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Photography is my creative passion and outlet. Some of my earliest memories are of the bathroom being converted on some weekends into a darkroom, standing next to my Dad, images slowly emerging on the paper by their chemical magic. Years later I did quite a bit of darkroom time myself - for work, class and self.
Around high-school I was passed down some Pentax kit, which grew over the next decade alongside my growing skills. Then along came digital. At first it was a real ugly duckling, with VGA and saving to 3.5" diskette. The megapixel wars soon raised the bar though, and by 2003 I moved from 2 and 3 mpx compacts to a Canon dSLR, a 10D with all of 6 mpx.
Two decades and several bodies later, we are at much higher megapixels and cameras far more capable.
To keep things under control I keep only a tiny set of images here online. Please do explore, the links are all in the multi-level menu. I've also cut the galleries off at 2020.
If you are in New Zealand and would like to buy one or more of my images as prints or canvas, please contact me. Details can be found at the bottom of this page. Unfortunately shipping to outside of NZ is an expensive exercise.
Most people don't think about this too much, that every image they see has an aspect ratio, the proportion of width to height. Cameras and photo prints also have these proportions, and often they don't match up as people expect. 35mm film (36×24mm) and its digital successors have a 3:2 ratio. Many digital cameras are 5:4 or 4:3 instead of the more traditional 3:2. The old glass-plate cameras like Ansel Adams used are 8×10" and later 'smaller' medium format sizes were 6×7" (Mamiya RB 67), 4×5", or 6×4½" which led to the naming of the Pentax 645… - being a 4:3 ratio, commonly found in projectors for presentations to this day.
Many of these sizes are still reflected in the frames you can buy at your local store anywhere in the world: 8×10, 5×7, or 11×14. Often they will nowadays show a decimal equivalent like 20x25cm for 8x10". Obviously, print lab sizes follow the frame sizes.
What 'bites' is when you try to print a 3:2 photo onto 8×10" (5:4). Things or people near the edges get cut off. You can then:
The latest crop of 'AI' tools make it possible to expand a canvas by a process called 'outpainting', but be aware that what you upload feeds the database and your image is now part opf the collective (Borg reference).