Ski Jump and cross Country
Today it’s the turn of the Cross Country Skiers and the crazies who hurl themselves down the large hill and into thin air for some 100m or so – rather them than me! A few less photographers around the venue today as both Alpine with the Mens Super G, and Skeleton on the sliding track, [...]
Another day at the Winter Games
Someone asked me today why we couldn’t have moved the snowboard and freestyle ski events could not have been moved from snow starved Cypress Mountain to Whistler, where we still have plenty of the white stuf, despite the temperature hitting +8C in today’s sun. Unless you visit an Olympic site you can have no idea [...]
Olympics day 4
It seems that finding time to write a blog each day is very difficult. Would never have guessed that I would work longer hours and more pressure as a Photo Manager than as an Olympic Photographer. This was another very busy day at Biathlon, again we were inundated with photographers looking for something to shoot [...]
Olympics day 2
Survived two days of my first Olympics as a Photo manager after six previous Games as a working photographer, and if the experience so far has taught me anything it is that I will never ,ever, again cuss at, denigrate or otherwise abuse a Photo Manger ever again! It’s probably the hardest job I have [...]
Apple Aperture 3.0 released
After much speculation and a too long a wait Apple has finally released it’s 3.0 update to it’s professional imaging program Aperture. I am currently downloading the new version and will report my findings soon.
Blue-eyed Snake
Here in British Columbia we don’t have a wide variety of snake species, and the Gulf Islands where I live are almost entirely dominated by a single species the Garter Snake and an occasional glimse of the rare Sharp-tailed Snake. Although Garter Snakes come in a wide variety of colours their eyes are not normally [...]
Macro Spiders
As autumn approaches gardens are full of a wide variety of spiders feeding on the last glut of flying insects, making fascinating macro subjects. Small apertures are required to render sufficient depth of field often requiring supplemental flash to provide sufficient light on even the brightest of days – the closer your lens to the [...]
Scam Alert
Just to re-iterate the warning I gave in my last newsletter perpetrated by a Mr Chris Tann. Another round of this email scam has been sent out where this person offers working commissions to photographers, citing work for leading companies such as Vodafone or well known magazines. The catch is that he has to provide [...]
Artistic skiing – Cypress Mountain
Another pre-Olympic test event – this time the mens and ladies moguls at Cypress Mountain. Fortunately the fog that rolled in yesterday stayed away for mosy of the day rendering excellent photography. The main test today was physically climbing up the side of the mogul hill to the photographers positions – impossible for those who [...]
Print sales now available on line
We now have a gallery of over 500 selected images available as display quality prints. 200 of these images can be seen in the slide show below. Please view the slide show, or click on an image in the show to view the preview where you can order the print. All prints are produced using [...]
Brazil’s Pantanal
First an apology to those hoping for daily blogs from Brazil. Unfortunately the internet connections were less than I might have hoped for, actually way less! Often taking 30 minutes or more to download a few emails so updating the site was not an option. The journey down to the Pantanal was fairly uneventful, apart [...]
Nikon 105mm Macro lens with Nikon R1C1 Wireless Close-Up Speedlight Flash System with Commander SU-800
First my apologies for the lack of blog posts recently but a number of issues have kept me away from the web site. I will now be posting on a regular basis again. I have just taken delivery of a new 105mm Nikon Micro lens along with the Nikon R1C1 Wireless Close-Up Speedlight Flash System [...]
Red Knot in danger of extiction
Some of my recent photographs have featured Red Knots that are currently migrating north to their summer breeding grounds. I was shocked to learn today that this species is threatened with possible extinction due to the overharvesting of horseshoe crabs, particularly from Deleware bay. While the Red Knot makes one of the longest migrations every [...]
Happy new year and great picture taking to all in 2008
I hope you all got those new photo gadgets, cameras and lenses that you asked Santa for and are already putting them to good use. My wife bought me a book titled “50 places to go birding before you die”. I now realize that I will have to lead at least 50 field trips and [...]