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seeing the light…….
This picture is as clear an illustration of the nature of digital photography as you’re likely to see. The digital photography to which I’m referring is not the one whose algorithms quickly produce the pleasing image that you see on … Continue reading
Posted in 2018, Art photography, Digital photography, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Landscapes, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Photoshop, Still life, Uncategorized, Vendee
Tagged digital photography, France, landscapes, natural beauty, nature, outdoors, photographic media, Photography, Photography course, social networking, Summer, vacation, Vendee
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October photography break in France…
My photography isn’t limited to food and cooking as previous posts might suggest. Much as I enjoy anything to do with good food and creating it, my real love is for image making and writing about it. This October I … Continue reading
Posted in 2018, Landscapes, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Photoshop, Uncategorized
Tagged art, BBQ, Bistro, digital photography, eating in France, food, food photography, France, french countryside, having a good time, Humour, improving your photography, Inspiration, landscape photography, learning, new skills, people photography, Photography, Photography holiday, photography workshop, Photoshop, portraits, technology, Wine
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Photography holiday in the Vendée for food lovers …..Oct 11-14
October is a good time to be in the Sud Vendée, a comparatively little known part of France, where I have been contentedly living for the last 20 years. The weather will be warm and nature will be starting to … Continue reading
Posted in 2018, Autumn, Cooking, Digital photography, France, French countryside, Landscapes, Landscapes, Markets, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Photoshop, Still life, swimming pool, Uncategorized, Vendee, Wine
Tagged Big in France, Courses, digital photography, food, food photographers, Food photography courses, Forest of Mervent, France, Holiday, landscapes, learn about photography, misty morning, natural beauty, nature, outdoors, photographic media, Photography, Photography course, Photography holiday, red wine, restaurants, Roger Stowell Photographer, social networking, travel, vacation, Vendee
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Summer food photography course with Roger Stowell and Olia Hercules…
The sun pouring in through my office window this morning makes me think of summer and reminds me that in June, in partnership with Big in France, I’ll be running a food photography course together with one the brightest of the burgeoning stars … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, clay oven, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Landscapes, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Photoshop, pizza oven, Still life, Uncategorized, Vendee, Writing
Tagged cooking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Olia Hercules, outdoors, Photography, Photography course, red wine, restaurants, social networking, Summer, vacation, Vendee
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NEW Food Photography Course with Olia Hercules 2017
In June 2017, together with Olia Hercules, I will be running a food photography course at the Villa Le Mazeau in West France. This wonderful location. which is one of Big in France’s holiday homes, is set in the heart of … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, BBQ, clay oven, Cookery School in France, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Digital photography, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Olia Hercules, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Photoshop, pizza oven, summer, swimming pool, Uncategorized, Vendee, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cooking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Olia Hercules, outdoors, Photography course, social networking, Summer, Vendee
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A life in photography….
As a preamble, that I’ve been inspired, after seeing an article about Light, a brand new technology camera company, to write a piece about my career and how it evolved through traditional analogue cameras to current digital technology to which I am in thrall. I don’t have many clear … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Art photography, Digital photography, Dreams, fashion, Film, Food photographer, France, Memory, Photography, Photoshop, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged 1968, clear thinking, Clive Arrowsmith, digital photography, Food photographer, France, Hasselblad, Humour, Light Camera, Nikon, Pen F, photographic media, Photography, Sinar, social networking, studio photography, writing
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a little peach on peach action…..
Pêche de Vigne, as a name, would not be out of place on a burlesque billboard.The annual appearance of the flat peach is an event to which I look forward and by which I have never been disappointed. Before moving … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Digital photography, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, peaches, peches de vigne, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Photoshop, Retouching, Still life, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, delicious confection, digital photography, flat peaches, food, Food photographer, France, Frequency retouching, Inert gases, natural beauty, peach, peach family, peche de vigne, Peches de vigne, Photography, Photography course, Summer, Vendee, writing
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Black hood…..trying to see no evil
The ironic combination of telephone and camera diametrically opposes the powerful principle of seeing, speaking and hearing no evil…indeed, it facilitates seeing, speaking and hearing evil. That all three of these transgressions can be done anonymously has not gone unnoticed by … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Digital photography, France, French countryside, Humour, Landscapes, Photography, photography course, Photoshop, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Blackberry, Camera telephone, clear thinking, digital photography, France, Humour, landscapes, Photography, Photography course, writing
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As I like it…
The warmth of the sun on my neck at this early hour together with the deep, dark shadows of my hand on the writing pad augurs well for hopes that my new blind date, July, is going to offer more … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Digital photography, Emotion, Expectation, France, French countryside, harmony, Illusion, Landscapes, Memory, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Photoshop, Reality, summer, Uncategorized, Vendee, Virtual, Weather, Writing
Tagged blind date, clear thinking, digital photography, France, July, landscapes, natural beauty, outdoors, Photography, Photography course, sand, Seaside, simple logic, vacation, Vendee, writing
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Failing to get the point ..
It’s been a long time coming, but it looks like the first pencils are pushing through. Sharpening the trunks to reveal the graphite core has not been easy and has been, in many ways, a disappointment. Ideally the “lead” would … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Bad luck, Digital photography, Excellence, Expectation, French countryside, Humour, Illusion, Luck, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Photoshop, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Caber tossers, clear thinking, digital photography, disappointment, forests, Graphite pencils, Humour, Mother Nature, natural beauty, nature, outdoors, Pennsylvania, Photography, Photography course, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, writing
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Food, Photography & France 