…For printing BIG, every pixel counts, and while none of these cameras come close to the level of detail provided by large-format film, in the current market the iQ280 is the best I can get. Beyond that, having played with their workflow and editing software “Capture One“, I really do…
…night to start with 🙂 So, then on to capturing some more of the characters at the retreat – and of course it would be impossible to not include one of the best people in the world when it comes to the hospitality industry, Nick Downing, the General Manager of…
…of being able to actually witness the spring in all its colours are scuppered by one simple variable: Temperature. With water in the spring arriving at up to 87ºC (188ºF), crossing paths with freezing cold, wet, air, that combination generates only one thing – huge clouds of visible steam and…
…be explored in the peace and quiet – don’t worry – but I do fear for what might happen long-term if these early signs of what’s to come are any form of reference. Heading north towards Yellowstone National Park, you’ll quickly come to Oxbow Bend – looking out over Mount…
…at the historic Ahwahnee Hotel, right in the heart of Yosemite Village (and no, it will never be the “Majestic Yosemite Hotel” to me, no matter how many ridiculous lawsuits they want to continue between them!). Having a cosy warm base to come back to from the freezing cold outside…
151 million pixels of pure medium format perfection, combined with the most advanced camera system in the world – all revealed inside today’s announcement and hardware release from the amazing guys at Phase One in Copenhagen. For sure, the IQ4 150MP tech specs are impressive: A Back Side-Illuminated (BSI) sensor…
…disappointing, the Hooker Valley Track delivered its own mini-adventures with swing-bridges, ice-covered walkways and a comedy-show’s worth of slipping and sliding as each of us fell down one after the other every 20 minutes on the way there and back. The view? Simply incredible. The lake was frozen, and while…
…for me, this image was the perfect summary for the wilderness we called home for 5 days in this amazing country. As always, we’ll come to Reiffer’s final thought, and this time it’s on Icelandic food. In summary: Be warned when it comes to ordering food out here! In Iceland,…
“Malaysia, truly Asia” – The jingle on the TV ad, plane intro’s and travel programmes that I’ve been hearing for years and years really did come true last week – and not only for all the good reasons they intended… I’m sat writing this blog beneath bright blue skies and…
…its own right!), I set up on the ledge and started clicking. Sadly, jpeg compression doesn’t do this image enough justice on-screen, but the tones of the sky and detail in the buildings on the high-res image really are better than I could have hoped for when I looked at…
…high. The finalists represent some of the finest images entered in to the competition and have competed against some of the world’s best photographers. Congratulations to all our finalists.” To go with this bit of good news, there was a bit of a surprise waiting for me when I got…
…capture the shot I had been waiting for – but as always, there are challenges, and in this instance there were two: First, finding the perfect wave combination (I wanted a crash against the sea wall) to go with the sun-flare on the horizon. Luckily, with waves coming in every…
Welcome to the W Retreat Maldives – where one of the coolest hotel brands in the world meets paradise on earth. (As you can imagine, it’s a great combination!). Building on the shoots we did at the amazing W Retreat Koh Samui last year, I headed out to the Maldives…
…of landslides (some fatal) along the coast have certainly put some visitors off, but the landscape remains as beautiful and dramatic as ever. During the walk down the hill in the freezing cold, I commented to Nick that we were doomed – a cloud bank was arriving just perfectly over…
…drivers worry me at the best of times, but my time on the Lujiazui roundabout for these 4 evenings has just proven to me they really do deserve the title of “the worst drivers in the world”. I’m very aware that setting up my camera equipment on the ground in…
“The Greatest Wall” – Print available to buy now Since moving to China, I’d looked at the best time to go and photograph the Great Wall (or the sections near Beijing, anyway) – and no time seemed perfect. Winter is VERY cold up there, summer is too hot (and covered…
…birthday is probably not the best of ideas – a bad head is extremely likely. Luckily, having spent the night before in Birmingham (which has some of the most uninteresting bars I’ve ever come across!) that wasn’t a problem, so off to Henley we went to meet up with the…
…turning this post into a vacation-slide-show of places I saw, I figure it’s best to simply give you a sample of a few of the images I remember most, with where they were taken. With that in mind, here we go… That first picture – it’s the fantastic Tuk Tuks…
…on things, take a quick look at the full-size trees on the right in comparison to the rocks in this close-up: So, we now have a sense of scale – how about the weather? Well, that caught us completely off-guard. You see, it had been HOT the whole time we’d…
…doing this to ourselves. As an experiment, I posted the left hand image (above) to an Instagram story. A short while later, I posted the right hand one as well (meaning to get to it, people must have already tapped through the first), with a note that it was completely…
…them are brand new too 😉 We have Shanghai’s crazy ever-changing skyline over the bund, now featuring the Shanghai Tower, completed this year. From New York, the now-completed Freedom Tower now features as the star of the show when photographing the financial district downtown. Along with Tokyo, Dubai’s series now…
