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A Hermetic View of What Makes An Image or Work of Art Great

January 16th, 2012 | Add a Comment

Yesterday I was in a conversation with my closest friend, Steve Danzig, about how art affects us. I put forward to him what makes a work of art or a photograph great and it got me really thinking about it. So in this post I want to explore that. For those who don’t know, Hermeticism is a philosophical system that has greatly influenced Western esoteric thought. For the last few weeks I have been totally absorbed, … Read entire article »

Filed under: Digital Fine Art, Photography

iPhoneography and MagCloud For Photographers

December 15th, 2011 | Add a Comment

As you might know, I blog for HP on their Professional Photography blog. My two recent posts have been: MagCloud and Publishing for Photographers covering my experience using MagCloud to produce the DIMi print edition and Why Apple’s iPhone Can Be a Fun, Useful Camera for Photography Pros covering my ideas on why we should embrace the iPhone even when we have far more sophisticated gear. Both articles are worth a read and I’d encourage you to read the other articles on … Read entire article »

Filed under: Cameras, iPhone, Photography

Experiments with the Jux Blogging Platform

December 15th, 2011 | 4 Comments

There’s a new blogging site in town, jux.com, and it is worth a look. Jux provides an interesting, new approach to blogging. I’ve started experimenting with it and you can see the results at digitalimagemaker.jux.com. What makes Jux interesting for photographers is the approach with images. The idea is to make them full screen or full window, so putting your images front and centre. My first post was to take some images of butterflies I had short in infrared … Read entire article »

Filed under: Digital Fine Art, Photography, Publishing

iPhone 4S – The Photographer’s Camera

October 4th, 2011 | Add a Comment

Photographers need to take pictures. It’s a practice thing. Like every skill, you need to practice. But that means having a camera with you all the time. The one thing pretty well everyone has with them all the time now is their mobile phone. The iPhone is a great platform for photography. Not only have the cameras been decent, by phone standards, but the app architecture nicely supports enhancements to your photography. The camera that you … Read entire article »

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Photography Competitions Are Good For More Than Prizes

July 13th, 2011 | Add a Comment

My latest article on the HP Professional Photography blog covers the real reasons why photography competitions are worth entering. … Read entire article »

Filed under: Business, Photography

The Dilemmas of Digital Image Making

July 10th, 2011 | Add a Comment

I must admit to being deeply conflicted as a digital image maker. I love the image making. But, and this is a big but, I really hate the physical stuff necessary to present my work, like printing and framing. Truly and profoundly hate it. Photographers and digital artists come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, for sure. Some like the chemical darkroom, some like the alternative processes, some adore the perfect lab print and others … Read entire article »

Filed under: Photography, Print

Infographic of the Day: Wayne’s Movements Courtesy of iPhone

April 20th, 2011 | Add a Comment

As you may have heard, the iPhone tracks your movements continuously and stores this info in a file on the iPhone that gets backed up to your computer by iTunes. It does this using the mobile phone tower triangulation that is used as a backup for and to speed up your GPS system. Below is a non-infographic (non because it really contains no useful info at all) I produced from this data in my iPhone using … Read entire article »

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iPhone Photography: Reinvigorating Some Photographers

March 17th, 2011 | Add a Comment

As I look around the web I see so many photographers, including serious, well-respected professional photographers, getting all excited about photography with their iPhones. What’s going on? Well, in the spirit of scientific investigation I have downloaded a bunch of photography apps for my iPhone and will start shooting with them and see for myself. What I think is going on is a combination of nostalgia for a simpler time in photography, a reappraisal of just how “perfect” an image needs to be effective and a wish to reconnect with personal photography in what are often busy professional shooting lives. Nostalgia in photography with a widespread thing. We see that in the passion for old photographic processes whose look can frankly be recreated far more easily and often in a more environmentally friendly … Read entire article »

Filed under: Cameras, Creativity, iPhone, Photography

Passionate Photography

January 3rd, 2011 | Add a Comment

My latest article on the HP Professional Photography blog is on passion, what it is, why it matters and how to find it. Passionate Photography article … Read entire article »

Filed under: Business, Creativity, Photography

2010 Considered

January 2nd, 2011 | Add a Comment

2010 was a mixed back year for me. Personally there were a lot of distractions associated with caring for my mother-in-law who sadly died on New Year’s Eve at 11:05pm. Her cancer caused much pain and other issues that often made life difficult for everyone in the house, and since I work from home it also affected my business life. But there were also great times and great laughter in caring for her and she was a wonderful woman who I loved dearly. Creatively, 2010 was a good year. I started my new series Time & Space and really feel like these images form a good, strong direction for me moving forward into 2011. I picked up a couple of minor awards, which was nice. I also published two books, an iPhone app … Read entire article »

Filed under: DIMI News, iPad, iPhone, Photography

160,000 Visitors and Counting

January 2nd, 2011 | Add a Comment

In 2010 we had over 160,000 visitors to the site, which considering all the distractions that 2010 had, was not too bad afterall. … Read entire article »

Filed under: DIMI News

Changing Educational Paradigms

November 18th, 2010 | Add a Comment

I came across an amazing video on Youtube. It is an animation done to a speech by Sir Ken Robinson. Now I had heard him speak before and can only say I agree fully with him about the complete stupidity of the way we educate our kids and even, since I’ve spent most of my life in adult education, the way we educate adults. It has a lot of relevance to those in the creative disciplines, since we suffer the most in conventional education. His book: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative is an amazing book and something every educator should read. A first class thinker and communicator. … Read entire article »

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Wayne Cosshall Picks Up Two Bronze Awards in the International Aperture Awards 2010

November 15th, 2010 | Add a Comment

I entered two images from my new, experimental series and picked up Bronze Awards for both of them. I was testing the waters with these as I’ve only been working on this series for the last few months and whilst feedback from photographers I knew was very positive I decided to use the Awards to do a wider test. This is a good way to use competitions and awards. … Read entire article »

Filed under: Competitions, Photography

The Photography Business, Part 11 Contemporary Art Photography as a Business

November 1st, 2010 | Add a Comment

The Photography Business, Part 11: Contemporary Art Photography as a Business is now up on the HP Pro Photography blog. It discusses how to approach contemporary art use of photography. … Read entire article »

Filed under: Digital Fine Art, Fine Art, Fine Art Photography, Photography

Photography Business Part 7 is Up

August 31st, 2010 | Add a Comment

Part 7 of my photography business series on the HP Professional Photography blog is now up. It covers turning services into products. … Read entire article »

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The Keys to getting the most out of photography and art study

June 23rd, 2010 | Add a Comment

Many students doing a photography or fine art study program fail completely to get out of it all they could. Here is how to improve on this. During the course of a semester of study, students are caught up in the tasks of note taking and doing projects/assignments. This dominates all thinking: the looming deadlines and examinations (if the course has them). This keeps their focus on doing what has to be done and not on drawing personal insights from the work they are doing. One way to overcome this is for the student to take the opportunity of the breaks and holidays to sit down with their visual diaries and assignments and reflect on the work they have done, what they have learning and what they want to pursue from there. … Read entire article »

Filed under: Digital Fine Art, Education, Fine Art, Fine Art Photography, Photography

Android Looking More Like a Good Platform to Develop For (or Has Apple Crossed to the Darkside)

May 20th, 2010 | Add a Comment

An article from today on Fast Company presents some really interesting information about smart phone takeup rates and market penetration, so I recommend you go to the article and look it over. It has me thinking about many things to do with the iPhone and iPad. What it shows is that while smart phones are still a small 19% of the total phone market, Android-based smart phones are doing very well in the market. Specifically, since third quarter 2009 the % of smartphones that use the Android platform has been rising smartly at exactly the same time that the % of smart phones from RIM (Blackberry) and Apple have dropped. Of course that does not mean that their overall numbers have dropped, or even stopped growing, but rather that as a … Read entire article »

Filed under: Apple Mac, Communications, Computer, Consumer, iPad, Uncategorized, Web

Photography Business Series, Part 2

May 19th, 2010 | Add a Comment

Part 2 of my photography business series is now up on the HP Professional Photography blog. It is on the topic of Time Management. … Read entire article »

Filed under: Business, Photography, Uncategorized

Making Images is Good for Your Health

December 23rd, 2009 | 3 Comments

For us creative types there is a real compulsion to create. Exercising our creativity is also a key to maintaining our balance and harmony. … Read entire article »

Filed under: Cameras, Creativity, dSLR, Infrared, Landscape Photography, Lens, Lensbaby, Photography

The Rural Landscape Through Infrared Photography

December 20th, 2009 | 11 Comments

Here is an assortment of landscape images I shot recently on my converted 350D. … Read entire article »

Filed under: Cameras, dSLR, Infrared, Landscape Photography, Photography