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Who Owns What – A Copyright Primer

Who Owns What – A Copyright Primer

Essential yet often misunderstood, copyright is something it’s worth taking some time to get your head around. At it’s most basic level, copyright is exactly that, the right to copy. As the creator of a photograph, copyright belongs to you (and for 70 years after your death, your heirs) in most cases from the moment [...]


January desktop wallpaper calendar

January desktop wallpaper calendar

Here we are at the beginning of another year. Happy New Year everybody. Your support and comments was highly appreciated throughout 2009. Now it’s time to welcome 2010, which is shaping up to be a big year indeed. Starting on January 1st is a new little feature I’ve been working on. Many photographers have undertaken [...]


Photoshelter and other assorted bits & pieces

Photoshelter and other assorted bits & pieces

As we draw to the end of the year and the start of another it’s a good time to make a few changes. You’ve probably noticed a few differences over the past few days to the look of this site. I haven’t made any radical changes to the theme however I have enabled a few [...]


Unearthing Asia – Heeding The Call

Unearthing Asia - Heeding The Call

A new travel publication focusing on the lifestyle, culture and attractions of Asia has just made its debut with a recently launched inaugural issue. Unearthing Asia has long been a travel portal on the net for the region and they’ve now moved into the magazine market with the first issue of their glossy magazine. The [...]


December desktop wallpaper calendar

December desktop wallpaper calendar

2009 is fast drawing to a close so today’s post brings you the final desktop calendar for the year. Don’t forget that my 2010 calendar Renegade Beauty | Taiwan 2010 is available to buy for the low price of $24.99. It looks great on any wall, so if you haven’t already done so, place your [...]


Twitter For Photographers

Twitter For Photographers

Twitter. By now the name is familiar to most people even if they don’t really understand it. The whole Social Media phenomena is still in its infancy and people are still getting their feet wet as they give it a try. Below, I’ll give a list of photographers and photography resources on Twitter that I [...]


The War of Art – 3 Questions For Steven Pressfield

The War of Art - 3 Questions For Steven Pressfield

Recently, I bought and read Steven Pressfield‘s excellent book, The War of Art : Break Through The Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. Pressfield, perhaps best known for his novel “The Legend of Bagger Vance”, presents a non-fiction book aimed at writers, artists, musicians and other people attempting to channel and direct their creative [...]


Taipei Photowalk

Only two more days until the first Taipei Photowalk. As part of the Worldwide Photowalk, this years event will be held in Taiwan for the first time, with one walk being hosted by me in Taipei, and another in Taichung hosted by Mark Forman. Details for the Taipei event are : Date Saturday July 18th [...]


July Desktop Calendar

Halfway through the year now and so it’s time for the seventh calendar. July’s calendar comes from a shoot for a magazine article that was done of Taipei 101 from Elephant Mountain, Taipei. Click on the download link below to download the calendar – there are 9 different sizes in the zip file, including iPhone. [...]


June Desktop Calendar

June is upon us and so is another desktop calendar. Before that however, a little update. We’ve completed the move to Media Temple which promises a bigger, more robust hosting experience. As such, regular posting will resume this week, and I have some good stuff coming up. Later in the week there’ll be some images [...]


Hosted via MediaTemple.

Hosted via MediaTemple. It looks like everything is working properly after moving to Media Temple. If you notice any glitches or errors, please use the email link in the sidebar to let me know. I’ll have the June desktop calendar ready for download tomorrow morning, so by the time you wake up on Monday, you [...]


May Desktop Calendar

A new month about to begin means it’s time for a new desktop calendar. This month the calendar is also sized for use on iPhone’s. To those of you in Taiwan, this picture will need no introduction. The famous Lover’s Bridge in Danshui, Taipei county. Have a good month, and don’t forget to check back [...]


April Desktop Calendar

Another month draws to an end, and so it’s time to download a new calendar. One of the torii gates near the harbor in Hualien. If there’s anything you’d particularly like to see as the monthly calendar, let me know and I’ll see what I can do. Also, is anyone interested in iPhone sized wallpapers? [...]


March Desktop Calendar

Time again for another desktop calendar. As always, feel free to download and use it on your computer. If there’s anything you’d like to see on a future calendar, drop me a note in the comments. [download id="3"] [singlepic id=161 w=500]


February Desktop Calendar

After the great response to the free desktop wallpaper calendar for January, I bring you February’s calendar for free download in a variety of sizes. Once again, if the download doesn’t have your size, let me know and I’ll update it. The photo is a 3 exposure HDR shot of Rainbow Bridge, Taipei. [download id="2"]


Weekly Critiques Coming Soon

I plan to start a new feature in the coming weeks. It will be a weekly critique where I’ll take a user-submitted image and critique it. That could be anything from suggestions for how to improve it to reasons why I like (or dislike) it. At times I will run the image through Photoshop and [...]


Happy New Year from Taipei

Happy New Year. 2009 is shaping up to be a great year here at Craig Ferguson Images. Lots of cool stuff in the works, more giveaways, more competitions, more fun. So stay tuned and check back often.


Free January Wallpaper

Free January Wallpaper

As a special thank you to all of you who regularly cruise by here and spend some time looking around, I’m making available the photo calendar below available as a free download for you to use as your desktop wallpaper. The zip file contains a number of different sized versions – I think I’ve covered [...]


Train Delays


Garbled text.

In moving to a new host, something went wrong with some of the Chinese text. If you see a bunch of weird symbols, it’s where it used to have Chinese characters. I’ll slowly go through and edit them all as time permits. Thanks.


Color of Light


Flight of the Egret

He was too quick for me. It is out of focus so I guess I’ll have to say it’s art. Either that or poor photography.


In A Forest Somewhere


Wildflower