The Food Show

The Food Show

If you are skilled in self defence moves and making rugby tackles you’ll be well placed to attend a food show.  The crowds that swarm these events are there primarily for the free food, wine and beer.  I can’t deny that I’m partial to a little...
Street life

Street life

Although cameras are common place these days posse of photographers on the street can still attract attention.  Last Saturday our photography class was on assignment out on the streets of Wellington. Almost immediately my classmates and I split from each other to...
Confrontation

Confrontation

I’ve been out today in Wellington with my documentary photography class learning the difference between picture-taking and picture-making.    The former is where you literally take what you see and snap.  The later is about making a picture by taking what...
Looking deep in photography

Looking deep in photography

I still haven’t finished my landscape assignment so was feeling a bit sheepish when I pitched up for my photography class this week.  Luckily we’ve started a new module – documentary photography – and with new people in the class I was able to...
Contemporary

Contemporary

I’ve always seen myself as a creative pragmatist.  Open to new ideas as long as they are grounded in practicality.  I like real things for what they are, plain and simple and not intellectualised.   Given this you can imagine that my out of comfort zone...