I’ve just got back from the Mountain Travel Symposium in Colordao. We did some night snowboarding at Keystone Ski Resort and here is a short film of it. This was shot using a Canon EOS 5D Mk II. Note the amazing dynamic range and lack of noise in the image (shot at ISO 6400). View a high res QT movie here to see how amazing this camera is!
Sep 24
Kite photograph from speedboat (of speedboat) in Maldives
Welcome to my personal blog site. Here you will be able to find out more about my businesses, photography and occasional writings of interest. This is also a testbed for me to learn Wordpress so don’t be alarmed if it changes rapidly.
Sep 01
Last June I went to Alaska to train a group of surveyors how to produce land maps using helicopter-based low altitude photogrammetry.
The survey was centered on Huslia in the remote bush north of Fairbanks and was a big success. In conjuction with Topcon and the client, a two-piece article was written and published in the world’s survey press.
For me the trip was an adventure to a part of the world I’d always wanted to visit. After leaving a wet, grey Wales, a sweaty stopover in Mineapolis, landing in Fairbanks was just like landing back in Cardiff (grey and wet) - but with more trees. I joined the survey barge which departed 2 weeks earlier after a four hour helicopter flight. The pre-flight briefing involved showing me a loaded pistol under the pilot’s seat for shooting bears (only in the eye socket as their heads are too thick to penetrate with a bullet), and a mosquito net (”if we go down and you’re too smashed up to walk then the mosquitoes will eat you before the bears get to you”) said Chris the Swiss pilot.
Click here too view a slideshow of some of my photographs of the trip
Feb 06
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My aurora shot from Kulusuk in E. Greenland was used on the current cover of Bostonia - the Boston University Alumni magazine for their cover article on space weather and its effects on global telecommunications. Read the article here.
Feb 06
With a little help from the folks at Evrium I’ve been updating my website.
Over the next few weeks all the images will be optimized and reprocessed so the best of my favourites will get better. I was prompted into doing this after binning my PC and buying an iMac and consuming a few hours of podcasts on Adobe Lightroom. Wish I’d done that years ago.
you can see it HERE
Feb 06
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The museum of social anthropology in Germany, Leipzig, the “GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig” is using some of my Inuit portraits in a new permanent exhibition of American cultures
Jan 08
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December 2007 saw some big storms here on the South Wales coast so I headed down to Porthcawl to photograph some of the huge waves slamming into the harbour wall.
I submitted one shot to the BBC who nominated it best local photo for December 07.
Another strange thing happened on this shoot - the following day one of my pictures was on the front page of The Times newspaper, only it wasn’t. It just happened to be another photographer next to me who shot the exact wave at exactly the same split second (see below - that’s my picture on the right).
Jan 01
iStat Menu: lets you monitor your system right from the menubar. Included are 8 menu extras that let you monitor every aspect of your system
iStumbler: the leading wireless discovery tool for Mac OS X including airport and bluetooth
Senuti: copy music FROM your iPod to your Mac and now it supports iPhone - great
Aug 08
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August 4th 2007 and I was the photographer at my friend Maria’s wedding in Ludvika, Sweden. Nothing could have prepared me for how stressful it was - especially as my new Canon 1D Mk III broke down on me as the bride was walking up the aisle, but thanks to a 5D backup I was generally pleased with the results:
