If a passion for orchids ever grips you then you have to learn to accept ‘failure’ as an integral part of the fascination (even obsession) that finding such capricious creatures engenders.
I have heard lovers of orchids described in English both as Orchidomanes and Orchidophiles – the epithet is a tad ambiguous since the name orchid [...]
It’s a quiet country road and you approach a small set of road works. As you do so, the light turns to red. You can see there are no vehicles at the light on the other side nor any approaching. The road is open. So why do so many people stop, letting conditioning master reason? [...]
Do you know that great calm that comes from abject terror where you are so scared that you cannot even allow yourself the luxury of a scream? Having a hard drive with 20,000 image files on it resolutely refusing to be recognised by any of your computers engenders that…I know.
The item is a 1TB Western [...]
Do you ever get the impression that some magazine editors seem obsessed with the idea that photographs are somehow only ‘creative’ if insects and flowers are depicted out of focus and ‘innovative’ if composition is decidedly poor?
Many of the best jazz musicians had years of hard classical training behind them before they began to venture [...]
I received this press release from competition organiser, Maggie Gowan, today. I’ll be helping to judge the 2020Vision Special Award which I reckon is the really exciting prize. No animal models though, please…
PRESS RELEASE
British Wildlife Photography Awards www.bwpawards.org
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Win a prestigious award, up to £20,000 worth of prizes and exposure [...]
Apart from a trip to Belgium planned for late April, it looks like pretty much all of my photography this year will be done in Scotland, or at least, on this island off the west coast of Europe. The reasons why this is happening are suggested in a new column I’ve written for Outdoor Photography [...]
And so the witchhunt has begun, the vitriol is being enthusiastically spouted, the sanctimonious (me) are galloping around on their high horses whilst all the time the air is thick with the familiar smell of hypocrisy…..the target of all of this it seems is one misguided Spanish photographer. So just to clarify, what has this individual [...]
I suppose that, in the interests of fair play we should lead with the statement that Mr Rodriguez continues to “strongly deny that the wolf in the image is a model wolf…”
Right, that’s done. I am as angry as Niall: I saw the announcement after he did then went out for a walk in the [...]
So, the story is out now and the winning photograph in the 2009 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has been disqualified.
I hate it all: that the guy did it, that the scandal is arousing more interest than all the issues the pictures in the competition highlight, that the competition is now more about people [...]
photos © Erwin Christis
As anyone who spends time trawling the Web will know, there is a great deal of photographic talent out there. But it is altogether rarer is to find that talent given a focus and put to work. My Belgian friend, Erwin Christis, is a landscape architect by training but a photographer by [...]