By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity
The elbow is a much under appreciated part of the body. Its often ignored. Look at them closely and you will see they are all unique and they are everywhere you look. You may be forgiven for thinking I am about to give you the elbow but you would be right. No man lives without […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
To me, it all boils down to whether you enjoy using it. This is a real photograph, made with a real camera (not even a Smartphone) by a human being (me) in a real-life location (Leadenhall market in London). Its ethereal quality bears some resemblance to the polished look of images generated by diffusion […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
Here is your selection of favourite photographs for July 2023, all 22 entries of them 🙂 What do you think? Al Bionyst Here are two photographs of my twin daughters taken during a trip to the Swedish coast. We had glorious weather and the sunsets were incredible. Both taken with My Pentax 6×7 and 105mm […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
Welcome to the gallery of your favourite photos of June 2023. Thank you to all who participated. The photographs are presented below in autor alphabetical order. I am again very happy to see so much variety in style and personality, two things I value far more than most. Let us know what you think of […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , How-To
In most areas of life and tech, it’s best to stay in the center of a specification range. But maybe we can stray a little in our creative endeavours? On your daily commute, you probably wouldn’t want to drift your car through intense traffic, nor would you tolerate your rush-hour neighbour doing so. Or […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
You sent them in individually, here they are together! Thank you to all the participants of this month’s gathering of the photos we made and like the best, in all of May. Entries are presented in alphabetical order, with the text some of you have supplied. Lining up all your photographs, and reading your kind […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
Monochrome images in shades of green. Today, it rained. That’s it. It’s big enough news for me to warrant a post and a few shots 🙂 This is monsoon season in Green Provence, the little corner of Provence that receives enough rain every year to support huge forests. There are stretches of the motorway […]
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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 | Art & Creativity , How-To
Some final thought on this intriguing 24:65 aspect ratio, using a longer lens. After my first posts about the X-Pan crop (24:65) available on the Hasselblad X1D, both using photos made made using the XCD30 lens, two readers asked me what this might look like with a longer lens. Given this overwhelming demand, how […]
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