I feel like I should share this… each year (well for the past two), we’ve been sharing our yearly best images over at Lost in Focus. This year, I have to say though, I’m blown away with the quality. When I see the images on the site coming through every day, it’s sometimes easy to forget just how good some of it is. It’s only when you step back and see the very best images as a collection that it puts it in perspective. Anyway, here’s the link – each …

Regular visitors to this blog may already be aware of a photo community site I run called Lost in Focus (www.lostinfocus.org). It’s a site that I started a few years ago to get away from the typical photosharing sites that I had grown frustrated with and has quietly grown to a dozen or so wonderful contributors.
It’s been about a year since I made the last major improvements to that site and this time round I thought it’d be a good idea to solicit ideas from everyone (and not just current …

Most of you who are familiar with my pictures will already know recognise Akuri from my pictures. Well recently, she’s been active behind the camera, making use of one of my Olympus OM-1′s. Here are a few pictures from her from the past couple of months… It’s interesting – our house has been filled with the best DSLR equipment in the past 5 years yet Akuri’s never really picked up a camera with much interest. It took an old dusty OM-1 lying around to get her on the photographer side …

A recurring theme has been coming up a lot recently with photographer friends of mine – about the importance of photo projects.
Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned professional who just happens to be stuck in a slump, my best advice to get things going again is to pick a project. The idea of a project can be extremely simple – even just a single word (e.g. “happiness” or “rain”). Once you’ve chosen it, shoot that, and nothing else, for a month. A project has the effect of constraining what …

This ad is cool. I first saw it about a year and a half ago when an agency in Singapore called me into their offices to talk about an idea they had for a commercial spot. It’s of the Rebel XSi.

There’s some background on the web regarding the making of this advert – for that 30s spot, Canon hired 10 photographers and over 70,000 shots were taken. Impressive.
The reason why I was pulled in was because the agency wanted to pitch a similar idea to their client (a corporate bank). …

Chase Jarvis is an award winning, internationally renowned photographer based in Seattle, WA. While Chase is well known for his innovative commercial work, he has also gained a large following through online forums due to his willingness to share advice / tips on his blog, his inspiring collection of personal photography and his advocacy of social networking.
“The Best Camera is the one that’s with you” is his latest initiative, a 256 page photography book featuring only images taken with his iPhone. The book was released in 2009, and also coincides …

I’ve been mailed at least a dozen times by students who have chosen either me or the theme “narrative photography” for a presentation / project / etc. People usually find me either from seeing my previous projects of because I come up as the top result on Google on a “narrative photography” keyword search (www.narrativephotography.com also ends up here). Most emails I get are usually questions of what / who my influences are / were, what gear I use, how I manage lighting, etc. I’m always happy to answer but …

I frequently find images that I find utterly inspiring in their originality and that deserve to be seen as many people as possible. Each week I’m going to dig one out from galleries I’ve seen online in the past few…

I am nearly finished with shooting at the abandoned mansion featured in all the images in my Fragments gallery. I’ve just a few last photos to take and then will stop visiting there regularly after this weekend. So these are…

The photo is from Doisneau – one of the master photographers of the 20th century and easily one of my favourite street photographers. The picture was taken in 1950 and has been an iconic image for years. The woman in…