KARSH

Here is a new site for one of Canada’s greatest photographic artists. Well worth the visit…
http://karsh.org/

Everything you need to know about photography …and life

Prepare yourself to be humbled as a photographer. As you know, I review hundreds of sites weekly and I post the best at my online book-marking site at http://del.icio.us/peterwestphoto
Today I was working my way through the bookmarks I came upon the site of travel photographer Frederic Courbet. To call this man a travel photographer is [...]

Great week of teaching

For those who don’t know, I’m teaching for Henry’s School of Imaging. If you are talking photos (and it doesn’t matter what camera) then I urge you to invest three hours in learning how to get the most out of your camera. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a point-and-shoot or a professional-quality digital SLR, Henry’s [...]

Expert musings

David Ziser’s blog Digital Pro Talk is one of my must-reads. Today’s comment is about what it takes to be great (as in a great photographer). Here’s the link:
http://digitalprotalk.blogspot.com/2008/03/whats-it-take-to-be-great.html
 

11 Must-See Pictures

http://www.adidap.com/2008/02/27/11-must-see-pictures/

The Cinnamon Effect

There’s a photographer on Flickr (the online photo sharing site) who is creating quite a stir. Her photos are both beautiful from a composition point of view and from a post-processing standpoint. Here are some links to her site and to a discussion site about her photos. She calls herself Cinnamon and her photos are [...]

New blog

Okay, it’s not a new blog but it’s new to me. My partner in teaching photography for Henry’s Cameras Mike Willems has a terrific blog at http://www.willems.ca/blog/. Among his other attributes, Michael wrote the very popular and well attended Travel Workshop for Henry’s.
Stay tuned for more exciting news from Michael and me (Sounds like a [...]

You meet the nicest people

I taught three classes last weekend for Henry’s Cameras. A few brave souls signed up for Nikon D40 parts 1 and 2 for a total of six hours of instruction. Even the most youthful looked beat by the end of the day. i tremble to think what I must have looked like by the end [...]