A little while ago I reported on a stylish messenger bag from Peak Design that featured industrial-strength closures combined with an unusual fabric colour. It was stylish to the max but imminently practical - a good example of industrial design finally intertwining with fashion. Well, if...
Anyone who has eaten at a Perth pub has noticed that there are generally three things on the menu: a dish that is so expensive that it makes the rest of the stuff look affordable…a dish that is so cheap that you know it is going...
Flower enthusiasts and botanists - and fungus people - are all experts in their fields. No, really they are. They know what looks good and right and how to grow it or find it. As a result their photos can be wonderful art - provided...
In space no-one can hear you scream. The same applies to your own photographic studio if you pad the walls thickly enough. It’s not the screaming that the neighbours mind - it’s the language. I try not to make the Little Studio into an F***...
Note to readers: You got a surprise yesterday if you were reading this column..the first of an Olympus series was published on Sunday. This is because the writer was adjusting the flux capacitor on his 1:18th scale model of a Delorean and it fired off...
Watching clients persuading themselves to spend large amounts of money was always a fun thing. Even if you were not the sales assistant directly concerned with the sale - standing there with visions of commission dancing in your eyes - you were cheered and encouraged...
Having been taken to task by a reader when he felt I had compared apples to oranges in a week’s posting on Sony cameras, I am going to be careful with this one - I wish to state that I am comparing watermelons to water...
No special skills needed - it's a cut and paste job...
We are told that light goes at 299,792,458 metres per second. That may be so when there is company present but I can assure you that when you are using a pinhole camera the stuff travels considerably slower. While you might get your ordinary photography...
Have all your photographs started to look like Ridley Scott movies? Are the heads of all your portraits surrounded by a golden halo...