Back in China, and increasingly fascinated with the contrast between modern and old, and the way that they fit together. I just left the town of Leshan in Sichuan, a couple of hours drive south of the capital Chengdu. It’s famous for having the world’s largest Buddha, 71 metres tall, built between 713 CE...
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Posts Tagged ‘ Tea-Horse Route ’
10/04/10
More on Processing
Last month I looked at alternatives to caffeinated HDR processing as ways of handling a wide dynamic range — and a bracketed sequence of exposures. Since then, I’ve had occasion to put these into practice as my assistant and I prepare the images for my new book on the Tea-Horse Road, shot largely in...
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13/01/2010
Oh… I only just realised that I’ve ignored this part of the site for a long time. Maybe this is why I find Twitter impossible (quite apart from never being able to say anything in just a couple of lines)
It’s not as if I didn’t have anything to write about, either. On Saturday I...
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10/06/09
One of the things I love about photography is the sheer variety, and the freedom to explore all kinds of ways, and reasons, for shooting. I’m constantly surprised, and delighted, at fresh ways of seeing, and fresh definitions of what is worth seeing. There was a time when photography was more-or-less neatly compartmentalised into...
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