By pascaljappy | How-To
If we could answer that one in a few simple sentences, producing great photographs could probably automated. But that doesn’t mean that worthwhile pointers can’t be examined in a brief post, right? Very few things can irritate me more than someone trying to reduce a complex situation to a single metric. That’s what […]
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By pascaljappy | Travel Photography
Don’t get me wrong. Arles is lovely. Old stone, big river, huge history. And surprisingly tourist-free, thanks to the nearby beaches. Definitely go to Arles, it’s (almost) un-destination territory and fabulous for photography. But, if you’re in search of old stone, nice river and high photographic interest, Brittany has a lesser known proposition that’s deep […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ! My daughter is currently somewhere on a lake in Amazonia. I’ll let the unfairness of all that sink in for a minute (I should be the one having fun), but that’s not the reason for my distress. Let me collect my strength and continue. Okay. So, she – of immense DS […]
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By Sean O Brien | Travel Photography
Quick intro by Pascal: Please welcome Sean, who is sending this contribution to the blog and to the list of un-destinations we are curating. The Monument-Valley-by-the-sea quality of the photographs blew my socks off instantly, so I asked Sean to provide a little more info about the location, which he kindly did below. Read on. […]
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By Dallas Thomas | News , Travel Photography
Marseilles has been a place of mystery and intrigue to me for years. I’m not sure if it came from movies depicting the Marseilles of old (and in some areas still this is the case). The images and atmosphere were always as scary, crime ridden and of a dangerous city. And yet beautiful, given its […]
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By paulperton | Opinion
I’ve had a Macintosh on my desk since the mid-90s and promise not to bore you with the details of why and how here. Suffice to say that’s it has been and remains a willing assistant and cyber friend. Over the intervening years, lots of acquaintances have also moved to Macs and to a greater […]
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By pascaljappy | Monday Post , Opinion
It’s funny how some topics follow ebb and flow patterns in our newsfeeds. For some reason, mine were recently flooded by doomsday perspectives on tourism. “Who killed Tulum?” “Les excès du tourisme” “Barcelona’s tourism headache”, just to name a very few. A couple of weeks ago, it was all about tick-spread diseases, go figure. […]
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By Dallas Thomas | How-To , Travel Photography
I think we all know the feeling of getting back from a shoot or trip and starting the culling process. Over nearly 11 months of travel I had accumulated 14,346 shots. I was fortunate to be able to process and cull as I went. Over this period I selected some 1,870 images to process and […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
Something wasn’t right. Why would Zeiss release a 100/1.4 lens when their existing 85/1.4 was already hailed by most experts as possibly the best lens ever made? The first minutes of investigations almost derailed my plans for the future. Frankly, this overview of the lens wasn’t off to a great start. My Sony […]
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By Dallas Thomas | Travel Photography
Firstly Mirmande is not to be confused with Marmande. Second, let’s review the rules as decreed by the P’s – Pascal & Philippe – about un-destinations. Beautiful in its own way – tick Off the beaten path for all but local togs – tick Challenging, because of its lack of iconic features – tick […]
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