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Monthly Archives: November 2009
The White Movement grows! NB.
All photos in this post © Lars Andreas Dybvik A few years ago, when I spoke to the Naturfoto group in Trondheim, I met a young photographer called Lars Andreas Dybvik. Since then I’ve been intrigued by his novel take … Continue reading
Book Offer – Photographing Plants & Flowers by Paul Harcourt Davies
I’ve just come back from a 300m amble down our track to where our large letter box sits. where I found a letter from Anova books who handle one of my titles. There is an offer of limited surplus stock … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged art, book, flowers, image manipulation, inspiration, Paul Harcourt Davies, photography, techniques, travel
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Inspiration or plagiarism? AP.
As an enthusiastic and passionate wildlife photographer it is often the case that if I am not actually outside taking images, or stuck at my computer processing them, there is a good chance that I will be looking at the … Continue reading
Posted in Notes from the field
Tagged Andrew Parkinson, coast, creativity, Danny Green, grey seals, ideas, inspiration, Lincolnshire, Pete Cairns, plagiarism, waves
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Macro – bloggery…posting now. PHD
A great deal has been written on macro – I know, I have penned (or fingered) quite a bit of it in books and articles. Sadly, old chestnuts are still regurgitated and sometimes there is a very flimsy understanding of what contributes to resolution, what is sharpness, how do you get it, how can you control depth of field for artistic control…what lenses to use, and so on. It is not hard to get great results – a bit of thought, work and practice and you can forget about the technical stuff and just concentrate on creating images and extending your vision.
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Posted in Articles
Tagged 10mm rectilinear wide-angle, 150mm macro, Clay Bolt, close-up, feedback, high resolution LCD, macro, resolution, sharpness, Sigma
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Flexibility or lack of focus!
I’ve posted these sanderling images as an example of how I frequently end up doing something far removed from what I originally intended. I intended to sit down today and write about Lincolnshire’s famous/infamous grey seal rookeries as it is … Continue reading
Posted in Notes from the field
Tagged action, Andrew Parkinson, behaviour, ethics, grey seals, Lincolnshire, sanderlings, sunlight, waders
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Waxwing, Wester Ross. 2000. NB.
Praise for your work, of course, is always welcome, especially from people who know what they are talking about. But it is never more welcome than from others whose own work, you know deep down, is actually better in many … Continue reading
Posted in The back catalogue
Tagged Cromasaig, Kinlochewe, praise for, Vincent Munier, waxwing
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Origins. 2. NB
It seems to me that there is a lot of wheel re-invention in this business, stemming in part from the absence of a proper literature and catalogue of nature photography from the late 19th century to the present. Without this … Continue reading
Posted in origins
Tagged amphibious hide, dunlin, floating hide, history of nature photography, Knot, precedents, Tim Fitzharris
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In my element. AP.
The mountain hare is undoubtedly one of my favoutrite mammal subjects, both because of the environments in which they live but also how approachable they can be. This is one of the major motivations for me to revisit them this … Continue reading
Perpetuation not perfection. PHD.
Yesterday, while shaping some ‘twiddly bits’ on the bandsaw for a four-poster bed that I am making (typical sort of thing you do to survive as a nature photographer in Italy…) I spotted one of the last of the year’s … Continue reading →