Urban Tribe
First week in Philippines is behind us know. We have jumped the jetlag and spent the past 3 days helping at several feeding programs for the urban poor… a real mind-twister at some level, but in truth: it just seems like the right thing to do – normal. So far have visited two squatters villages […]
Death to dust bunnies
Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s a dust bunny! In fact a flyin’ burrow of them. You’re looking at 1500 identical pixels from the CMOS chip of a Canon 5D dSLR – cropped from two separate images of a blank piece of paper. On the left is the crud-studded photo sensor prior to […]
Photo opportunity or opportunism?
Phone rang the other day… photo desk of national newspaper asks if I can accompany a writer to Big White ski resort, 90 minutes south of here. “Cool,” says I. “What’s the story?” “That Aussie, Leigh Barnier, that was killed in the avalanche…?,” says the PE, probing my reaction. “A reporter is doing a story […]
