Here we are at the end of 2008, and I thought once again, it would be a good time to look back at the year, and see what went well, and what I didn’t get to. Having been a pretty tough year in many respects, it’s definitely not all good, but let’s look at my 2008...
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Canon EF 14mm F2.8L II USM Lens (Podcast 168)
Today’s episode is the last of three in which we’re taking a look at three lenses that I have picked up in the last few months, and not talked about yet. In the first two weeks we looked at the Canon 135mm F2 L prime lens and the TS-E 90mm F2.8 Tilt-Shift Lenses....
Canon TS-E 90mm F2.8 Lens (Podcast 167)
Today’s episode is the second of three in which we’re taking a look at three lenses that I have picked up in the last few months, and not talked about yet. Last week we looked at the 135mm F2 L prime lens. Today we'll take a look at some shots from the Canon TS-E 90mm...
Canon EF 135mm F2 L USM Lens (Podcast 166)
From today, possibly for the next three weeks, I’m going to do a bit of a review of three lenses that I have picked up in the last few months, and not had a chance to talk about yet. Today we’ll take a look at some shots from the Canon EF 135mm F2L USM lens. In the...
Interview with Rick Smolan (Podcast 165)
Today TIME, LIFE and National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan joins us to talk about his life in Photography, and about his latest book projects, America at Home and UK at Home. Use this audio player to listen: Show Notes Here are the Web sites for the latest...
China – The Great Wall & The Forbidden City (Podcast 164)
Last week, on November the 20th, I went to Beijing, China, for a very short business trip with my day job. I had planned to be there for an extra day though on Saturday, and people that I was visiting had kindly agreed to take me and my boss site seeing. We were...
Assignment #18 – Agriculture (Podcast 163)
Today [Nov 17, 2008] we look at the winners of Assignment #17 on Agriculture, and kick off the next Assignment on Portraits. This is another ad-lib episode, so please do listen to the audio if you want to hear me talk a little bit more about the images. Joint Second...
First Autumn Colour of 2008 (Podcast 162)
This week we take a look at some shots of the first colour of autumn, 2008. I also talk about some panning shots of a waterfall. LR2Mogrify is a new plugin for Adobe that enables you to add resize, sharpen and add frames to images during export. This is just what I've...
Canon PowerShot G10 Review – Part#2 (Podcast 161)
On October 17th, 2008, the Canon PowerShot G10 high end compact digital camera went on sale here in Japan, and I went straight to the shop at which I’d placed a pre-order to pick mine up. I’ve started having fun just having a small camera to drop in my bag for those...
Canon PowerShot G10 Review – Part#1 (Podcast 160)
Last Friday, on October 17th, 2008, the Canon PowerShot G10 high end compact digital camera went on sale here in Japan, and I went straight to the shop at which I’d placed a pre-order to pick mine up. I’ve had a lot of fun over the last few days just having a small...
The Cosmos “Flowerscapes” (Podcast 159)
Following on from last week’s episode, when we looked at some Equinox flower shots from a place called Kinchakuda, I want to look at some Cosmos flower images that I shot at the end of the day in a field near to the Equinox flowers. I was thinking to also look at some...
Equinox Flowers Revisited (Podcast 158)
September 23rd is a national holiday in Japan, to celebrate the autumnal equinox. Those that have listened to archives, or have been following this Podcast for a while might remember that I spoke about an Equinox Flower shoot two years ago, in which I showed you seven...