Monthly Archives: August 2016

Photo Tip 69: Shoot for a post production technique. One of the many virtues of digital photography is that you can shoot to specific post production techniques you’ve mastered (at least in your own mind, he adds).

Just watching Ben sewing the Nalor (nose ornament) through his septum (above) was enough to make my eyes water.

By the end of October, I’ll know whether this photograph I captured has won the $25,000 first prize in the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photographic competiton.

It’s a big call (me versus the world sort of thing) but I love the emotion in this photograph of a handful of buddhist monks playing in a Myanmar monastery. Each monk’s expression carries an emotion – determination, envy, encouragement and elation – right down to the surprised eyeball of the monk on the right. I love it; it’s one of the few personal photographs I have mounted in my own home.

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From the wilds of Papua New Guinea to the wildflowers of Western Australia – surely I could be forgiven for expecting a somewhat less demanding assignment.

However, as I have learned, “wildflower photography” has its own challenges.

Here’s a short preview of the shoot I just did in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. It was the second of two up-market wilderness lodges I photographed for Trans Niugini Tours – the country’s premier tour operator.