David duChemin is a world & humanitarian photographer, best-selling author. David recently took a fall during one of his workshops in Italy, and is still recovering from his ordeal. With me finding out last week that I have a brain tumour we find ourselves with a...
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Episode 289 : A Chat with Ibarionex Perello
Today, I'm proud and honored to be joined by fellow Podcaster and friend, not to mention just amazing photographer, Ibarionex Perello. Ibarionex is a photographer, writer, educator and filmmaker with over 20 years of experience in the photographic industry. He's been...
A Few Pics from the Antarctic
Hi All, After 13 days at sea, with six or so in the infamous Drake Passage, I'm now sitting comfortably in the Jetty Visitor Center in Stanley, the Falklands Islands, with a loaded Wifi Ticket, and I'm gonna use it! With Skyping home high on my priority list, I...
Podcast 276 : A Chat with Syl Arena
I’m really pleased today to be able to bring you a recording of a chat that I had with photographer Syl Arena this afternoon. Syl is like the Canon version of Joe McNally, and like Joe, his teachings aren’t specific to any one system, so not only will any photographer...
Podcast 273 : The Nature of Japan Exhibition in Retrospect
As you’ve heard in recent months, as I kept you up to date on my preparation, I had my first solo exhibition called “The Nature of Japan” at the H.A.C. Gallery in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo, from December 23rd to the 30th. The show went incredibly well in many respects, and...
Podcast 271 : Printing and Framing for an Exhibition (Video)
Now that my ten gallery wraps for my December show "The Nature of Japan" are finished, I have started to work on the 28 standard fine art prints that make up the total of 38 pieces. Over the last few days though, I realized that I've figured out a number of ways to...
Podcast 270 : The Therapeutic Power of the Creative Process
In July of 2009, I wrote a blog post called "Being in the Zone", in which I relayed my thoughts in relation to something that Richard Annable, an amazing wedding photographer from Australia had said in an episode of the Shutters Inc. podcast. In the podcast the...
Podcast 269 : More on Planning a Photography Exhibition
As you probably will have already heard, I'm holding an Exhibition of 38 of my Nature of Japan images from December the 23rd to the 30th this year. With it being exactly a month from today, and bearing in mind that I just completed ten 20x30" gallery wraps that I'll...
Podcast 266 : Signing Fine Art Prints and Canvases
Many times I've been asked how I sign my fine art prints, and having received an email recently from listener Tanya Mattson from Pennsylvania, USA, I decided to go into a little bit of detail on this in today's episode. Apparently Tanya and her husband had watched the...
Podcast 265 : Sept 2010 – Changes – Assignment Winners
Today we're going to take a look at the winning images from the September 2010 MBP and WebSpy Photography Assignment, which was on the theme of Change. We had some interesting voting results for the September Assignment on the theme of Change. Although I didn't notice...
Podcast 262 : Preparing for a Gallery Exhibition
In working on preparation for my first solo exhibition in December, I found myself doing a few things that I thought you might find useful, so I'm going to share these ideas today, and I'll tell you a little more about the exhibition venue etc. at the end of this...
Podcast 261 : Going Pro Update #1 and Misc Updates
Just to recap if you are just joining us, or are catching up for the first time in a few weeks, at the end of August I tendered my resignation for the day-job that I've been working in for the last ten years, and I will be dedicating all of my time to photography...