Photographers are a funny mob. We get so involved in how to do things, or how that effect is done etc, that we often forget that photography is about seeing and painting with light.
What camera do you use, or what lens or what f stop are always bandied around when photographers get together. You don't often see photographers spending much time developing their eye.
Our vision, in reality is the only thing that separates us from each other. As creatives we need to be practicing daily our craft, our vision, our eye. Yeah I know as working shooters there is a whole lot of other stuff we have to do, like paperwork, marketing promotion and just simple talking to clients. All that stuff gets in the road of us training at our chosen vocation. Can you imaging a pro footballer, golfer or tennis playing not practicing daily, instead doing the other stuff. How long do you think professional sports people would last if they didn't practice.
Thursday, 29 July 2010
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
We're moving forward....
Well that's what our new Prime Minister tells us, I guess we can all forget the train wreck of the last government and focus on a bright and fabulously wonderful future with our new team.... Not the dream team we were promised at last election, but a moving forward team.
One of the things I've never really got about moving forward, is why is it always good to move forward? For example, if I've parked my car facing towards the edge of a very high cliff.... is it still a good idea to move forward, rather than stay still or go backwards.
If we move forward, do we get a better deal, and better governance? Or is it just possible we get the same deal? New packaging, new slogan.... moving forward.
What do we do when we move forward? Now that the dream team have tackled all the hard issues like, climate change, whaling in the Southern Oceans, giving each kid a lap top in an education revolution and of course my absolute favorite the National Broadband Network, which has been rolled out to give us international standard access to broadband. What do we do when we move forward?
I ponder sometimes the alternatives to moving forward. Sadly there are none unless you like middle aged men, trying to prove they are some kind of action hero running around in tiny little bathing costumes. Oh well... At the end of the day, I'll guess we'll just have to move forward.
One of the things I've never really got about moving forward, is why is it always good to move forward? For example, if I've parked my car facing towards the edge of a very high cliff.... is it still a good idea to move forward, rather than stay still or go backwards.
If we move forward, do we get a better deal, and better governance? Or is it just possible we get the same deal? New packaging, new slogan.... moving forward.
What do we do when we move forward? Now that the dream team have tackled all the hard issues like, climate change, whaling in the Southern Oceans, giving each kid a lap top in an education revolution and of course my absolute favorite the National Broadband Network, which has been rolled out to give us international standard access to broadband. What do we do when we move forward?
I ponder sometimes the alternatives to moving forward. Sadly there are none unless you like middle aged men, trying to prove they are some kind of action hero running around in tiny little bathing costumes. Oh well... At the end of the day, I'll guess we'll just have to move forward.
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Is it just me?
I was lighting the fire in our studio this morning and picked up and old newspaper. Started reading as I tend to do... Read a piece on a guy taking his ex boss ( they both worked for the same company, she was his superior) to court because she let him have sex with her. Apparently when he made advances to her... note he made advances... he is claiming that she should have said NO.
Instead they had an affair that lasted for several months until she finally said enough is enough.
The guy wants compensation for the stress and suffering he under went while he was shagging her. Apparently this dude believes that it is all her fault for letting him screw her.
The woman concerned has since lost her job, however Randy as I'll call him is still employed but now wants to be compensated for his unfair treatment.
What is this world coming to? Sounds a bit like the barbaric act of stoning a woman to death for committing adultery and letting the fella go, only in this case the fella now thinks he deserves a pot of gold after the honey pot runs dry.
Back to more pleasant things. A gentle balloon flight across Australia's larges salt lake, Lake Eyre. More of these pics can be found at excitations stock archive.
Instead they had an affair that lasted for several months until she finally said enough is enough.
The guy wants compensation for the stress and suffering he under went while he was shagging her. Apparently this dude believes that it is all her fault for letting him screw her.
The woman concerned has since lost her job, however Randy as I'll call him is still employed but now wants to be compensated for his unfair treatment.
What is this world coming to? Sounds a bit like the barbaric act of stoning a woman to death for committing adultery and letting the fella go, only in this case the fella now thinks he deserves a pot of gold after the honey pot runs dry.
Back to more pleasant things. A gentle balloon flight across Australia's larges salt lake, Lake Eyre. More of these pics can be found at excitations stock archive.
Monday, 12 July 2010
Macbook Pro battery life.
Is it just me or does the advertised battery life of a 17" Macbook Pro SUCK?
Brand new machine, the apple claim a wonderful battery life of over 5 hours (in fact I'm pretty sure they claim more than that) mine is lucky to last 2 hours. I thought that was ok given that I use mostly processor intensive programs, but I noticed the other night that it still died in 2 hours and 15 minutes while I was just doing emails.
Nice bit of kit, but why the deception? When Canon and Nikon make a big deal out of battery life on their DSLR's you get much better life than the previous model. Apparently a concept that escapes the little silver apple.
Brand new machine, the apple claim a wonderful battery life of over 5 hours (in fact I'm pretty sure they claim more than that) mine is lucky to last 2 hours. I thought that was ok given that I use mostly processor intensive programs, but I noticed the other night that it still died in 2 hours and 15 minutes while I was just doing emails.
Nice bit of kit, but why the deception? When Canon and Nikon make a big deal out of battery life on their DSLR's you get much better life than the previous model. Apparently a concept that escapes the little silver apple.
Photographing from a hot air balloon at Lake Eyre
Just returned from a road trip to Lake Eyre in the northern part of South Australia. We were there at the invitation of Balloonist and adventurer, Kiff Saunders. Kiff was involved in an horrific road accident earlier this year and celebrated his first balloon flight by flying over Lake Eyre.
The outback photographer got to ride along with Kiff. You can view some of the images captured here at excitations stock archive.
What an amazing flight, lifting of just as the sun peeped above the horizon and over Australia's largest salt lake in minutes. Amazingly, even though we were drifting slowly over the lake, the whole flight seemed to flash by. So many things to photograph and so little time to do it.
The outback photographer got to ride along with Kiff. You can view some of the images captured here at excitations stock archive.
What an amazing flight, lifting of just as the sun peeped above the horizon and over Australia's largest salt lake in minutes. Amazingly, even though we were drifting slowly over the lake, the whole flight seemed to flash by. So many things to photograph and so little time to do it.
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