Piering into a different world metaphorically
It seems that piers are in fashion. At least one particular pier in Koh Samed seems to have had it’s fair share of attention from Messrs duChemin and Chapman in recent weeks. Looking at their wonderful images that both exude tranquility and transport you in an instant to a world of hammocks, Pad Thai and [...]
I took that image – inspiration or plagiarism?
One of the challenges that I guess many of us face on a photo workshop is finding the unique angle or shot that allows our own style or approach to be translated into a compelling image, especially when 8 other of your new found photo friends are standing next to you trying to create the [...]
Italy Within The Frame – Day 9 – Burano
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
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
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
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 [...]
Italy Within The Frame – Day 5 – San Fruttuoso
There is something magical about arriving at a new place by boat. I am not sure whether it is the stirring of an evocative past of transatlantic steamers voyaging to the New World or the throwback to family holidays where the ferry – however rusty and battered – magically transported us from reality to vacation [...]
Italy Within The Frame- Day 4 -Camogli
As we left Monterosso for Camogli this morning it seemed that we were leaving behind a landscape of opportunity, color and precariously perched towns that seemed to be just a momentary lapse away from sliding into the rocky Ligurian coastline. How wrong can you be – well about the color and opportunity at least! As [...]
Italy within the Frame – Day 1 Genova
The threatened rain had disappeared to leave a warm spring morning as the Italy within the Frame group set out for our first full day of photo workshop, in Genova, Italy. David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman are organized a very gentle paced walk around the old streets of Genova, helping direct us through the narrow [...]
Italy within the Frame – Day minus 1
The months of waiting for the chance to spend a week in Italy, immersed in exploring my own personal photographic vision “within the frame”, have finished and we are now in Genova, with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman. This morning – before the main group arrived – I went out with Jeffrey Fielding to wander [...]
Giants Causeway within the frame
With only a fortnight to go before I head to Italy to participate in a week-long workshop with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman, it was important for me to start thinking about landscape photography again. The workshop, although called Italy with in the Frame, promises to be a healthy mix of street portraiture and landscape [...]
Graft and vision
I learned the hard way this week that it really isn’t about the kit. It really is about the years of experience, the years of study at the school of hard knocks, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. I wrote recently how through a combination of factors my 5Dmk2 and f2.8 70-200 lens and I [...]
Italy within the Frame
I have been incredibly lucky to get one of the very few places on a workshop with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman in Italy in April 2010. David’s book – With the Frame (available in the eStore) – is one of the most engaging reads around photography, exploring the “Why” rather than the “How” of [...]
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