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Prayer of the Woods

Prayer of the Woods is a Portuguese verse that I believe everyone should read.  It should give all who read it some heightened perspective of our reliance on our Earths goodness. The woods, the seas and the sky give us what we need. Life depends on the [...]

RAIN & WATER: Decades of Evolving Personal Imagery in Photography, Part 4

Canon EOS Lost At Sea, SD Memory Card Lives to Tell the Tale

Stories of survival at sea always take on mythic quality. The best example of this is, of course, Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick; or The Whale." However old Queequeg’s coffin doesn’t hold a candle to this hearty little Canon EOS 1000D that was lost [...]

How much fun can you have with a giant water balloon?

If you think that the exploding water balloon thing has been done to death, no matter how awesome it looks in slow-motion, how about having a go at making a six foot version of one pop? And still filming your antics - you know, somersaults, jumping it on it [...]

No water! No Starbucks! No you! No pretty pictures!

"I wish I had gotten into the environmental work earlier because I think that's a citizen's fundamental responsibility. The channeling of creative arts in that direction has been very difficult. As I said, I never made a picture with a direct environmental [...]

Nature’s Colors: Blue

Following on after Red (now expanded with new images) and Green, this is my third post about Nature’s colors.  Yellow is a complementary color of blue; when they appear together they provide a striking contrast, as shown by the two examples below. [...]

The Gift of Inspiration

One of the best gifts we can give to others is the gift of inspiration.  For photographers inspiration is the key that unlocks the door to creativity and enables us to share our thoughts visually to the world.  Once we learn the rules of photography [...]

Secrets of liquid photography: "Mastering Splash" e-videobook

Yes, we did it: our first masterclass-based e-videobook has been released. Now you can learn how we created our most famous splash images.The book contains more than four hours video from the masterclass, and covers everything you need to know about liquid [...]

Floating Flowers

It all began when I collected a water lily from our garden pond for a still life shot à la Mapplethorpe.  After rummaging through two cupboards filled with an array of vases and containers, nothing seemed a perfect match. So I decided to cut off [...]

Polarisers - what they do and why

With so much possible in post–production is there any point in carrying filters these days? I always divided filters into two categories – those you often use and those you try once. In the first category, came polarizers, warm up filters, [...]

Mastering Splash Photography: The Magic Behind Our Liquid Photographs

Have you seen those amazing images made from a liquid splash when its formed quite recognizable objects, such as animals? I was exploring the technique for a while, and in this article I'll show you how we work with the splashes.  Update:I run my first [...]

Wave Hunters: In Pursuit of The Big Wave

My good friend, photographer Jeff Flindt, is one of the top surfing photographers in the world. While it looks on the outside like his life of travel and adventure is nothing but glamour, I've had the chance to hang out with him while he's doing his [...]

Bugged About Portraits?

Shooting portraits outdoors can be fun but introduces a bunch of variables that you can’t control starting with the weather, especially the wind, and then there's bugs. After just a few shots of model that I made at a lake close to my home, she had had [...]

The Money Shot, sort of

After almost a month shooting two books in cities (mainly Shanghai and Beijing), I decided I’d done my duty and deserved a trip somewhere else before heading back to London on Sunday. I flew down to Guilin, in southern China, a few days ago. This is [...]