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POTD: Weekend worshippers at the temple of retail
Weekend worshippers at the temple of retail. Olympus E-PM1 Pen Mini, 45/1.8 Who says the economy is bad? Our (already high as a per capita basis) shopping malls are always packed to the gills on...
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Photoessay: Hong Kong life in monochrome
The first set from my recent Hong Kong and Macau workshop. Click for larger versions or EXIF data via the flickr landing page. Enjoy! MT Images shot with a Leica M9-P, Zeiss ZM 2.8/28 Biogon, ZM 2/50...
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Photoessay: Macau, part one
Part one from Macau; immediately post-typhoon and still very, very rainy, not to mention humid. This set was shot with an Olympus OM-D, 45/1.8 and Panasonic 20/1.7 lenses. Images can be clicked on for...
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Photoessay: Macau, part two
A continuation of the set from Macau. Shot in the tail end of a typhoon with a Leica M9-P, Zeiss ZM 2.8/28 Biogon and ZM 2/50 Planar lenses. MT ____________ Enter the August 2012 competition: Compact...
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Photoessay: Kowloon in color
Shot on a particularly rainy night in Kowloon, post-typhoon with a Leica M9-P and Zeiss ZM 28/2.8. Surprisingly, both functioned fine despite the moisture and humidity. I must be one of the few strange...
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Photoessay: Vignettes from a Sudanese wedding
Recently, I was a guest at a rather interesting (and crazy) wedding celebration – a close Sudanese family friend’s daughter. Needless to say, I brought a camera – the OM-D and 45/1.8 – but to use...
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Photoessay: Small format Fukuokan monochromes
Most of these are square because I was under the influence of Hasselblad at the time; with your primary camera set up to shoot black and white squares, it’s difficult to break your shooting rhythm to...
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Photoessay: New York City street colour
Today’s photoessay is a set of images shot with the Nikon Coolpix A on the streets of New York City during my earlier workshop trip this year. NYC on a blue sky spring day is seriously difficult to...
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FD Photoessay: Life in Amsterdam
Sometimes, the film photography gods deign to make life easy for you: you happen to be in the right place at the right time, with the right light, interesting subjects, lots of opportunities, carrying...
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Photoessay: Signs of life: shadows and silhouettes in Prague
And now for something a little different – what if I took the abstraction of man to the next logical step? The idea of a person, not the specific individual? What interests me is the way man interacts...
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Photoessay: The people of Taipei
An obsession with things on sticks, I Whenever I travel, I find the people more interesting than the location: they give a place character, and say a lot about the local culture. It is therefore...
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Photoessay: People of Cuba, part II
Soldiers, I. Apparently you are not supposed to photograph them, or secure installations. When faced with this kind of challenge I invariably have to get an image… Today’s photoessay is the...
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Photoessay: Mono street photography from Singapore
Shadows Contrary to popular belief, I don’t shoot that much street photography by either time or output; it just appears that way because a lot of the work I do can’t be published for some time (or at...
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Photoessay: Observations of Londoners in summer
The watcher. For what feels like no more than a couple of days a year, the entire mood of London changes as the sun comes out and puts (most of) the population in a good mood – it’s as though the...
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Photoessay: Singapore color
Singapore: a neatly organized life Today’s photoessay has no theme beyond the observation of life as a flaneur in Singapore; in this case during in-between time from a teaching assignment a couple of...
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Photoessay: people of Prague, I
The slight oppressiveness that is impossible to define Let’s call this set a mix of environmental portraiture and street photography. People in their native element with minimal interference on the...
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Photoessay: people of Prague, II
Do we fear what we cannot see? Part two of the People of Prague photoessay is to me the more exciting bit: it expands the more literal ‘people in sauce’ environmental slices of the previous series of...
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Photoessay: People of Venice
A touch of longing Today’s photoessay is perhaps best thought of a series of vignettes of the locals living in Venice – there may be one or two tourists that got caught in the mix, but I doubt most of...
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Photoessay: observations in Hong Kong
Everybody is a tourist sometimes Today’s images are a series of observations of people shot in Hong Kong – it’s not quite the traditionally expected street photography, though neither is it my more...
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Photoessay: Monochrome life in Venice
Venice in winter is grey, with occasional Canaletto skies when the clear window happens to coincide with sunset. But for the most part, light is meagre but nicely angled. Life continues as normal for...
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