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The Present of Photography

Thich Nhat Hanh “Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.” “People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a [...]

2012 Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day - Magic

Amazing iPad Magazine

Photographer's i is a brand new state of the art interactive magaizine built for the iPad and other tablet devices. Here is a look at it's pilot edition which can be downloaded from the App Store. This app features interactive media and articles by top name [...]

Get all outdoorsy with Pentax's Optio WG2 and WG2-GPS

Rugged, all-weather cameras: they're something that manufacturers seem to be having a bit of fun with right now. And why not? Having a camera that can take pictures in situations that might involve getting cold and wet or being dropped or fallen on is a [...]

Zork Zörk Zoerk Tilt + HDR

© John Neel Zork Zörk Zoerk Tilt + HDR My newest toy! The proper spelling is the one with the umlaut over the o. The most common spelling seems to be just Zork.  The gallery shows examples of a popular technique called tilt shift. Each of these [...]

Inspiration - StopMo and Time Lapse

Inspiration can come from many places and from many other types of media. •  Although stop motion and time lapse photography might seem to be more like motion video techniques, they can both be accomplished with most higher end digital cameras. [...]

Design-led? Actually, I think the Pentax K-01 means business

Pentax launched a new mirror-less interchangeable lens camera today: the K-01. It's bigger than we're accustomed to in this breed of camera - in size it's definitely no match for the cute and quirky Pentax Q, a camera that certainly had its stumbling points, [...]

HDR - Garish? Realistic? Kitschy? UGLY?

The gallery above, contains a few examples of my personal HDR images. In a recent fine art photography forum, I asked a question regarding HDR.  My Question: Are there any people here that are using HDR in their work? Why? or Why not? Responder [...]

The Pentax Optio VS20, all geared up for vertical shooting

There might be a constant background wittering that compact cameras are dying, being overtaken by camera phones, but camera manufacturers haven't given up on them yet - far from it, when you look at the new releases announced at CES - and that includes Pentax, [...]

The "Hole" Month of January!

I find it hard to believe that we are already halfway through the third week of January! It seems that the month of January has an annual affect on my photography. Each January, I find myself with a renewed interest in pinhole photography. While I am crazy [...]