Kent Police set a new legal precedent last week, as they arrested a photographer on the unusual grounds of “being too tall”. This follows a year of increasingly unhappy incidents, in which continued reassurances from on high appear to have had little impact on how Police Forces deal with photographers – and reinforces a growing…
Well I had a go at the image library thing with limited success, now I am doing it online myself. A small selection of images are available for download for repro purposes in the online shop starting at $50. This is in a testing phase at the moment but everything looks operational at this stage.…
Thanks again to Gary and Pat from Willow Bend Estate ‘Tynwald’ who looked after Luie and I on the last night of our trip. This is a great place to stay or just book a meal in the restaurant. To quote their information, “Tynwald sits on 40 riverfront acres, and was built early in 1830…
Thanks to the guys at Hawley’s Gingerbread House in Devonport who looked after us while the ferry was delayed. Interesting chat about the state of Tasmanian economic and environmental affairs. More about Hawley’s here. If you are in Devonport drop in for a coffee.
For those following the Twitter feed it will come as no surprise that a new set of images from Tasmania is stating to appear as printed items as well as online in the Flickr feed. After a trip to Tassie with my son Luie last week I have been going through shots taken to produce…
From the range of images in the online store a few that are suitable have now been offered as wideformat. They measure 900mm X 420mm with a frame size 1020mm X 550mm. They are intended to frame in a minimal black frame with an off-white mat. Prices online are $120 unframed and $260 framed plus…
This little application FTP Cam was a little awkward at first but I got it to work so that now as I take an image in the iPhone it is uploaded to a specified location. Below is a current image. I am likely to shoot a new image every few hours so check back here…
Ivy Rowbottom cottage A few years ago I published a letter from Ivy Rowbottom, a lady in her 80’s, who wanted to share with me the history of the old cottage at Broadwater North of Port Fairy in Victoria.I had entered a competition with that image and the picture had been reprinted in the newspaper,…
Over the last few week I have been trialing some HDR ( High Dynamic Range) imaging software, Photomatix in order to get an image that takes in a broader range of lighting conditions. To me it performs the digital equivalent of the old zone system as it was applied by the likes of Ansel Adams…
So it has been quite a few years since I put the site online and with a minor refresh two years ago it was now time to go the full rebuild. This is the result, a WordPress site with all the bells and whistles. So far the online shop has some new images but lacks…