August 2010 Calendar
The August 2010 desktop calendar is now ready for download. Once again, it comes in a variety of sizes covering everything from large screens down to iPad and iPhone. As always, the links are below. This month’s photograph is 100m or so downstream from Emerald Peak waterfall in Taiwan. It’s an outtake from a recent [...]
Safari : A Monograph. Reviewing the latest Craft and Vision Release
As the second release in Craft & Vision’s The Print and The Process, we travel on safari with David du Chemin to Kenya to look at a variety of issues concerned with creating these images, including gear, techniques and the overall why and how these images were made. Read on for the review, and to [...]
July 2010 Desktop Calendar
Time for another monthly desktop calendar that you can download for free. This photograph comes from the moat that surrounds Angkor Wat in Cambodia. As always, there are a number of different sizes, including an iPad sized version. Choose the appropriate link below for your screen size. 2560×1600 1920×1200 1680×1050 1600×1200 1440×900 1280×1024 1024×768 – [...]
Telephoto Lenses
I know that I’m not alone when I say that one of the very first extra lenses I wanted was a telephoto. Unlike today, when I was first starting out, I wanted to go long. These days, my longest lens is a 70-200mm and most of my time is spent shooting at wide angles or [...]
Birds in Flight
One of the toughest challenges a nature photographer faces is capturing birds in flight. The keys to success in this are speed and patience. Birds fly at a variety of different speeds but one thing they don’t usually do is hang around waiting for you. Even for the experienced bird photographer it sometimes comes down [...]
Waterfalls
A well exposed photograph of a waterfall is something that captures the viewers imagination almost every time. It’s eye candy for those looking at the photograph. It’s also quite a challenge to shoot well, as can be seen at almost any waterfall that is easily accessible to tourists – I guarantee that most people there [...]
Where The Wild Things Are Caged
I think it’s safe to say that pretty much everybody would love the opportunity to go on a safari in African, trek through an Indonesian jungle or raft down the Amazon, in search of wildlife. In reality, most people never get the chance to do this, but that doesn’t mean these animals are photographically out [...]
Get Up Early
When you’re out near a mountain lake in the middle of winter, often the last thing you want to do is crawl out of bed half an hour before dawn in order to take photos. Especially if it were cloudy the night before. But when you do it, you’ll find that you’re glad that you [...]
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 [...]
September Desktop Calendar
Rolling into another month means it’s time for the free desktop calendar. For September we have one of the two giant pandas that China loaned to Taiwan at the end of 2008. Since the exhibit opened to the public in early 2009, attendance figures for the zoo have increased despite the poor economy and even [...]
Oceanic Sunfish – The Mambo Fish
Considered a delicacy in Taiwan, Japan and Korea, but banned in the EU, the ocean sunfish, or mola mola, is found in temperate and tropical waters all over the world. The mola mola is the heaviest bony fish in the world, weighing up to 1 ton (1000kg) due to a diet consisting of large amounts [...]
Taiwan Delicacies – Mambo Fish
Considered a delicacy in Taiwan, Japan and Korea, but banned in the EU, the ocean sunfish, or mola mola, is found in temperate and tropical waters all over the world. The mola mola is the heaviest bony fish in the world, weighing up to 1 ton (1000kg) due to a diet consisting of large amounts [...]
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 [...]
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