A new oversized collection of portraits done for the new online magazine Outlish.com, featuring young adults making their mark in Trinidad and Tobago, is posted here...

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Kenisha Thom sits, or to be more accurate, stands for a Womanwise portrait session. Background notes on it are here...

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BitDepth 726, a longer view perspective on the surge in interest in photography, is posted here...
The original Facebook discussion on the subject is excerpted here...

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Carnival Tuesday
Dimanche Gras, Kings and Queens
Dimanche Gras, Calypso Monarch competition
Canboulay Re-enactment, 2010
T&T Jazz Festival, Jazz Alliance
Jazz Artists on the Greens, 2010

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BitDepth 722, a reminiscing over the 20 years that Photoshop has been with us, is posted here...

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An expanded gallery of Local Lives 11, a photoessay about the J'Ouvert band Chocolate City, is posted here. A downloadable PDF of the story as it appeared in the Guardian's Carnival souvenir is available here. Curious about how Local lives gets done? There's also a vidcast on the the download page.

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The backstory on 'A Gift of the Past,' in Caribbean Beat's January-February issue, about a collection of my father's old negatives and the history of Carnival that they revealed, is posted here... The text from that story is posted here...

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New presentation on how Local Lives gets put together is posted to the presentations page...

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Photographing a kidnapping victim on the very first day of the year proves to be the kind of challenge that makes photojournalism really interesting.

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BitDepth 712, a look at Adobe Photoshop Lightroom's third public beta test is here...

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In the 23 years since Giselle La Ronde-West won the Miss World title, I have never once photographed her. Womanwise gives me my first shot at an ageless beauty.

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Diamonds are forever, or at the very least, last Sunday, lack of credit for the work notwithstanding. Read the behind the shoot story here...

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Photographer's notes on a session with veteran model Lystra Cudjoe are posted here...

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A videocast of a presentation covering my career to date prepared for St Joseph's Convent students and the bpTT photography club is posted here...

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Interested in the photos I've been doing for Womanwise? There's now a virtual gallery of the work available here. It's made for big screens, I'm afraid.

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The wonderful world of Mystie. Behind the Womanwise shoot.

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Photo session number 13 turns out to be an encounter with a former Wilhelmina model. I laugh at your reputation for bad luck! Hahahahaha! Oh, and the photographer's notes are here...

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Planning for a pregnant Destra takes some forethought and some strategy. Here's how I tackled the challenge.

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Throwing my voice into an interesting web conversation that's being stimulated by two e-books written by David duChemin with this post...

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Photographer's notes on a tragedy of errors that scuttled a strong effort at delivering a good Womanwise cover in challenging circumstances are posted here...

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Photography notes on my session with music producer and talent manager Carolyn Pasea for the Sunday Guardian's Womanwise magazine are posted here...

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My photo essay on the Bal Ramdilla, a learning experience at the Hindu Prachar Kendra that involves children in the writing, directing and performance of the epic Ramleela is archived online here as a downloadable PDF.
You can view an expanded online gallery of images from the shoot here. If you just want to read the text, that's to be found here...
Background notes and technical information about the project has been added here...
Derek Walcott's 1992 Nobel Lecture, which meditates on a Ramleela in Felicity, is here...

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The Tourism Development Company launched its Divali photography competition for amateurs. I took issue with one of the terms. Five hours later, the company graciously amended a critical parameter of the competition.
The original post on the matter, sent via e-mail and posted as a Facebook note was also posted here...
I've extracted all the responses that came via Facebook comment threads, e-mailed responses and web comments here...
To put some context on this, I've added a post about my own experiences as a content creator with various incarnations of the local tourism company here...

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Photographer's notes on a cover shoot with Allison Demas and her daughter Aisha for Womanwise are posted here...

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Photography notes on my photo session with Wendy Fitzwilliam and her son at her home are posted here...

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Photographer's notes on my photo shoot with UWI lecturer Dr Patricia Mohammed are posted here...

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BitDepth#696, a look at Peter Krogh's updated edition of his seminal book on digital asset management is posted here...

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BitDepth 668, musings about the ways that technology has changed my photographic approach to Carnival is posted here...

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The Viey La Cou series is now live in the Virtual Gallery. A behind the scenes account of the 1989 shoot is posted in my photo blog.
The GayelleTV gallery formerly in my portfolio has been revisited, re-edited and is now posted in Virtual Gallery format in that section.

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Notes on what happens when you press two of Canon's ETTL strobes with wireless sync into service in the middle of the St James Hosay celebrations.

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The Viey La Cou series, portraits of traditional Carnival characters that I shot at that celebration in the early 80's, will begin on Friday.

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Background notes and reminiscing on a favorite photo of The Mighty Duke, Kelvin Pope...

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After almost a full week of hacking my lungs up and blowing my sinuses into a rather vast assortment of tissues, I've finally mustered the energy to begin posting to the site again.
Fortunately, I'm working from copious notes from the show floor at PhotoPlus Expo 2008, so the assortment of drugs and remedies I've been ingesting hasn't quite succeeded in wiping my brain pan clean of what I encountered over the three days of Expo.

Herewith, a roundup of all the new postings to the site...
BitDepth 651 covers a panel at PhotoPlus on the way Microstock has changed the face of not just stock photography sales but the profile of contributors.
There are additional notes from that panel posted to my Photo Blog here.
BitDepth 652 covers the panel of winners of this year's All Roads Project. Just one of the winners was able to make it, and his story is a remarkable one.
Day One of my PhotoPlus expo blog coverage covers the hunt for a new sling bag.

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The next installment of BitDepth (October 28) will be a report on highlights from this year's PhotoPlus Expo, but from Thursday evening, I'll be blogging my findings and notes from the show floor of the PhotoPlus Expo 2008 at the Jacob Javits Centre in New York for the duration of the three days of the show.
You'll find that coverage posted on my photoblog here...

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BitDepth #647 a look at the Jill Greenberg - John McCain situation is posted here...

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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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Notes about fundraising events for the photographer Jeffrey Chock. Read More...

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Trinidad Dreamscape freaks out after finding out that Noel Norton is shooting with a digital camera.

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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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Notes about the philosophy of shooting tethered are posted here...

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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.

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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RBTT becoming RBC provokes some interesting memories. Read More...

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A new Photo Blog posting is available on the real cost of digital images...

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The stock photography galleries have been revamped significantly. The collection is far from complete, but images will be updated over the next few weeks. View the samples that are available right now here...

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Decided to move my ruminations about photography to a new blog. The first few entries consolidate information about my photojournalism projects and contemplate an egg. Read more here...

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You could just scan a photo or you could digitize your analog images with the utmost fidelity. Read more here.

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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 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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Click on each photo to see an enlarged detail.
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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Michael Tapes offers a down-to-earth tutorial series on working with RAW files, Read More...

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Macintosh
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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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Just to give context to what we've been trying to do with the AMPOTT Awards, these are the Judges' notes for the first competition I worked on. These were the remarks at the awards ceremony on August 08, 2005 Read More...

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

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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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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 here... Read More...

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

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