Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Harold Cazneaux

Harold Cazneaux was an Australian pictorialist photographer. A pioneer whose style had an indelible impact on the development of Australian photographic history. Harold Pierce Cazneaux was born in Wellington, New Zealand on 30 March 1878. His family moved to Adelaide in the 1890s and Harold started working in his father’s studio and attended H. P. Gill’s evening classes at…

Chaotic state of thinking

They are a few questions that I have been asking myself lately. Why am I doing this? What are my goals? Who am I and most importantly who am I as a photographer? Although I love technology, I am not a gear head. I have been using the same camera for as long as I…

Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Burton Brothers

Burton Brothers was one of New Zealand’s most important nineteenth-century. Alfred Henry Burton (1834–1914) and Walter John Burton (1836–1880) were born in Leicester, England.  Their father, John Burton, was a prominent photographer in the region.  His firm, John Burton and Sons, was patronised by Queen Victoria and other members of the Royal Family. In 1866…

Learning to experiment

I am often in awe of others ability to experiment when creating. Whether it is photographers, illustrators, painters and even more multi-disciplinary artists, you will find a various array of artists whose work that often inspire me. However, I haven’t allowed myself to experiment as much as those that I admire. Perhaps, it is because…

Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Samuel Bourne

Samuel Bourne was a British photographer known for his prolific seven years’ work in India. His name is synonymous with British and Indian photography and he is the most researched and acclaimed colonial photographer. Bourne was born on 30 October 1834, at Napley Heath, near Mucklestone, on the Staffordshire and Shropshire border. After being educated by a clergyman near Fairburn,…

Learning to see is about Patience

‘Luck is where preparation and opportunity meet’ – Seneca Seeing so many great images of others and hearing about how long they’ve been inn the field can give the misconception that everything happened overnight. The truth is that there’s an incredible learning curve. It takes times to learn, to observe light, the quality of available…

Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Adolphe Braun

Adolphe Braun was a French photographer, best known for his floral still lifes, Parisian street scenes, and grand Alpine landscapes. Adolphe Braun was born in Besançon in 1812. His family relocated to Mulhouse, a textile manufacturing center in the Alsace region along the Franco-German border at the age of 10. He showed promise as a…

Not every moment needs to be a Photograph

In this digital era, it is so easy to get lost behind our phones or cameras to capture everything that we see. It is also so much easier to capture an unlimited amounts of photographs provided that we have the memories to store everything. As much as I believe that it is important to capture…

Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Frank Gohlke

Frank Gohlke is an American landscape photographer, awarded two Guggenheim fellowships, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Fulbright Scholar Grant. He bought his first camera as a teenager and was a member of the Wichita Falls camera club during high school, eventually purchasing an enlarger and learning to process gelatin…

Timelessness of Film

Even though I started photography in the digital era, I’ve come to love film and all of its qualities. My first choice has always been black and white and my favourites being Pancro 400 and Kodak 400 Tmax. I love their strong contrast, grain and tonal range especially the atmospheric result that it gives. I…