Kia ora tatou:

1. I always intended this blog to be a community. We grow as photographers when we debate and discuss. As Robert Adams said, “Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny but that carry with them a reminder of community.” I depend on my mentors and artists’ models; I also depend on you and I value your visits and the comments that you leave. Please, if you have a thought, a debate or question, ask it, state it, vilify me, whatever. If it is an Ian-Walls-question (many thanks, Ian, you hook me every time!), I will write a post about it. Morris Dancing excepted!
   
2. For those of you still thinking about attending the Freeman Patterson workshop in Akaroa next year, there are still a few places left in the first ( Digital Intensive) and 3rd workshops. This is an ideal place to spend a week working with other photographers and taking a solid step towards photographing with your own voice. The three of us never cease to be amazed at the way attendees’ photography takes a giant leap forward.
3. I am on the cusp of sending out a newsletter. If you don’t get it, that is because you aren’t on my database, and spam laws prevent me sending it out on a whim. You can sign up here or here.
   
4. Last Saturday night I did something I haven’t done in 31/2 years. I went out and shot a roll of film, AgfaChrome RS 1000, dated 12/96. I won’t tell you the number of times I shot, took a look at the back of the camera, and then called myself a Richard. But it was fun. More importantly, It showed me a new technique that I can add to the armoury. Appearing on a Creative Workshop near you…. O, and yes, I have given it a little nudge in CS3. Well, I would, wouldn’t I? I am excited! Now, where is that Mamiya RZ67? And if anyone has fast transparency film in the freezer they don’t want, my address is….
5. On the subject of dirty deeds done dirt cheap, I spent the day out on the Mt. Bossu Road above Little River, waiting for the cold front to arrive. It is one of the few places around here where you can look across the face of a storm instead of staring down its throat. I wanted to take an old (film) technique that I had wondered about ( I am beginning to celebrate my film heritage), which noone, to the best of my knowledge, has written about, and apply it to digital, to see if it would work. An experiment, really. It gave me the weirdest histogram, and it took a couple of hours in CS3 to find a way through to what i was searching for. Dammit, it works. I know what you may be asking, but until I have control of the process, I intend to experiment a lot more until I can predict it. Then I will share….. As a guide, here are before and after images.

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