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That Mairoon Ali photo

On the HaHaHa productions portrait from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.

Host Andy Johnson and guests (and subjects) Penelope Spencer and Nikki Crosby chat on the TV6 Morning Edtion show about the portrait I did of the group to launch my work on Womanwise for the Sunday Guardian.

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Womanwise photographer notes

Photography technique notes have been posted to my photo blog on the first six subjects shot for the Sunday Guardian's Womanwise magazine. Go behind the scenes with photos of the women of HaHaHa Productions, Sonya Wells, Marjorie Boothman, Patricia Dardaine-Ragguet, Mariel Brown and Crystal Felix here.
Notes on the lightweight gear I use for these photo sessions are to be found here...
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Great Fete 2009 gallery posted

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The stock gallery for Great Fete 2009, from site preparation to Sunday morning is posted here...
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WomanWise: Patricia Dardaine-Ragguet

The Guardian doesn't carry the cover of WomanWise anywhere on its website, apparently, so here's Patricia Dardaine-Ragguet in the photo from last Sunday's issue.
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Gerard Gaskin in CRB

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Pleasantly surprised to find myself mentioned in this story in the new Caribbean Review of Books about the photographer Gerard Gaskin. The author is Christopher Cozier, about whom I never tire of noting that I published his first piece of mass reproduced art, a cartoon, etched onto stencil paper, for the Trinity College (Maraval) newsletter, the Buzzer.

I'm equally surprised to have been one of the people chosen in the first pass of his portrait project on Trinidad and Tobago artists.
Gerard shot the photo here in my front yard, part of the style of the works, apparently, about three years ago. More recent versions of the work have been in grayscale. Photo by Gerard Gaskin, all copyrights honoured and reserved with this reproduction.
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Marjorie Boothman for the Sunday Guardian

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Photographed Marjorie Boothman for the Sunday Guardian last week. Some interesting challenges getting the shot on the location, which is a temporary living space while the family home is being renovated. Here's another outtake from the photography. There's another image on the home page. The painting behind Mrs Boothman is by her son Roger.
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New WomanWise photos

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Here's another outtake from the wonderfully engaging photography session I had with film producer Sonya Wells for the Sunday Guardian's WomanWise Magazine.
There's another unused image on the home page.
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Sunday Guardian portraits

Looks like I might be doing some shooting for the Sunday Guardian's WomanWise Magazine.
Been missing doing stylish portraiture for print since I stopped working on the Business Guardian far too long ago.
The women of HaHaHa Productions this week, film producer Sonya Wells next week.
Click on the thumbnail to see an unused image from last week's shoot.
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AMPOTT Awards Speech, 2009

Speech given on behalf of the judges at the awards event for the 2009 competition. View the winners here... Read More...
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Viey La Cou series begins

The Viey La Cou series begins today with Dame Lorraine. I took extensive notes on these photographs in the late 1980's and have since lost them. If anyone recognises the players, please let me know so that I can put names to the faces.

In the 20 years since I shot these photos, most of these old players have since left the stage and younger players with more enthusiasm and far less history have taken their place. I was fortunate enough to have the chance to capture these images when so many of these characters were still being played by performers who had been doing the roles for decades.

I'll be posting the complete series after they appear on the front page of this website in the Virtual Gallery and putting a photographer's note in the Photo Blog.
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McNally talk posted

The final posting of notes from PhotoPlus Expo 2008, notes on talks given by Joe McNally is posted here...
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Remembering Bheem Singh

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Bheem was always kind to strangers but he doted on his children and their children. Photo by Mark Lyndersay.

Bheem Singh died on November 09 and was buried on November 12 in a quiet ceremony at St Mary's Church in St James.
In one of those curious turns that makes Trinidad and Tobago such a unique and intriguing nation, the man who returned Divali, a Hindu festival to St James with a street display outside his home at Ethel Street, was buried under Christian rites.

Bheem Singh was always kind and generous to me and his tireless patience with my efforts to photograph his work for the festival, so he was, after a fashion, the first of my Local Lives subjects.
I first photographed the work he was doing with his sons on Ethel Street for The Wire, but the photos weren't published. When I came by to apologise for wasting his time, he berated me instead for not visiting on Divali night to share in the food his family generously served to anyone who visited their home.

This year, neither Bheem nor I were at the family's celebrations. He was in hospital while the family bravely carried on with the celebrations and I was was in New York, having carelessly failed to factor in the overlap with my travel.
He was a generous, kind and cheerful man, a great neighbour in St James. He will be missed, particularly when the lights of the deyas are lit each year.

I've finally posted the last three of the published
Local Lives essays, including A Light in the West.
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Fundraisers for Jeffrey Chock annoucned

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Notes about fundraising events for the photographer Jeffrey Chock. Read More...
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PhotoBlog: Lenses, not cameras

A new entry on my photography blog explores the importance of high quality lenses on digital camera bodies. Find it here...
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Chock fundraising

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First notice of the fundraising effort in support of the medical expenses for Jeffrey Chock. Read More...
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Virtual exhibit hall

New image gallery added to the brand new section of the website, The Virtual Gallery.
This new section offers images in much higher than normal resolution (images will be 1200 pixels wide or 1024 pixels high on their long side, depending on orientation) and will fit nicely on a screen that’s 17 inches or larger.
The display is roughly equivalent to viewing an 8 x 10 inch print.

This runs counter to the traditional thinking on web reproduction, these larger files being easy targets for theft. But there’s also a very valuable counter movement, exemplified by
the Boston Globe’s take on photography on the web. Which is, in summary, so what?

I’ve had exhibitions of my work in the past and I still haven’t recovered from the experience 25 years later. I’d rather risk some petty theft and display some of my collections properly than massage my ego with another show in a hurry.

Let me know what you think about the first collection. I have another, much larger “show” waiting in the wings.

To assist you in viewing the images on your screen with greater accuracy, I’ve included these colour bars. Most modern monitors offer some colour controls that will eliminate particularly obvious colour casts.
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The blocks in the bar are from left to right, 100 percent of blue, green, red and black, 50 percent gray, 25 percent gray and 100 percent white (that block should disappear on this page).
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PhotoBlog: Portrait with a single light

The latest photoblog entry is a look behind the scenes at some recent photography for Gayelle TV that’s now on show here...
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Norton website launched

Noel Norton has launched his new website. View it here. There's an excellent history of the studio's operations available on the site. You can read more about Mr Norton and his place in Trinidad and Tobago from my perspective here...
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PhotoBlog: Photographing a CD cover

A note on my approach to photographing an album cover for jazz guitarist Theron Shaw is posted here...
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PhotoBlog: I hate shooting tethered

Notes about the philosophy of shooting tethered are posted here...
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Beat Big Up for La Fleur Morte

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One of my personal projects, La Fleur Morte, is featured in the July/August issue of Caribbean Beat.
The story by journalist James Fuller offers some kind words about my work and manages to date me quite nicely.

I'm not so ancient, however, that I'm likely to be doddering about humming Neil Diamond songs for inspiration, so please note that James misheard me and the quote that he cites is by
Neil Gaiman, not the composer of the film Jonathan Livingston Seagull that some folks consider to be quite inspirational.

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The image enlargements on this page are quite large and will require at least a 17 inch monitor to view properly, but anything less just didn't do the reproduction of the pages and the sample image of the flower of the Chalice Vine (Solandra Guttata) just didn't seem right any smaller.

You can view the story
online here...

You can also access many stories from the current issue of Caribbean Beat as well as archives of the magazine by
signing up for a free subscription here...

There's a blog posting on my website and
links to other material about the project here...

Interview with Magella Moreau and Dennis McComie of Gayelle TV's Cock a Doodle Doo.

Slideshow movie that I prepared for that appearance.

Download the interview
here and the slideshow here.
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Remembering 1990

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Reflecting on the impact of 1990 in images. Read More...
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Instant obsolesence

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Slowly, Polaroid is going away, the immediacy of digital photography replacing the fast fading thrill of watching a colour photo appear after a minute of almost magical developing. Read More...
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Hosay in full swing

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Hosay is approaching its climax again this year. It's Flag Night tonight. Have a look at the photoessay I did on the Panchaiti camp last year here and there's a look behind the scenes at how it got put together here.
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La Fleur Morte

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These images are excerpts from a larger work that is in progress in which I examine the way that flowers, the reproductive organs of plants, deteriorate after they are picked and discarded.
The first two images were selected for display in the Art Society's November exhibition for 2007 and you can view an interview with Magella Moreau and Dennis McComie on the Gayelle Morning Show,
Cock a Doodle Doo here and download the interview here. If you're curious about the slideshow I put together for my appearance, you can find that download here and view it here.
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Another Lightroom speedup

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Speeding up Lightroom

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More thoughts about photojournalism

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Ariti Jankie called asking for some comments about the AMPOTT awards, no doubt looking for some quotes to beef up the kind of story the Express is likely to produce after sweeping the still photography category.
This is what I sent her, after initially thinking that I really had nothing more to say. Of course, what I proceeded to do was prattle on about photojournalism.
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AMPOTT Judges' Notes, 2007

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Comments offered on behalf of the panel of judges at AMPOTT's photo and video awards at Gaston Court, Chaguanas, on the evening of August 30, 2007. Read More...
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Gayelle TV interview

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Links and background to an interview with GayelleTV about digital photography and film can be found here. Read More...
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AMPOTT Judging

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The judges at work choosing the winning images at AMPOTT's 2007 photography competition. Read More...
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The Modern Eye

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Modern styles in photography can be exciting, but sometimes, I just don't get it... Read More...
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Alex Smailes & Carnival

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I wrote this as a section opener for Alex Smailes' photography book on Carnival. For various production and editorial reasons, all the section openers were scrapped and this never got published. Until now...
I've also written about Noel Norton
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Five Fingers

Five fingers, bittersweet fruit of salted rhapsody Read More...
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