Next street shoot session in Vancouver
I’ve had some emails enquiring about when I plan to do another street shoot in Vancouver this year. http://www.flicker.com Let me explain here that setting up a street shoot session for a group of...
View ArticleMr Maitani does it again!
Remember Mr Maitani? The guy who designed the Olympus Pen cameras? That’s right! You read about him here yesterday, yes? One would have thought that the adulation he received after designing the Pen...
View ArticleStreet cellphone shoot!
I think I need help! No, no….I don’t mean mental help…..I need help with my email workload. If I were to somehow show you what my email inbox looks like every other day, you’d fall flat on your faces,...
View ArticleThe true test of a good street shot!
Whenever I get together with a few people in Vancouver, who want to shoot street scenes, I always try to point out to them that by all means they should shoot whatever their mind’s eye tells them to,...
View ArticleMore of your street shooting stuff, please….!
Just a couple of days ago, I wrote a short article about what street shooting is all about, or should be all about. That article must have attracted a lot of readers’ attentions, judging by the number...
View ArticleSomeone asked me, “What’s so special about street shots”?
Short question…short answer. “Street shots? One-off minutiae of life” Filed under: Classic film cameras
View ArticleComing soon! The Street shooter’s workbook!
facebook.com A lot of readers have asked thousands of questions about street photography…what to do, how to do it, how NOT to do it, etc. We’ve already talked about this quite a few times but the...
View ArticleCommon question…”I don’t know what to shoot…”
That is a very common email I get! “I’ve done street, I’ve done macro, I’ve done landscape, I’ve done portraits, I’ve done children, I’ve done animals..there’s nothing else left..” The first thing i do...
View ArticleWhat a street mural!
http://www.tumblr.com/itsallovernowbabybluee Filed under: black & white photography, Classic film cameras
View ArticleThe work of an unstable mind..or a genius? You decide…
Continuing with my series of articles about unknown or little-heard photographers and artists, I came across another guy who I’d never heard of. Again, as I mentioned to my reader friend Robin, almost...
View ArticleComing up in the next few days….
…the street photographer that you’ve probably never heard about…! Plus..this week’s favorite website… Filed under: black & white photography, Classic film cameras
View ArticleA man, a camera, a city, and it’s people….
There is a man, living in a city, in the USA. This is a very special man. He has been taking photos of as many people as he can, who live in the same city as himself…New York city. But his are not...
View ArticleNostalgia week….
flickr.com Typical London street scene of the 60s….note the long coats worn by men and women….almost all men wore hats then, and ladies always had those head scarves! In the photo, for those of you who...
View ArticleWhy I STILL use film more than digital…
All my readers know by now that I am always pushing film, even though digital is marching on and on. So, today, I will not be putting forward MY views. Instead, I will both start this post and end it...
View ArticleTony Ray Jones…documentary photographer
It’s not often that we get to hear of photographers who have made such a huge mark on the genre, in such a short lifetime, than Tony Ray Jones. He was born in 1941 in Wells, Somerset, UK. Completing a...
View ArticleThe world’s smallest rangefinder!
Just a few days ago, I was on a shooting assignment in Vancouver’s Chinatown area, just taking pot shots of people and mostly anything I found interesting. The camera I was using this time was not my...
View ArticleLet’s get a room someplace…
Taken recently while out street walking in downtown eastside Vancouver…. :) Filed under: Classic film cameras, digital cameras/accessories, journaling & writing
View ArticleA look back into the days of old England!
During my recent visit to the UK, I was walking around downtown London taking shots with my film cameras, when I came upon some very odd looking street lamps. Little did I know that I was looking at...
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