By pascaljappy | News , Opinion
The streets may be Snowy White, but no Rudolf stories from me tonite. Only a biased and unsubstantiated – but optimistic – analysis of where the market’s at at the end of 2019. It appears Santa ain’t been too generous with the photo industry this year. Presents and good surprises have been few. True […]
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By Pascal Ollier | Travel Photography
Brussels is endowed with a permanent automobile exhibition hall around the monument celebrating its relatively recent independence, called “AutoWorld”. Built late in the 19th century for a national exhibition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of said independence, the building houses many cars from one of the largest car collections in the world based close to […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Well, it’s the final DS challenge of the year. I’ve enjoyed each one thoroughly, in spite of repeatedly forgetting contributions along the way. By and large, your photographs have been stunning and have brought a wide smile to my face. Thank you. The topic for this final challenge was composition in an elongated […]
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By Chris Stump | Review , Travel Photography
I took some photos again at this year’s Classic Yacht Regatta in Newport, RI, USA. It had been a few years. Amazing how different the sky and ocean can be year to year. And it’s always a treat to be out on the water, especially with the estimable Onne van der Wal. This was my first major […]
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By pascaljappy | News
It’s been brought to my attention that some of the content on DS is a bit “labour intensive” for readers. And that the occasional easy-going post would be welcome. Fine by me. Here are two suggestions that were recently spoken gently to my ear by Paul and Philippe and that could help us provide intelligent […]
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By Dallas Thomas | Review
The Nikon Z7 for a first effort, is pretty good, IMHO. Sure it may not have Sony like eye detection focus and it has the cardinal sin of just a single memory card. Not having these 2 features has not impacted on my photographic adventures over the last 12 months and some 12,000 images. The […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , Opinion
Hey, what did you expect? I’m French … But bear with me for a second, as there is a real link I’m trying to highlight in this quick post 😉 That link came to my mind during a wine tasting dinner with friends last week-end. Among those friends, two painters, a photographer, an […]
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By philberphoto | Art & Creativity , How-To
What is in shooting a series? Leveraging an idea, a point of view, a style, a technique, a subject, in order to turn one into many? Why is it that, after having always felt that series were boring, unimaginative, formulaic, lacking the delightful charm of its musical equivalent, the variations genre, I find myself […]
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By John Shingleton | Travel Photography
Introducing British-born, Australia resident, John Shingleton. Well known for his blog The Rolling Road, John is like many of us, a keen photographer with a lust for travel to far away places. I am a newcomer to DS so I may be taking a step too far in plunging into a story about […]
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By pascaljappy | Monday Post , News
The Spring photo workshop in Saint Paul de Vence is cancelled. It’s sad, it’s unfortunate, but there will be others, if you want them. Other workshops, and other resources and opportunities to have fun and get together. This is what this post is about. First things first: the Layer cake workshop is canceled. […]
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