Favourites of Flickr: Olgeir

Generally on sites like Flickr, you see the most interesting photos (i.e. Explore) and you see the shots from your contacts and in the groups you review, but this can sometimes be something of a closed circle. So, I thought it was about time I started telling you about some of the contacts I have [...]

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MPFA Interviews David Duchemin

The Magical Place Fine Art blog has posted another of its interviews. This time with travel photographer David Duchemin who does a lot of work for NGOs. What motivates me is the children I meet assignment after assignment. I was just in Nepal working with World Education Nepal and I met children working picking trash, [...]

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Brideshead Revisited

Actually I should say Brideshead Visited instead of revisited as this was my first time at Castle Howard. The stately home in North Yorkshire was the setting for the early 80′s TV show starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews and more recently was also chosen for the new film from Miramax.

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Lightroom 2.1 Released

Lightroom 2.1 is out to fix a few bugs, improve stability and performance, and provide the last Abode Camera Raw profiles. You should be prompted to download and install the upgrade when you run Lightroom, or you can get it on the Adobe site. One of the fixes I wasn’t aware of is that if [...]

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Autumn

Autumn is here and it looks like we’re going to get good colours in the trees this year. I went for a walk today around one of the local reservoirs and the trees are almost at their best. Another couple of weeks and they should be great for landscape shots.

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