By pascaljappy | How-To
Lying myself out of a medium-format film-camera obsession 😉 Sometimes, sharpness and transparency are too much of a good thing, with modern digital cameras. Sometimes, the soul craves a little snap, crackle and pop from the turntable, a little halation on Ingrid Bergman’s distressed face (“Oh, Dev!”) in a movie, and slightly gentler manners from […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion , Review
I doubt I’d have justified the cash, if fate hadn’t played a major role; the pay out for a burglary at my home near Cape Town in September last year has been sitting in my bank for a while, giving me time to decide what to do. The thieves took inter alia every single item […]
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By Pete Guaron | Travel Photography
I don’t know if Pascal is going to publish all of these – it’s a bit off-beat for DS. It’s about vehicles in my street – maybe an extension of the plague of fire trucks I posted here a while back, that I found right outside my front door one night, when the guy over […]
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By Paul Barclay | Travel Photography
It has been quite some time since my last contribution to Dear Susan, so I thought I would share some of my images from an infrared photography workshop I recently attended that took place in Joshua Tree National Park (JTNP), which is located North East of Palm Springs, California, near the towns of Joshua Tree […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Choosing good enough isn’t settling down. It’s wisening up. I used to own a high-end printer, and never used it. Now, the replacement is a cheap A4 “large tank” 6-ink affair that produces visible dots and prints that would probably fade in a week, if left in the sun. And I love it. An […]
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By pascaljappy | News
It’s that time of life again. My camera needs a long rest and I need to find a replacement. Multiple brands have been at the center of my obsessional attention in recent weeks, which has allowed me to acquire much information about things to come in all areas of the industry. Here are the main […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion , Uncategorized
Are we more, or less, present in the moment because of our photography? If my wife is to be trusted (she is a doctor specialized in congnitive disorders, so I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt 😉 ), my memory isn’t … top tier, to put it elegantly. I do forget a lot, […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity
A loose group of us local oddball snappers get together every now and then to go on a collective outing. As part of a whatsapp group that had become dormant I was lamenting with my good friend Zelma the demise of the group. If you remember Zelma you will know they don’t come much more […]
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By Nancee Rostad | Art & Creativity , Travel Photography
At the end of a winter trip to Japan, I found myself looking at cherry trees in full peak bloom. Mind you, this was on February 22, 2023 – February! Which is at least several weeks before the blooms open in other parts of Japan. Luckily, I was in Kawazu, in Shizuoka Prefecture, which […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Some photographers prefer film, like foodies prefer elaborate cooking and fancy dining experiences. Wading through some of my photographs in DS archives, I found a few that have a (vaguely) film-like look and reignited my interest in this topic. None are really quite there, but they each tend to illustrate a specific aspect of […]
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