Making ordinary everyday things look great in photos is fun but sometimes I forget just how extraordinary some of my everyday experiences really are. Today was no exception as we pressed the zinfandel must and got a first glimpse and taste of our future wine. This is my first wine making experience and although I … Read more
This project started out in a kitchen playing with food. I soon got bored and decided to experiment. To get the light right I turned off all the lights and used a torch but very quickly discovered that white LED torches do not render the full spectrum of colour very well. Oh well, what I … Read more
Wine, wine, wine and a Guinness or two thrown in for Saint Patrick’s Day. So I’m keeping the theme of a beverage laden weekend. Today we were planning to press our current batch of zinfandel but decided it needed a few extra days of fermenting to really dry it out. Rather than waste a beautiful … Read more
There’s been quite a bit of interest lately in ‘light painting’, a curious form of camera blur where patterns of light are created by moving bright lights around a fixed camera during a long exposure to paint images. Well, this is not one of them! This image is the opposite: the lights are fixed and … Read more
I love the fun bordering on craziness of a Dead Reds evening and I love that it’s also in support of a great cause. But try as I might I just can’t seem to not bring my camera! Invariably I hide my camera in some corner and pretend that this time I have come just … Read more
There’s a car in my backyard that’s been parked for a very long time. Every day I watch the cobwebs grow a little thicker. I watch the leaves pile up on the windscreen. I cringe with dismay as the paint flakes ways and the rust takes its place. If ever TLC was needed, it was … Read more
Almost without exception I find people like silhouettes. So what makes them so appealing? I’m sure it would be fun to explore the psychology of visual perception. Relate the role starkness and high contrast has to perceptions of pleasure as a new born begins translating images into a visual world. Perhaps I will one day … Read more
At true 1:1 macro and beyond with ordinary lenses it becomes a battle to achieve any depth of field in an image I took a number of images over a range of apertures and with the subject at such a severe angle I found myself up at f/40.0 just to get those extra millimeters. The … Read more
Point your camera directly at the sun and take a photo. Include some interesting subject matter if you like. Perhaps try for a nice silhouette. If there are any quirks in your optics that you have not yet discovered, you will now. I took a number of shots at ground level looking up through the … Read more
For the past few months we have done a lot of travelling back and forth from Adelaide to the Barossa Valley and every time I pass by this big field of treated pine posts I think how amazing it looks. Standing by the roadside you notice the ordered pattern of posts on an empty field … Read more