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Holy smokes. The new Canon 1dx @ 14 frames per second (12fps with autofocus).

I have just returned from Mumbai where I was working with the NGO Avanti Fellows, an organization helping talented children from low-income families to fulfill their ambitions. The visit also gave me the opportunity to explore several parts of Mumbai including a few hours in the slums of Kamaraj Nagar.

It’s my first time to Mumbai. I arrived last night at 1.00am. The famous slums that line the route from the airport to the city centre were invisible in the dark of night. This morning I rose fairly late. It was already getting hot outside when I took a taxi to Crawford Market to start …

MyKeyworder continues to support people from all industries who are looking to either create keyword lists, find images through iterative / suggested keyword searches and generate associative tag clouds. Yesterday it passed the 30,000 mark for the number of keyword searches performed. Again, I would like to thank Microstock Diaries for their continued support. Click …

1 week. 1700 miles. More fast food than you can imagine. The biggest “medium-sized” soft drink I’ve ever seen in my life. Sand. Salt. Lots and lots of both sand and salt. Thunderstorms. Extreme heat. Getting lost. Gorgeous views. Winding roads through forests of pine. Bottles of water. Getting lost some more. Being pulled over …

This is a post to take a look at the LAB v. HDR. I don’t intend for this to become either a tutorial in how to create HDRs nor how to adjust the curves adjustment layer in Photoshop to control A and B channels independently of Lightness (hence LAB). Instead, it is more of a …

Ansel Adams is probably best known for his black & white photography of the Yosemite Valley. His most notable photographs were probably Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, 1927, Clearing Winter Storm, 1940, and El Capitan, Winter Sunrise, 1968. My goal was to try to capture the Majesty of Yosemite as winter approached. More pictures …