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 | Opinion
Some photographers prefer film, like foodies prefer elaborate cooking and fancy dining experiences. Wading through some of my photographs in DS archives, I found a few that have a (vaguely) film-like look and reignited my interest in this topic. None are really quite there, but they each tend to illustrate a specific aspect of […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Photography is serious business. I shouldn’t be having so much fun 😉 Apologies for the title 😉 Also, please understand detox in a non judgemental way. This post isn’t about explaining how creating a photobook magically cleans up and elevates anyone’s mind. It’s a purely personal account, in the hope that the joy of […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Reality is complex. Photographs shouldn’t dumb it down. The sea, the sky, seperated by a perfectly straight horizon. Add a single white dome, with possibly a supermodel running down stairs in a striking red dress. That lone distant mountain with a blue river meandering through a uniform coniferous forest in the foreground. What could […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Internal conflict between photographic aspirations and reality can eat you up, man. Know thyself, right? A few posts ago, I mentioned growing dissatisfaction with my “grabber” approach to photography. For those not familiar with this website, the grabber is one of the 4 photographer personalities proposed by co-author Philippe which describes people like me […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
And there I was torturing my ming, trying to find my new camera of choice … So, I don’t actually own one. Not … really. But all the video watching and article reading devoted to finding my next camera taught me two things: (1) I really must learn to read manuals, because (2) the […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion , Travel Photography
Meeting good friends, visiting Paris Photo, touring “alternative Paris”. And trying to decide whether I can live with a phone as my only camera. If the progression in the above mission statement evokes more than a whiff of a “sublime to ridiculous” in your mind, you’re right in exercising a healthy dose of skepticism […]
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By John Wilson | Art & Creativity , Travel Photography
Real photographers shoot black and white … sometimes colour. (Ted Grant – 1930-2020) Hi All! It’s me again with part 3 of the continuing saga. This time we do COLOUR! The Hedley Art series was in colour, but that was a necessity. Imagine those spectacular paintings in BW … And, I’ve made an Executive decision […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
This stress is one of many options to explain (male) photographer’s constant GAS 😉 Another quick post, to examine a thought that arose after listening to a HiFi dealer interview. My dealer. He explains that one of his customers, an orchestra conductor, owns an old and quite poor audio system. That man reconstructs the […]
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By John Wilson | Art & Creativity , Travel Photography
In Part 2, we wind the clock back to the beginning of the trip, to our first stop in Hedley and The Old Trading Post. You’ll recall … “The first stop on the outbound route east was the town of Hedley on the way to Osoyoos our first stopover. Hedley (pop.242) is an old […]
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