Vivian Maier, Chicago Street Photographer

Vivian Maier, Chicago Street Photographer

Amazing story about a lady and her art. While you only get to see a few of her shots in this video, you can see her brilliance coming through.

Update: You can see some more of her work here on blogspot.

| 07 Jan 2011 | #

A new toy

A new lens got added to the collection today, a Canon 24-105mm f/4 L IS. I'm just a wee bit excited :-)

| 10 Mar 2010 | #

12 Month Anniversary

Yesterday was the 12 month anniversary of starting my photoblog - Learning 2 See - an attempt at posting one image per week day, in some sort of thematic grouping.

What it's shown me is that producing quality shots on a regular basis is really difficult. It's an incredible time sink. To succeed, you need to be scheduling photo shoots on a regular basis, and being prepared to take enough shots to throw away 90% of them. In my attempt to keep the commitment of a shot per weekday, I've had to use quite a few shots that I'm not happy with - whether it be the composition, or the technical execution that has failed - just so I could have something to post. But out of the 218 or so shots posted so far, there's some captures that I think have worked.

So has it been worthwhile?

Absolutely!

I've learnt a lot, and I think I'm a better photographer today than what I was 12 months ago. But as per usual with any field of endeavour, the more you learn, the more you realise how much you don't know. I've got a long way to go, but I'm glad about the journey so far.

| 23 Sep 2009 | #

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie...

What can be done with an Apple iPhone and a telescope on a clear night?

Crude Astrophotography.

| 14 Apr 2009 | #

What tripod do I have?

So when planning a photo trip overseas I keep on forgetting what tripod I'm currently using. It's embarrassing. So once and for all - the tripod I use is a SLIK U9000.

At least now it's on my blog so I can find it without having to go back into my Amazon account and looking up past orders from 5 years ago.

Oh, and by the way, I'm soon off to Wellington, NZ.

| 16 Feb 2009 | #