Heart of the city

I am a city dweller, I live in Vancouver, BC. Sometimes that can be a hindrance to taking the kind of stark and surreal landscape images that I would like to be taking in the Canadian Rockies or up in the Arctic, but sometimes it challenges me to think a little more. I love Vancouver,…

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Is an iPhone a camera?

Its not a crazy question…promise. I know that we all know that our iPhones or smartphones have cameras built in, but are they any use? Hence the question, is an iPhone a camera? Or maybe phrased differently, is an iPhone a serious camera? Can you use an iPhone as an everyday camera? Many people walking…

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Light – the key ingredient…

This is an excerpt from the eBook I am writing, it is called working with light… Light is the most important ingredient in your photography. Yes, you need a camera, yes, you need good lenses and of course if you will need to know how to use the camera, that will improve your photography exponentially. We…

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Chasing the light

We have all heard it many time before, photography is all about light. In fact the word photograph is a combination of two words, photos and graphos. Photos means light, graphos means drawing or painting. So, literally a photograph is a light drawing or a light painting. Without light, there can be no photograph. If…

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