Posts by Gareth
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Things that happen when you're being a tourist. Taronga Zoo in Sydney, 2003.
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If I may, I'll post links to two photographers - working almost exclusively in B&W - who were very influential when I was first working out how to take pictures. The first is Brian Shuel (collection of his portraits of folk musicians and actors at the National Portrait Gallery here). Brian is very much in the "compose it in the camera, don't crop", Cartier Bresson-ish camp, to the extent that his prints are always made with the now fashionable black border to prove they were uncropped. I learnt a lot from working with him, on and off, for a couple of years.
The other is Irish photographer John Minihan. I got to know him in 79/80 when he was working on the Evening Standard, every inch the hard-bitten Fleet Street pro. He had a column in the photo weekly I was working on, and I ghosted it for him for many months. He'd send in a pic, then meet me in the pub to tell me what to say about it. Great fun.
I still compose my pictures in the camera - most of the time. But when you haven't got time to do that, as Minihan would say, just get the bloody picture.
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Macaque, Batu Caves, KL.
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Looking out of the Chinese temple, Melaka.
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Street food, Chinatown, KL.
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Apposite, I thought. Melbourne in May. iPhone 4S.
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Famous sound in the rain: iPhone 4S
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OK, given it's a holiday morning and I should be doing something else, here are some (relatively) recent pix given the B&W treatment. Most are from my trusty 5D (RAW originals), processed in Lightroom 4 using some of the standard B&W "looks" provided - with a bit of tweaking.
This one's the whaling station in Pelorus Sound.
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Some marsupial! The giant extinct marauding gum eater making a come back...
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to Nora Leggs,
I wish she'd sharpen her shears and make neater cuts.
