By pascaljappy | News
Also, a challenge resurrection. In yesterday’s post, I committed the content-creator cardinal sin of combining two ideas into one piece of content. If a client sees this, I’m done 😉 On the one side, I was explaining – at length (yup, here is a firm believer in longform) – my process for formalizing my […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
Well, August is over. Time to celebrate the great black & white photographs you sent me during that month 🙂 I love black and white photography. Even though recent weeks have seen me trying to up my colour photography game, black and white is where my heart lies. Because it can produce such a […]
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By pascaljappy | News
It is now midsummer, in the Northern Hemisphere. At no time in the rest of the year is the light so hard. For nice colour photographs, you often need to be up early or very late. So, how about a month of monochrome? This is the gist of the open participation challenge Pixii is proposing. […]
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By pascaljappy | Travel Photography
Some of you responded to the call and opened a window onto their surroundings for others to enjoy. Thank you so much 🙂 I hope you enjoyed making those photographs and that others will enjoy viewing them. This first episode didn’t go as I expected and my explanations must have been very confusing as very […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To , Travel Photography
Quick update from me on this new challenge. It appears the topic is still unclear to many readers, so let me rephrase in a more pragmatic manner. Most of us are stuck at home, and international tourist travel is still a remote dream in many countries. I would like someone from Baltimore to be […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , News
All good things come to an end, this will be our final challenge. But it’s been a good one, and things to come should be just as interesting and even more engaging! Storytelling gets a bad rap. Ask any film editor and they’ll tell you filmmaking is manipulation. Politicians wrap up facts and intentions in […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
It’s time for our regular challenges to end. Let me explain why. Let us end brilliantly. And let me tell you why that is in fact great news 🙂 You see, in spite of being a loner who enjoys nothing more than being alone at the top of a mountain with only clouds and the […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , How-To
Well, another tough one, right? This time, you can blame Adrian, I had nothing to do with it. The Bayhem challenge was his (excellent) idea and here’s what came in in reply 🙂 But, first, let’s recap and describe why this is interesting and difficult. The idea was to create photographs in which […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
You’re locked in, trying to protect yourself and others from an epidemic like few of us have ever known and someone throws a spanner in your best laid plan to sit this out with a good book. That someone is Pascal Ollier, put the blame squarely on him 😉 His challenge to you was simple […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , Monday Post
Primavera is upon us. That First Spring is an occasion to celebrate new life, and is particularly relevant on a planet where death counts constitute the main news, day after day, and will likely continue throughout the season. It’s hard for you, it’s hard for me. But it’s easier together. We’re fighting back. […]
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