Hi All

Its been quite a while...

I havent had ADSL, and dial-up was a cunt-on-wheels (scuse the language for anyone who was offended by my highly sexual bad language, but really, tough tits). I am back on DSL and happy as a pig in poo.

Ive been working my arse off a City Varsity. The students are cool and wonderful (and could be reading this ) but this last little break has been good.

Otherwise not much else has been happening.

Well lots actually

but you know

i dont like typing much

and love using the enter key

anyway



So i bought a new Camera, a Nikon D200 (Fucking sexy beast it is) and no you cant touch it.



Recently ive been doing a projoct with Old Mutual and Icon Image. Its an Old Mutual On The Edge project, in fact it was the Pilot project and was entitled "Story of a drop of water" (Featured in Die Burger on the 11th of April) Anyway... The project was split up into groups. The story of an urban river, People and the sea, Wasting water, Conserving water, alien vegitation and Sacred water. Oh yes i should mention it was an environmental project. Either way, my team was on the Urban river. We followed the liesbeek river from source on table mountain down to the black river, then followed the black river from althlone to paarden eiland. We actually rafted down that polluted river to shoot it and twas quite enjoyable.

Anyway

enough of that

Im uploading some pictures so have a look at them

thanks

speak soon

and all that

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bye!

Hi all!

Yeah new year *mumble mumble*. Its started off quite well, im moving out on the 5th of feb which should be very fucking good and just about due.

Other news: Some of my photos were featured in the Art Times recently. They were photos of Body Spectra 2006. One of the photos actually made the cover which is pretty cool but im not too sure if i agree with the choice of photograph, but hey its still pretty cool. Apparently a magazine in Rome has expressed interest in those photographs as well so we shall see how that pans out.

This year im also lecturing. Im going to be teaching basic digital photography for first year multimedia and design students at City Varsity. We are actually going to try something interesting, were going to get the students to set up Deviantart accounts (or Flickr, but thats a bitch to set up, blah) and their work will be critiqued and marked over the internet. This way the students can have outside critiques and get a chance to browse their peer's work at leisure. I think this could be quite successful, what do you guys think?

The other teaching job im doing is teaching Digital Photography for the second year Professional Photography students. Ive got quite a nice little lesson plan for them dealing a lot with the cross-over from film to digital, technical theory and software including archiving software and RAW work-flow software. This one im quite looking forward to. There might be some other work in the Pro Photography dept but thats all up in the air.

Im in the process of setting up a website, so hopefully that will be done pretty soon, if anyone out there can give me some advice please drop it my way.


I cant think of what else i can tell you guys, ive got a few jobs lined up and still growing my client base.

Oh yes, i met up with today. You guys must go have a look at her work, i got a chance of seeing the prints of quite a few of her deviations as well as some other photographs. They are very interesting and insightful, certain subtleties that just make them great. go look now!!!!!!

ok

good

see you all sometime soon

P.s Cape Town group members, WTF is up witht he group at the moment?

p.p.s Those of you who dont know Annie Leibovitz go check her out now! go

All the trouble that was mentioned in my last journal has been somewhat resolved. The admin feel that the image is not a journalistic image, which they are almost correct with. It is a feature story image not a news image and there are no categories for Feature Stories....YET. Aparently in 2 weeks there will be a new section for this sort of image so in the mean time it is residing in Emotive Portraits.

Thanks to all for the support.

Some new shit should be comming soon


ps. Check out Helmut Newton, Bob Carlos Clarke, Guy Bourdin and Irving Penn right this instant.

Yeah so as a few of you may have seen i uploaded 4 images last night that were taken from a series entilted "A Day in the Life". This was my final photojournalism piece for the year. The full series contained 8 images but i didnt want to put all 8 up. Anyway im going to blow my own trumpet for a little while here. I was given the highest mark at varsity for them, achieving 84%. An that 84% was awarded by a local Cape Town photographer, he is not a lecturer at varsity, he is a freelanceer who works for AP, Reuters and up until going freelance he was the Chief Photographer for the Cape Argus. I have to say those are qualifications not to be sniffed at. Anyway, he made some nice comments about them, mentioned that the use of compostion and lighting was Rembrandt like, and the full series depicted a story of the middle aged white man's sturggle to find a place or identity for himself in the new South Africa.

Anyway so i put 4 of those images up in my Gallery here, under the gallery category "Photojournalism: People" you know because its a photojournalistic feature story that centers around one man. The definition of that gallery is: "Photojournalistic images that depict people". Makes sense right.

... right?



.......Right?




Well if you answer yes to the following question you would be ... RIGHT! (According to my viewpoint anyway) but according to DA youre wrong and they now own your soul.

You see dear readers, they do not agree with my views on this, they feel those images were put in the wrong place so i was kindly notified that they were moved to a place more suitable...yes you guessed it... Scraps.


This makes perfect sense...right?


So if they read this and decide that i am banned, then i bid you all farewell, but lets hope my second note to the help desk is heard and it all sorts itself out.


If youre interested at looking at the images please dont hesitate to go and look at them in my Scraps.



pps. Check out Helmut Newton, Bob Carlos Clarke, Guy Bourdin and Irving Penn right this instant.

My stay at varsity has come to an end, sudden anti-climax after exams and my final exhibition which seems to have gone down very well indeed. All that is left is a breakfast with the class and the graduation which will be next year some time. Ive been relaxing at the moment, still working though and organising some meetings with various potential clients.

anyway hope all is well in the land of the internets.

See you all soon

ps. Check out Helmut Newton, Bob Carlos Clarke, Guy Bourdin and Irving Penn right this instant.