Monthly Archives: December 2010

A Fear of Reinvention. CB

You start out with nothing: No awards, tear-sheets, books or credit lines. In those early, embryonic buddings of a career in nature photography, you have nothing tangible to hold up to the world as proof-positive of your potential. But then, … Continue reading

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Keeping your nerve. NB

I enjoyed Pete Cairn’s case for creative individuality on his blog recently. It seems to me that a willingness to find your own “pool” rather than trying to push into one already packed with other wildebeest is a vital. The … Continue reading

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An Italian Christmas Carol…without too many ghosts. PHD

For all too few years of my life I was on the Christmas list of an incredible human being – a gay, Jewish, atheist New Yorker (clearly, somebody going for all the Boy Scout Badges) who, as an antidote to … Continue reading

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PhotoFrame. NB

I’ve been using this Photoshop plug-in by onOne Sofware for a few years now and rely on it for finishing many of my pictures. I even wrote a recent review of it for Black + White Photography. But now it … Continue reading

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Context. NB

You are probably weary of people like me writing that there is just so much good photography being produced now that it makes it hard for anyone to have their work noticed. When I started my career 17 years ago, … Continue reading

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Running Back to Nature. CB

I can now say with bashful confidence that I am a runner. Just a very few months ago the very suggestion of this would have brought forth waves of raucous laughter, interspersed with no fewer than three hearty snorts. And … Continue reading

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Workshops and tours with Northshots. NB.

As well as the Senja photo tour for Northshots, we are offering two specialised workshops with the company. The first, on the business of nature photography I have mentioned here before: Northshots is the booking agent for these day long … Continue reading

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Return. NB

Well that was interesting, and maybe even a little encouraging: after failing to blog properly for the last couple of months, I notice that the visits to the site are down a bit. Thank you! And thank you to Paul … Continue reading

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Introducing: Leonardo Battista. PHD

It is some time since other photographers were featured on this blog me culpa, for I should have done something a long while ago and introduced Leonardo Battista, a good friend and excellent photographer from southern Italy, in fact from … Continue reading

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Italian Tale 3 – Seven years and no (h)itch. PHD

Isolation makes one reflective I find…we have been cut off for days, unable to get any vehicle close to the house as the often dry ditch that marks a part of the border of our plot is now a raging … Continue reading

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