By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
A couple of posts ago, I lamented the disappearance of light and colour after a storm. Predictably, for the South of France, colour and blue sky didn’t take very long to reappear. Is that better, though? đ “Make up your mind, already”, you’ll be thinking, by now! Yes, yes, I’m typing this under a […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
Every year, nature around my home gives up its leaves, its colours, its fanfare, to the rain, wind and shortening of the days. To me, it feels like a plunge into darkness. Annual sunshine charts suggest a gradual change from the hot highlights of summer to the gloomy depression of pale winter suns amid […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , Travel Photography
A photographic walk through the modernising gigayacht shipyards in La Ciotat. My love for La Ciotat is a secret to no regular reader of this blog. The reason for this is how this small seaside town has managed to rise from the ashes of the closure of its main employer, the shipyard that used […]
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By Paul Perton | Art & Creativity , Travel Photography , Uncategorized
No words. These images hardly need explanation. Technical note; shot with a Fuji X-H1 with either the 16-55 f2.8 Fujinon zoom, or 90mm f2 Fujinon prime. Post processing in Capture 1.
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , Travel Photography
Nadav Kander, one of my favorite photographers, published a series of wonderful photographs entitled Yangtze: The Long River. This is my tongue in cheek homage to this extraordinary body of work. To me, Nadav Kander is one of the living Kings of photography. It’s hard to find many artists who manage to convey a […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity , How-To
When Fujifilm entered the digital camera market they did so with a firm intent to pay homage to their film heritage both in the styling of their cameras and in their attention to detail in the colour science of their film simulations. For years the mantra in the digital photography world was âI shoot RAWâ. […]
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By Bob Kruger | Art & Creativity
Two years ago, I and others submitted photographs in response to a Dear Susan challenge entitled âVisual Haikuâ (DS #841). Recently reviewing photographs I have taken over the past five years brought this challenge to mind. I wished to enhance the emotional impact of these photos through the addition of a haiku inspired by each. […]
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By Lad Sessions | Art & Creativity
Adventures and journeys can be endless and aimless, but projects have an endâboth a goaland a terminus. Life is an adventure, not a project, but life can be enlivened by projects. MyCovid Ramblings have been a year-long project. I will miss its many adventures and enjoyments. In March 2020 my only goal was to take […]
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By Pascal Ollier | Art & Creativity , Review
For those of you who read my very first article on this blog, “some like it wide”, you may remember that it dealt with my special attraction to wide angle lenses. While I continue to shoot with my esteemed CV 12mm, I have gone one step further and mounted the recent Laowa 9mm rectilinear for […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity
If you were to go down to your local beach in the morning to catch the sunrise and were confronted with the view below, you might be forgiven for feeling a sense of spirituality. You might even find that elusive thing called calm if you sat on the rocks and meditated taking in this vista. […]
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