By Paul Perton | Interview
Author Mike Peart is something of a luminary in railway preservation in the UK. Back at a time when British Railways was making the owners of England’s scrapyards wealthy, he (and four friends) founded the Great Western Society to preserve some of the railway history that was being swept away with such indecent haste. That […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , Interview
This post presents the work of New-York based photographer Albert Delamour, who was kind enough to answer a few questions about his work for us. I was drawn to the originality of the ideas presented in the photographs and the superb printing technique. I hope you enjoy Albert’s approach and answers as much as me. […]
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By Paul Perton | Interview
I met Nancee Rostad at a photography workshop in Page, AZ some years ago. I really enjoyed her abstract, colourful work and have one of her prints at home. We became photobuddies and keep in (ir)regular touch as our lives continue on two different continents. Nancee lives near Seattle and in recently visiting Japan, discovered […]
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By pascaljappy | Interview
Image quality is a difficult topic to define or strive for. But I recently asked Hasselblad how they achieve their legendary IQ and got the answers below. Before jumping to them, I’d like to thank Philipe Liljenberg (Brand & Content Manager), Mathias Elmeskog (Image Quality Specialist) and Ove Bengtsson (Product Manager) for making this interview […]
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By Paul Perton | Interview
Paul Bruins – I call him the Man With Legs Like A Flamingo, as he is all of 6′ 5″ tall – is a Cape Town based photographer. I met Paul at a (Facebook) Cape of Storms photo meeting a couple of years ago and we’ve kept in occasional touch, culminating in my attending one […]
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By Paul Perton | Interview , Uncategorized
Kirk Tuck. American. Working photograher. Videographer. Lighting trainer. Fiction writer. Photo blogger, GAS sufferer extraordinaire and gear wonk. Kirk hopes being interviewed on DearSusan will make him famous. It most likely won’t, but his views make interesting reading, as do his almost daily blog post(s). Kirk, you’re becoming something of a […]
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By Paul Perton | Interview
South west Scotland. The fancifully named St John’s Town of Dalry, not far from Dumfries. A self-designed and built home, sustainable and incorporating as much eco-technology as possible. A mammoth task and even during the building work, photographers Ted Leeming and Morag Paterson decided to make the magnificent scenery around the house a project […]
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By Paul Perton | Interview
Cathy is a photographer I met through the Facebook group Cape of Storms – essentially Cape Town-based amateur and pro photographers, mostly shooting urban and rural landscapes. In the year or so that I have known her, her work has improved radically, signposted by her posts on Facebook, referencing photo workshops she has attended […]
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By Paul Perton | Interview
Adam Bonn. A Brit living in Portugal. Fuji user. Mad Fuji user – 80,000 words proves it **************************************************************************** 50-odd blog entries about a camera. That makes you a serious fanbooi, nut job, or worse, a worrying fetishist. Which is it and should I be sitting further away? Ha! Yeah I wouldn’t get too […]
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By Paul Perton | Interview
If you are a regular photo blog reader, the name Valerie Millett won’t be a surprise. Her landscape (see her Web site here) work in the American south west and the badlands is building her a solid reputation for having a fine eye. After spotting her work on the Luminous Landscape late last year, I […]
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