2021 has been a particularly challenging year for many. A raft of pandemic-induced restrictions meant that travel was very limited. On top of this, there was the ever present spectre of a snap lockdown here in Western Australia (our State has opted to try and...
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My last article about the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, was all about the beautiful lagoons, reef and off-shore islands. This month, I'd like to share with you something a little bit different: the culture and community of Cocos Malays who call the islands home. Home Island is...
The Cocos (Keeling) Islands look like a tropical island paradise. It is; and it is also a paradise for landscape and seascape photographers! The islands are an atoll, forming a ring around a central lagoon where gaps between the islands connect the lagoon to the...
Let me tell you a story. Some years ago, while running a photography tour with a great group of photography enthusiasts, the topic of photographic perfection popped up. "I'm still chasing the perfect sunset photo," one of our group bewailed. "I see so many of them out...
The holy grail for many photographers is to be able to develop a distinctive Style. But the idea of a "style" seems elusive and perhaps a little too abstract for most people to comprehend. What does it mean to have a style? Let's look at this word...
It's almost a tradition for photographers to share their top 10 images at the end of each year. This year, I thought I'd share my favourite 20 images, instead of 10 -- it is 2020 after all. They're not necessarily the top images or the...
Here is a tip for those who shoot in RAW image format and who would like Lightroom to retain the picture's profile (also called Picture Style or Image Style, depending on camera you use) when it imports the picture into Lightroom Classic (note: this features...
Full disclosure: Thanks to Digidirect Cannington for the loan of the Fujifilm 50mm f/1.0 for the purposes of review. While I have been shooting with Fujifilm X cameras for a few years now, I am not affiliated with Fujifilm Australia. The fact that Fujifilm X users...
You may have heard of the American artist and photographer Saul Leiter, whose photography in the 1940s and 1950s was credited to have brought about the New York School of street photography. Leiter once said in a conversation: “I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt...