Make it! Don’t Take it!

When people find out what I do, they say: “You take pictures, don’t you?” And I always reply: “No. I don’t take anything! I MAKE photographs.” My photography improved instantly once I adopted the attitude that I was “making” a photograph. Suddenly, I was more aware of what I was creating. I instantly began to have more control over the nature and quality of my photographs. “NEVER let the camera have the last word.” What I mean by that is this: the images you get straight from the camera are just ingredients, they are just fast food, they are unfinished as far as I am concerned. The camera gives you the cake, but the cake needs icing before serving.

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Clandestine Hip Shot ? What’s that ?

Clandestine Hip Shot: Adventure photography means more to me than just tracking the beautiful big cats in the African bush, or sloshing through the rainforest of the Amazon in Brazil, or wading waist-deep in the crystal clear salmon rivers of SuperNatural British Columbia to make that perfect image of the bears in the salmon run. In all of my photo safaris, human culture is incredibly important to me and I try to discover the essential elements that make each culture unique and special. This means photographing people in their natural environment, doing the things they normally do.

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Something Gnu …

May I propose something GNU – Wildebeests as an Object of Beauty. This is a photograph made by Laurie Moore-Moore, one of 10 Explorers (those who come with me on my photo safaris I call Explorers) who came on safari with me to Tanzania, May, 2008.    This image was created in a most creative way. [...]

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Images come from personal inspiration

Sometimes I am inspired by some external event.   The experience causes me to “see the world” in some different way.   This is what happened recently.   While in British Columbia I read the book “The Road”, by

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