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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By Adrian | Opinion , Review , Travel Photography
Dear Susan’s contributors have varied photographic interests, taken with varied equipment, but often with a unifying aim to avoid the obvious, and often taking an independent path to interesting photography. A couple of years ago, Dear Susan founder Pascal wrote about the concept of “undestination photography“, to eschew the cliched and instagrammed spots over-run with […]
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By paulperton | Opinion
I’m staring at an empty document. About to write a piece for DS (DearSusan), which is suddenly derailed. I’ve allowed myself to become distracted midway through the opening sentence and now find it necessary to veer off to the Interwebs for a shot of inspiration. And failed – as more distractions came along. We don’t […]
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By philberphoto | Monday Post
Sony own a major Hollywood film studio. Thus they know film history. After they’d established the market for FF mirrorless, they watched their competitors, Canon, Nikon, Panasonic even, come out with products specced and designed so similarly it was impossible not to see them as clones. Clones going after Sony, as in The Attack of […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Every July 14th, France celebrates Bastille day with much fanfare, in a three pronged event: military parades in the morning, fireworks in the evening, and louts destroying stuff in between, which appears to have become a new low IQ way of life in France (some people have a picnic, others burn motobikes, the thrills of […]
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By paulperton | Travel Photography
Early July signals our departure for the north of Scotland, to join friends for what has become an annual week of salmon fishing on the Spey. This is (I think) our sixth visit and the fishing remains difficult and for reasons unknown, not very productive. No matter. I have a camera(s) with me and can […]
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By philberphoto | Opinion
I was at a blessed place. My gear was stolen, so I could start afresh. Oh, the bliss of being in a position to toy with endless possibilities, owning each and all of them in my mind. It is so cosmically great that I recommend each of us get his/her gear stolen on a regular […]
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By Chris Stump | Travel Photography
We drove up from Maine to Canada for a week’s vacation, which overlapped the July 4th holiday here in the States. The drive up was very pleasant with a half-way stop in Saint John, New Brunswick. We were based in Charlottetown, PEI, for the week and visited the dramatic north coast for our first excursion. […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Pareidolia: “a psychological phenomenon that causes people to see patterns in a random stimulus. This often leads to people assigning human characteristics to objects.” It’s freakish how often our brain assembles pieces of a scene into something different than it really is. Particularly in peripheral vision. We turn around, and the object isn’t […]
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By pascaljappy | Monday Post
So, that’s it. I broke DS … and this is how it feels. This may just be a hobby website, it’s still been a big part of my life over the past few years and, up to recently, plain … sailing. Also, the update process is not what I’d prefer. If this was […]
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