Archive for May, 2010

Announcing Focus For Humanity – helping photographers focus on helping humanity

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We are delighted to announce the launch of an exciting new Not For Profit Organisation, FOCUS FOR HUMANITY that I have co-founded with Santa Monica based Loren Roberts Focus for Humanity (FFH) is a US based non profit foundation that supports amateur and professional photographers throughout the world to focus their work on telling cultural [...]


How to create order from disorder through split toning

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I am slowly – all too slowly – working my way through the 5000+ images that I took in Italy earlier this month during the Italy Within The Frame workshop with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman, and one thing is for certain is it has helped me to optimize my Lightroom workflow! Most of the [...]


Italy Within The Frame – Day 9 – Burano

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Burano is a small island on the outer reaches of the Venetian Archipelago that few people bother to visit. The nearer and more famous island of Murano with its tradition of glass blowing and the manufacture of its distinctive colored glass objects d’arts, seems to be more of a magnet for the tides of tourists [...]


Italy Within The Frame-Day 8-Venice

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Venice is a city in trouble. Few of us will have failed to read over the years the stories that Venice is sinking. This once grand trading city state, that dominated merchant trading for centuries, and yet has manged to retain much of its medieval and renaissance character today, is fighting a losing battle against [...]


Italy Within The Frame – Day 7 – To Venice by Train

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Crossing Italy by train today as we move from Camogli to Venice has given me the chance to catch up on a preliminary sort of the nearly 5000 images I took last week. It is odd to review a body of work taken over such a short period of time and to begin to see [...]


Italy Within the Frame – Day 6 – Portofino

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The Italian Riviera has for years been a playground for the rich and famous. The once quiet fishing villages where time and modern convenience had for so long passed by without the most casual of glances, have been transformed into chic resorts, full of designer boutiques, restaurants and bars advertising or sponsored by a leading [...]