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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 [...]

Photographers' Christmas in Taos: travelogue and romance

Little-ish gifts for photographers, seeing as the season is almost here

The season of frenzied gift-giving is nigh upon us, meaning that it is time to wheel out Daniela's quick and dirty guide to finding perfect pressies for the photographer in your life. (Or you could just send people whom you love in this general direction for [...]

Olympus offers money back on new XZ-1s

'Tis most definitely the season for camera manufacturers to tempt potential customers into their lairs heady with the addictive perfume of new kit, by offering incentives of cashback on purchases of pretty pieces of equipment. This week, Olympus is fanning the [...]

Christmassy cashback bonuses from Canon

If the hordes of shoppers meandering along Oxford Street, the hideous giant holly leaves on Carnaby Street, and being subjected to ghastly jingly music in shopping centres across the land hadn't already been some kind of vague indicator that Christmas might [...]

Wide-angle dressed for Winter

Winter time is great to do some fantastic landscape pictures but it can be frustrating to  find out that, if it's raining, you need to be quick, be under an umbrella or keep cleaning the lens front element or filter all the time. While it's good to [...]

Gallery: Want Winter to End? Why?

March and April are less than scenic; mostly brown trees and grass .... lots of rain. I wish it were January again! Nikon D700; AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8 ED VR; polarizer. [...]

The Year of the Tiger

As 2010 – the year of the Tiger in the Chinese lunar calendar – draws to a close, it is timely to consider the status of this most regal of the big cats. With three of the subspecies of tigers – Balinese, Caspian and Javan already extinct [...]

Harp Seal Pups in Ice Cradles

It was only after the helicopter had lifted off from the pack ice and I looked back at the white ice floes separated by the dark leads of water did I appreciate just how precarious my photo shoot with harp seals pup had been. Before we boarded the chopper on [...]

Balletic cranes

Besides snow.monkeys Japan has another winter wildlife spectacle – Japanese or red-crowned cranes that gracefully dance in midwinter on snow.  Back in the 1920's the crane population on Hokkaido plummeted to less than 20 individuals due to [...]

Fire and Ice

The natural phenomenon of fire and ice is something I associate with Iceland, having seen graphic videos of dramatic sub-glacial eruptions. But never having managed to see this spectacle for myself, the best I could come up with was a staged shot of fire and [...]

Snow Monkeys

Taking snow monkeys in Japan is one of my favorite winter wildlife shoots; although you have to be lucky to get it cold enough so the snow does not melt as soon as it lands on the monkeys' heads. These Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) occur in many parts of [...]

Winter Waterfalls