By pascaljappy | Opinion
“Why do we fall Master Bruce?”“So that we can learn to pick ourselves up” Co-conspirer Philippe recently wrote a farewell to Olympus in which he described the terrible decline of the photo market. More recently Steve Huff posted a similar obituary under the title Photography has become disposable. This may feel sad, particularly […]
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By Pascal Ollier | Travel Photography
With exhibitions again allowed in Belgium, Autoworld in Brussels has opened a temporary celebration of the Porsche 356, which blows its 70 candles this year. Stemming from the VW Beetle, i.e. with very humble origins, the 356 turned into a real fast car over the years, if not a genuine sports car. Low drag, good […]
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By Dallas Thomas | Travel Photography
I regard myself as a Flâneur Google tells us that a Flâneur is a French noun referring to a person, literally meaning ‘stroller’, ‘lounger’, ‘saunterer’, or ‘loafer’, but with some nuanced additional meanings. Flânerie is the act of strolling, with all of its accompanying associations. A near-synonym of the noun is boulevardier. Unable to travel […]
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By Paul Perton | Uncategorized
Ian Varkevisser is a Cape Town-based photographer I came into contact with through the Cape of Storms Facebook page. Marooned in London, I follow Ian’s work through that medium. In mythology the muses were nine goddesses who symbolized the arts and sciences. Throughout the ages creative artists have taken muses and found inspiration in them. […]
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By pascaljappy | Tongue-in-cheek , Travel Photography
Love him or hate him, Jeremy Clarkson is leaving his mark on the motoring journalism world. Among his numerous aphorisms, one states that a carefully renovated cottage should always have a classic British car parked in the drive. His argument was made during one of the more extraordinary episodes of Top Gear ever to be […]
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By Mark Raugas | Travel Photography
This year, to date, most all of my photography has been confined to my living room and small garden. I focused in the early evening hours, as the days grew longer, on using a Voightländer 65/2 Macro lens and capturing flowers in bloom and trees as they began to grow leaves on the hill behind […]
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By philberphoto | Opinion
The camera market may be 84% off its peak, a horrendous fall, and that even pre-COVID, but that doesn’t stop the release of new gear. In this instance, 3 new camera bodies in just a few weeks, each of which is significant in its own way. Meet the Canon R5, the Leica M10R, and the […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , Travel Photography
My recent trip to the UK didn’t go quite as planned 😉 Weather was in total contrast to previous (and following) weeks: wet wet wet. And the UK government proved as reliable as our own by announcing an end to self-quarantine for French visitors on the 4th, no wait, the 6th, no wait, the 10th […]
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By John Wilson | Art & Creativity
“Enigma – A person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand.” (Oxford) A few years ago I got introduced to the work of Abelardo Morell, a Cuban American photographer and Professor Emeritus of Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art. He’s most famous for his “Camera Obscura” project which turns rooms into a camera […]
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By Paul Barclay | Art & Creativity
I thought I would share some photos taken at the end of May one evening when the sun decided to break out after a stretch of grey skies. Rather than do my usual walk in my neighborhood I decided to go the near by town of Poulsbo, WA, which has a nice water front park […]
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