December 4, 2006

The calendar season

Just a quick note for anybody looking for suitable Christmas presents: two calendars have recently been published with photography by local (to me, anyway) photographer Alessandra Meniconzi. The first, "Silk Road", is a follow-on to her excellent book (and also highly recommended) of the same title. You can buy it...

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August 30, 2006

Real World Sharpening

When I first saw that Bruce Fraser had written a new book on image sharpening with Adobe Photoshop, I had two thoughts - first, how does he resolve the potential conflict arising from his involvement with PixelGenius and the PhotoKit Sharpener product, and second, do we really need a...

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September 15, 2005

David Ward - Landscape Within

I don't quite know how I missed this book. I am an avid reader of landscape and nature photography books, and I had a passing, chance encounter with the author, David Ward, last year, but I missed it. Clearly Amazon's "you might like this" algorithm needs some tuning. I...

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April 12, 2005

The Silk Road

The Silk Road is the title of a book recently published by Swiss traveller and photographer Alessandra Meniconzi. I've wanted to post on a review of this for some weeks, but just couldn't find time to do it...so this mini-review will have to do for now. Bringing together photographs taken...

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March 30, 2005

Helmut Hirler - Iceland

I discovered this book by the German landscape photographer Helmut Hirler in Zürich. It is one of a small series of very nicely produced panoramic photography books, but this one is really quite different: black & white, mainly infrared (possibly all) panoramas of Icelandic landscapes. With a terrain as colourful...

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September 3, 2004

Andy Rouse. Me, jealous ?

I've just finished readding Andy Rouse's wonderful book, Life in the Wild: A Photographer's Year. This has to be one of the best nature photography books around. Andy writes almost as well as he photographs, and his style makes it far from the usual ponderous "a photographer writes" stuff but...

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