Some of the most hilarious and inspiring photographs I have seen in a while are a cool set of photos by Canadian Illustrator, photographer and obvious Star Wars fanatic Chris McVeigh. The picture set is called Star Wars figures and chipmunks and when I surfed into the images earlier today I was having a really bad day and before I knew it I was chuckling away at the computer screen while viewing these pictures.
A Storm trooper riding a Chipmunk
I am sure they will have you giggling too. I like this style of comical photography that is much more than a posed studio set up, one of a gazllion portraits or a famous landmark that has had so many pictures taken of it from every concievable angle. I hope to be able to try something like this one day. read more…
Last Sunday (31st of May, 2009) there was another linkup with my friends from the Jamaica group on Flickr. Our trip took us to many locations including the Spanish Town Iron Bridge, Rio Cobre Dam, Flat Bridge, Walkers Wood, Lyme In and White River. I have already started to upload a few of my avourite shots from the day to Flickr and I will be uploading more over the next few days. Check out a few below.
Fisherman on Flat Bridge
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The Flickr group that I have been mostly active in and learned the most from is the Jamaica, West Indies group. At the beginning of the year we started a project to have members participating more in the group. Each month we decide on a theme to snap pictures for and this month’s theme was “Light Source” and the aim was to use a traditional or nontraditional light source to creatively create an image and share it with the group.
I am the darkness
We had 12 entries, mine being the one above where I used a flashlight in pitch black conditions to light half of my face. It is now my background picture at work. Two of my favorite entries are viewable below. read more…
Charlene Collins is an excellent photograper who I met on the first Flickr linkup and outing to Portland back in October last year. She has impressed and inspired me since with he love of photography. I always check her photostream to see what kinds of new photographs she will upload and her leadership in the group has been phenomenal.
Charlene has been deservedly featured on a local website called Yawdchat in which she talks about he love for photography, favorite subjects to shoot and much more. read more…
The new logo was the first step to a complete overhaul, update and re-imagination of my photoblog. I’m like to think that I have grown a bit in the year and a half since I got my can and took up photography as a serious hobby. I am still am amateur but I think I have graduated from the photography newbie title. It was nostalgic looking over some of the 50+ posts I’ve made on this blog over the past 18 months and I am even more excited about what the future will bring for my photography and this blog.
It’s been a long time since I unpacked my camera and snapped this picture
My first blog at Jamaipanese.com has always gotten the majority of my blogging time and energy but I am looking forward to putting more effort and time into my blog posts here while using the experienced gained from blogging there. It will take a while for me to grow the readership here but I am up for the challenge. I look forward to fousing on posts sharing my information of my experience taking photographs as well as to share what I have learned so far with others. I look forward to the continued support of the few readers I have so far as well as appealing to and gaining a growing audience for my potography and blog posts. read more…
I have very limited sill related to graphic designing but over the past week or so I have been working on a new logo that will used to watermark a few photographs if necessary as well as be in the header of my soon to be redesigned blog and maybe even business cards and stickers.
White version above and blac version after the jump. read more…
With the knowledge I have been building up over the past two years and the long time interest I have had in photography it’s becoming hard to introduce myself a a newbie to photography anymore. I am years away from even considering going pro and I don’t make any money at all from photography so I am not even semipro. It’s time I star making steps to move up from being am amateur.
I still can’t afford or justify the expenditure (especially in these economic times) on a DSLR camera although I want one so badly but I can make he most of he very capable camera I have now. I’ve been thinking long on hard on the way to move forward and the list belwo is some of the things I need to work towards achieving. read more…
Below are two pictures from a set of pictures I took at Turtle Bay in Portland Jamaica on the last Flickr linkup outing.
I tried to capture all the rocks and make them the feature in this shot
Sky, Sea and the Turtle shell shaped rock is captured here
I plan to give this blog a overall in the coming weeks so look out for that soon.
Almost 2 months after the last linkup to Robin’s Bay the Flickr crew from Jamaica again met up and this time the main attraction was Turtle Bay in Portland. All together it was a good link-up with a big group and lots of new faces. My experimentation with photography continues and I will be updating my Flickr page with images everyday for the next few days. Below are a couple I have uploaded so far.
Children at play on the beach at a nice little cookshop we stopped for
some excellent seafood that was unbeleiveably affordable
View of Kingston from inside St Thomas
Wind, water and the power they generate always facinates me
Recently I started collecting anime figures. The two I have so far are Gundam plastic figurines or “Gunpla” that I had to put together from plastic pieces. While putting these figures together and taking pictures of them to post on Jamaipanese.com I realise how much fun I’ve been having, experiementing with natural light, artificial light, shadows, focus, shutter speads and aperture.
Tabletop photography is now an interest and I will be looking to invest into some lights, backgrounds and other equipment when the finances allow.
Check out the newly created Anime Figures and Toys set of my Flickr page.
