more...]
Abstraction Part 4 – Suspending Disbelief
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it’s got to be organized. David Hockney 1 - Introduction I originally intended this essay to feature examples of abstract photographs. However, while writing the introduction I realized that I still had a number of things to say about abstraction that I did not have the opportunity to cover in the three … [Read more...]
My Journey
This is an illustrated essay about the last five years of my photographic life. No, I have no dramatic story to tell, I did not suffer terrible loss or illness and have, as a result, a great epiphany. I'm just a bloke who's been snapping for 30ish years and found himself unsatisfied and stuck about 5 years ago. This is the story of what follows, mundane perhaps, but perhaps … [Read more...]
Canon Pro-2000 Review and Related Items of Interest
Canon Pro-2000 Review and Related Items of Interest This article is more about the related items of interest than about the printer itself, though they are intimately connected. I say this because the printer has already been well-reviewed (Keith Cooper, NorthLight Images, and Scott Martin, Onsight). As well, Marcin Kaluza has written a number of insightful contributions on … [Read more...]
Hasselblad X1D Hands On Review
Last spring, like many photographers, I was surprised to see Hasselblad announce the X1D camera. As many readers know, I am old Hasselblad user. My career got off the ground with the Hasselblad 500CM and the 500 EL, with a wide range of lenses. This camera setup was one of my most prized possessions and it quite literally was a large part of my success as a photographer in … [Read more...]
