St Bathans is a small town in the Maniototo with a history of gold mining. On a recent trip there I was reading a run-of-the-mill information board and noticed the photograph accompanying it. It was unexpectedly large and incredibly detailed for such an old image. Tagged in the corner was Burton Bros – a photography …
On a recent trip to the Maniototo I was shooting the Hasselblad 501cm film camera. One evening up the Manuherikia River the skies clouded over. There wasn’t enough light to shoot without a tripod so I put away the film camera and experimented with shooting the Hasselblad lenses adapted to my digital Sony a7rii.
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Notes and thoughts from attending the YOW Melbourne conference.
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Andrea Magnorsky gave a talk[1] on Bytesize Architecture Sessions[1] :
Bytesize Architecture Sessions are a workshop format that help teams understand the systems they work on. Each session focuses on a small slice of a system. After some sessions your team will become more homogeneous in the understanding of their systems, grow a consistent vocabulary and ultimately build tools to design the future together.
I was interested in …
Over the last few years I’ve been shooting a lot of film. I like the results I get. Within a set, the images have a consistency and cohesiveness. I’m especially proud of:
Published June 12th, 1960. Lawrence Durrell.
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‘You write’, says a friendly critic in Ohio, ‘as if the landscape were more important than the characters.’ If not exactly true, this is near enough the mark, for I have evolved a private notion about the importance of landscape, and I willingly admit to seeing ‘characters’ almost as functions of a landscape. This has only come about in recent years after a good deal of travel – though here again I doubt if …