31 May The Analog Line – Part Eleven – Rochester
And not the ones in Alberta or Kent, either - the one in New York that George Eastman owned. Well, not actually owned, as such...
May 2019
30 May Look Up In September
a. Look up your diary or calendar. b. Look up a pencil or pen. c. Look up the website for Birdlife Australia's Birdlife Photography Conference. Here's the address: https://www.birdlifephotoconference.org It's going to be held here in Perth on the 21st and 22nd of September 2019. Thats a Saturday and Sunday, and the venue for the main events will be the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle - an excellent large-group venue. There are speakers, demonstrations, seminars, an external expedition ( limited numbers ) a dinner, and awards, We'll be sponsoring part of it and there will be a great deal of contribution from Australia's photo wholesale trade as well. You can see the schedule in good detail on the website so just repeating it here would delay you - pop over and look at the goodies. I was particularly impressed with the number of Australia experts who will be taking part, and the fact that they have secured a famous overseas expert on Hummingbird photography as a special guest. I'm going to find out more about the event - suffice it to say that if you are at all...
29 May An Older New Idea For Newer Old Users
If you have a tendency to get confused by the very latest developments in digital electronics and have to sit down until the sparkly lights stop, you have my sympathy. Older users often run the gauntlet of newer applications, programs, equipment, sales personnel, and promotional material. We do not always have our children and grandchildren handy to get things going or reset them and in any case it is rather a fraught business - what with all the eye-rolling and muttering. It is often a pleasure to be able to do it yourself...
28 May We Apologise For This Break In Transmission
Today was to have been a treat for you - Stan Davies wrote several travel photography articles that have been waiting here for publication - I thought to give you one today. It was a corker about photographing in Northern Canada with a superzoom camera. While the Wordpress Dashboard here said that the article was published, there seems to be no sight of it on our regular website. I jumped at this and tried another of his works - on photography in Melbourne - this evening. Again it has mysteriously vanished into the aether. No sign of it. I'll be dead chuffed if they come back, but I've no idea where they have gone to. I'm not willing to risk making any more of Stan's good writing disappear by pressing random buttons. I just hope he has copies at home on his computer. Sorry about that, folks. The machinery is easy enough to operate, but when it does random things with no-one to regulate it, it can be stressful. Back to the regular program tomorrow....
27 May Not Perfect, But Not Bad
All those teachers who used to give you 95% on a test - even though you had answered the questions 100% right - and who haughtily announced that no-one could ever achieve perfection - were right. Of course the thing that they did not tell you was that they secretly felt that their pronouncement was 100% right, but that's getting into psychology instead of photography...
24 May The Analog Line – Part Ten – Kharkiv
Or Kharkov, if you wish...
23 May Saul? Howard?
I know you guys are in there. It's no good closing the office blinds and hiding behind your desks. I can hear you breathing. Hard. Look, all I want you to know is that we've got new competition and we're going to have to do something about it. See, I went to the local DIY store - you know the one - they've got a branch in every suburb and you can get drill bits and a sausage in a bun. I just went in to get some Gorilla Glue and MDF board because we're having people over for dinner and I wanted to make lasagna. Are you guys listening? Well, it looks like they're selling cameras now. It's no big deal because they are mostly pine but if they get a foothold in the industry it'll be disastrous. What if they introduce meranti and jarrah? Telephotos in teak? This is just looking for trouble. So I want your go-ahead to start a campaign of sabotage. I've got a jar of wood worms at home that we saved from the last holiday dinner. I could...
22 May One I Prepared Earlier
It happened again. I got a request from someone to use images that they found on my website. They are delighted with them, and I am delighted that they are delighted...
21 May Good Old Lowepro
If you are a person who loses things because they have been stored haphazardly - consider that you have lost more than the goods - you have lost the timely opportunity to use them. Too often you've settled for making do with an automatic shot because you've left the accessories you could have used to do a fabulous job in the desk drawer at home. Reform yourself before it is too late with sensible storage from Lowepro: a. Memory cards If your cards are sliding around the bottom of your camera case amongst the biscuit crumbs and old tram tickets you are going to lose them. You'll pull something out and the gardens section of the Fosgood-Smythe wedding will come out with it and fall under the reception centre sofa. Try excusing that Mrs. Fosgood nee Smythe next day when she wants to see the proofs. Guard your reputation as you guard those cards. Put them into a clean, zipped Lowepro Gear Up bag...
20 May Beating The Gumtree Blues
I like Gumtree - the local swap and sell app that you can run on your computer, tablet, or mobile phone. I have it on my iPad and it's the way I dispose of a lot of unwanted model or studio gear. And I have a secret when I use it - I can do good lighting for the items I want to sell...