Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God..

– Christopher Hitchens

This image is from most recent trip to Cuba.

Sorry it’s been a minute since I last posted. Things in Los Angeles have been taking my attention away from posting and post processing my images- Then I went Cuba. Then I came back 0n the 6th. Then I had to put my entire studio back together from prepping to bug out from the fires

That said…

CATS!!!!!!! I LOVE CATS!!!!!!!! OK correction to the last post- I could make a career of photographing skies, sunsets and CATS!!!! And to get a cat basking in good light….. I treat light when I conceptualize an image as if it is as solid of an object as the subject that is interrupting my beautiful light. What more is there to the life of a photographer? Life is too short to shoot in bad light and to DRINK bad coffee and cheap wine.

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. 1/500 of a second ISO 220. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing

– George Bernard Shaw

From my three weeks in Namibia—

I have a job that is more fun than fun. We pulled off to a village in the middle of the day because it was to hot to be out in a boat in the middle of the day and the animals were doing the smart thing, tapping in the shat in jungle. The village’s name translates to

The place of good teeth” I wrote that down because I could not figure out how to to spell the actual name. As I was bubbling around photographing a chicken clucking about with the chicken having nothing to about me try to photographer. As I looked up I saw this young girl and she saw me. It is the moment wy we both connected at that the pict her took itself. again back the discussion of the last post, for me the best photographs are the ones that feel as if we are in the space between a moment. Traveling to next but not there yet. Leaving the moment we were in yet not completely gone from it.

Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

I shot this with the Z6III 135mm S Nikkor f 1.8 plena wide open. The Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes

—Paulo Coelho

From my three weeks in Namibia—

There is the self we show the world and the self we hide from the world. The goal I find is to have the subject of your image choose to hide in the camera. When that happens we see the actual “who” of the person is, not the “what” of what they are they choose to show.

Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

I shot this with the Z6III 135mm S Nikkor f 1.8 plena wide open. The Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

-Edith Wharton

From my three weeks in Namibia—

Another from the “how how close did you get?” collection

This close. Again about 10-12 feet. This is at 140mm on the 100-400mm S Nikkor. If I got any closer… This is as the sun was setting. Hence the beautiful light. Which the subject, in this case the male lion, was interrupting

The system in which I came up with to not have to bring a laptop and be able to back all my images up with my ipad. Worked swimmingly. I shot on Delkin black 850 & 150gb cards. Which is the key to all of this fast read and fast downloads. I brought three 4tb Sandisk Blade drives. I used the Lexar WorkflowGo2. I was very hesitant to buy anything Lexar. I have had less than stellar luck with their cards. That said the workflowGo did the job.

This is one of a bazillion Lion captures I have. I have images of Lions, Leopards, Cheetahs, Caracals, Elephants, Hippos, Rhinos, Water Buffalo, Wildebeests, two types of Baboons, two types of Zebra, Brown Hyenas, Wild Dogs, Warthogs, Oryx, Mongoose, Read Heart beast, Springbok, Sable, Eland, Black Faced Impala, Impala, Crocodiles, Kudo, Waterbuck, Dik-Dik (so I did take Dik-Dik pics), Steenbok,Scrub Hare, Rock Hyrax, Side Winder snakes, African Ground Squirrels, Cape Penguin and so many birds I can’t even begin to name them and those are just the animals I can remember.

AND to answer the next question YES I will be organizing a workshop there.

Shot with the Nikon Z6II using the 100- 400mm S lens no 1.4 Tele converter attached. Post processed wit NX Studio and Photoshop CC Beta.and DxO’s NiK collection plug-ins.

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I spent the day at Jay Maisel's studio to smoke cigars and tell lies and more importantly laughing our asses off.

We also had Katz's Pastrami (Jay's favorite thing to eat)and Russ & Daughters. (my favorite thing to eat) for lunch.

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Not all those who wander are lost.

— J.R.R. Tolkin

From my three weeks in Namibia—

I am by practice a wonderer. I am enamored not just having one disciple of artistic pursuit. I wand to be adept at as many of them as my time on this mortal coil allows me.

Astral or “night sky” photography has always been something I try to think of anything else to do before that. In North America there are too many obstacles, light pollution, traveling to really really isolated places and having to get up a 3am stabling around in the dark.

Then there is trying to get light (light painting) on the terrestrial part of the image.

All of those issues went away in Namibia. This image is two exposures. One of the sand dune at sunset and one right after the sun has set.

I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”

I shot this with the Z6III 50mm S Nikkor f1.2. The dune at 1/5000 of a second at f1.8 ISO 200 and the star field at 10sec at f1.8 ISO 5000. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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I have been chomping at the bit to be able to talk about one of the new features in the Z8 3.0 firmware update. Specifically the ability to do a pixel shift / focus shift series of captures. Wow…… the color fidelity, and incredible detail is mind boggling but having your cake and eat it too with being able to mix wide ope with critical aperture for the sharpest and creamiest Bokeh again Wow…..

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I shot this image whilst on assignment for American Photo Magazine to shoot and write an article about the opening up of Myanmar. I have no idea where this is, other than somewhere between here and there in Myanmar. The big issue, at least for me when on assignment is you stop producing "product" when the editor or art director says "we're good" there are always more images that are great but do not fit the direction of the story and there is just so many hours in a day, and when you get "it's a wrap" you are off to the next gig. It's nice to take pause and se what is there that you saw but did not "see" for the purpose of the story.. D3x and the 24-120mm lens. This is the image in Chromatic Grayscale.

This is another from the review process of my server and and trying get to all the files I have decided to work on during the first edit but have never gotten to. Usually the amount of time I have to do any post on a gig is the flight back home and maybe there days after I hit stateside before the next adventure takes me. I decided to take this summer to try and catch up on images I have always wanted to process.

Image was post processed with Capture NXD, Photoshop CC 2017, Nik collection by Google and onOnesoftware. Converted with the Oz 2 Kansas BW conversion.

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When I was a kid my father would tell me stories about being akid growing up in New York City. So everytime I go to NYC I always make it a point to find the echo of his memories still living in the city.

This is an image of the News Building that I shot through the glass on my one and only day. off (so far) from the Feature film shoot I am the Stills/Set photographer for, Pinball.

I shot this whilst spending the day with Jimmy AtoZ (my new associate photographer in my classes) and Aymen Siam, who I mentor as part of the NYSalt program. Jimmy is a NYC native and well took me to some of the echo of New York places I only occasionally stumble upon. I call this the "dailey Planet" 'cuz everyone knows Gotham City is Ian NewellYork City...Sheeesh

This image was capture using Kolari Vision's new in batonet mount filter system for IR. This is the 720mn filter. I have to say I am more than impressed

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I am not interested in shooting new things – I am interested to see things new.

— Ernst Haas

More from “Making up for lost time. A lot of what I have shot since March I cannot show for a bit.” collection

When have a camera in my hand, viewfinder up to my eye, I get lost in the flow in the moment. When I come back and look at what was the taken moment. I get to get lost again.

Cannot say the enough- A still photograph is called a still photograph because the picture does not move. Not because the subject of the picture is not in motion.

I shot this with the Nikon Z8 and the 85mm f1.2 Nikkor S. Raw file processed in NX Studio NiK collection Silver Efex Pro v7 in Photoshop beta.

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The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our sense to grow sharper.

- Bertrand Russell

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

Sorry it’s been a minute since I last posted. Things in Los Angeles have been taking my attention away from posting images. Then I went Cuba. Then I came back 0n the 6th. Then I had to put my entire studio back together from prepping to bug out

That said…

For this last trip I gave myself the self assignment limitation of only used one lens and one camera no IR. The lens was the 28-400 and the camera was the Z6III.

This image has been plaguing me since I saw this street. I have looked at the street for 15 years drove by it, walked by it looked at it, never saw it. Then BOOM. Soooo… I asked my favorite Ballerina Kamila Quinones to dance for me. It is always a joy to see her get lost in the dance.

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. 3D tracking 1/500 of a second ISO 500. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection. YES it is a composite, YES I used photoshop YES it is eight shots YES it happened in about 30 minutes. The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

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"We live forward, but understand life backwards"

-Soren Kierkegaard

I have tried for 15 years to get this shot. It seems like a simple shot. But I wanted it to be organic, not set up, the right light, the right amount of real wear blah, blah blah....

So I got the shot. I have mentioned how bittersweet this trip was. Over the 15 years I have gotten to know members of the Cuban Olypic boxing team. They are of the group of people I look forwad to seeing and hanging with in Cuba. But the Pandemic had other plans for them. They all left Havana to go back to the towns they came from to be and help with family. It''s not that they chose to lay down their boxing gloves perse, they had to put them aside for a while.

(from my last trip to Cuba with Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Cuba workshop)

There is a powerful advantage to a camera that can focus at the speed of life and that is more silent than a breath held expectant. You can truly create a place when the spirt of the subject can hide in your camera

There is no camera system that has a better or more powerful one. This image was was shot using highlight center metering.

Shot with the AMAZING Z9. The Z9 is more camera than I am photographer.

The BW Version.

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This seemingly gravity defying shot is another taken during the recent #Nikon100 London #Nikonmeetups.

Having been selected as one of 100 photographers to take part in the Nikon Centenary celebrations the day involved five seperate themed shoots around different locations in London. All in all it was a superbly organised event and I captured a wide variety of shots, my favourite of which I'll upload over the new few days.

This shot is a black and white version of one of my favourites from the Action Photography workshop with Tom Miles ( www.tmphoto.co.uk/ ) and three parkour experts.

Click here to see my other shots from the days workshops : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157686756184653

From Wikipedia : "Parkour (French pronunciation: ​[paʁkuʁ]) is a training discipline using movement that developed from military obstacle course training. Practitioners aim to get from one point to another in a complex environment, without assistive equipment and in the fastest and most efficient way possible. Parkour includes running, climbing, swinging, vaulting, jumping, rolling, quadrupedal movement, and other movements as deemed most suitable for the situation. Parkour's development from military training gives it some aspects of a non-combative martial art.

Parkour is an activity that can be practised alone or with others and is usually—but not exclusively—carried out in urban spaces. Parkour involves seeing one's environment in a new way, and imagining the potential for navigating it by movement around, across, through, over and under its features.

Parkour was developed in France, primarily by Raymond Belle, and further by his son David and the latter's group of friends, the self-styled Yamakasi, during the late 1980s. The discipline was popularised in the late 1990s and 2000s through films, documentaries, and advertisements featuring the Yamakasi."

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A portrait of Andrea, one of two models for the #Nikon100 London #Meetups fashion shoot at a fabulous location in West London ( www.shootfactory.co.uk/uk-locations/randolph-london-w9/ ).

I've photographed a few models before but the attention to detail for this shoot made taking great photos very easy.........

Having been selected as one of 100 photographers to take part in the Nikon Centenary celebrations the day involved five seperate themed shoots around different locations in London. All in all it was a superbly organised event and I captured a wide variety of shots, some in genres I've not much experience.

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The lioness is not submissive. She merely lets you be king for as long as it pleases her.

- Tiffany Hines

From my three weeks in Namibia—

The the lion was beat, tired and spent. The Lioness wanted to go around the dance floor one more time.

I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”

I have wanted to travel to Namibia for over 40 years. It all started with the second CD I ever purchased Sanford Ponder’s Etoshia” In the Land of Dry Water.

AND to answer the next question YES I will be organizing a workshop there.

Shot with the Nikon Z8 modified to shoot infrared conversion by Kolarivision using the 24-120mm S lens, Post processed with NX Studio and Photoshop CC Beta.and DxO’s NiK collection plug-ins.

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From My latest trip to Cuba

Every artist has an instrument. From the self-evident interments that musicians play, to painters who instrument is canvas, paint and brush and dancers who's instrument is their body.

All creativity comes from the same place. We just choose the metaphor and instrument we choose to express our momentary lapses from reason to express the moments we feel in a way other can experience the way we did.

The instrument a photographer has in the camera, the lens is its brush and the file created by the sensor is the canvas.

This a moment that took me photographing the dancer Maripaz Laguna being taken by the dance.

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The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.

—Jay Maisel

From my three weeks in Namibia—

There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have. You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.The composition is already there, you just need to frame it

Photography is an act of love. When I shoot I fall in love thousands a time in a day. I do not believe in long exposures and and long relationships.

Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back..

I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”

I have wanted to travel to Namibia for over 40 years. It all started with the second CD I ever purchased Sanford Ponder’s Etoshia” In the Land of Dry Water.

AND to answer the next question YES I will be organizing a workshop there.

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. mage raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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For those of us who believe in physics, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion

– Albert Einstein

This image is from a trip to Cuba I took in December of 2016.

I am working on images for my solo show of my images of Cuba that will happen sometime end of this year beginning of next at the Museo National Bellas Artes in Havana Cuba (the National Museum of Fine Art) I have been going through all of the 500,000 give or take frames I have shot so far.

The concept behind this project is to photograph the echos of the past that are still present today. What makes Cuba unique, almost wholly unique, is the it is caught in a bubble of 1962. I have several ongoing projects to capture the echo of Myanmar, India, Paris and New York City. Of all of these projects Cuba and Myanmar are the most complete.

Light, gesture and color are the three key elements of any image, with gesture being the most important consideration. In addition to these three ememnts there is a fourth concept- time, specifically timelessness. A successful image is one where gesture is served but the “when” is not definable.

I shot this with the D500 NIKKOR 18-300mm f/3.5-5.6G lens. 20 plus year project is 1/400 of a second ISO 100. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.

— Ram Dass

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

Shadow is as important to an image as light. Because no mater how you slice it, (and yes I have said and will say this repeatedly) Light is the jewel of the photograph. What would you rather look at- the Taj Mahal poorly lit or a wall of a building on a street with peeling paint and a rusty chair beautifully lit?

Light should always be treated as if it is as solid as the subject of the photograph is. The subject should always be approached as if it is interrupting the beautiful light. Light should never be just an after thought. It is really the only thought.

I shot this with the 24-200 Nikkor lens f4-6.3. 1/250 of a second ISO 200. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

— Nicole Kidman

From my three weeks in Namibia—

At the risk of ticking off a lot of my peers who sell tutorials on how to pose a subject….

As religious as I am about never cropping in post a photograph, I never ever pose a subject in my photographs. I find how to pose tutorials to good money poorly spent.

Are there things to know whilst shooting a portrait? Yes there are some things to pay attention to when photographing a subject that breathes. For example the positioning of a hand so the wrist doesn’t look broken, IF you put a hand in a pocket let the thumb be on the outside so the hand does not look like it’s cut off, avoid shooting people directly straight on because it makes everyone look like a football player.

It will always come down to this: in absolute spontaneity you get absolute truth. You can only be one way when you are being spontaneous and that is truthful.

Nothing I am going to ask of a subject will be more natural and organic than what the subject of the image will choose to do. The reason is simple: they know their body better than I do.

I think it is down right silly some of the awkward posing that I see in images hands wrapped around in uncomfortable positions with wrist broken etc. Just because something looks “weird” does not make it art. It just means it looks weird.

Are there times when “posing” makes sense? Yes. But that will always be the exception, not the rule.

For example not one of the images in this series from Namibia is posed. I did not ask the lion. Lioness, Kudu, Cheetah, Rhino, Elephant, Leopard, Giraffe, Springbok etc. to pose.

And yet...

Just sayin’

I shot this with the Z6III 100-400 S Nikkor with a 1.4 extender. The dune at 1/5000 of Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

From my three weeks in Namibia—

There is a Hassidic saying “sorry is the rabbi who is not will to teach the lesson 101 times” I once asked my master acting teacher, Tad Z. Danielewsk about how he teaches. He said “I treat knowledge like a bucket of mud and students like brick walls. I sling the mud at the wall and what sticks, sticks and what doesn’t doesn’t . At the end of the day f class I collect the mud tat didn’t stick and start throwing it again the time we have class. All I ask is that you don’t dodge the mud.

What I have learned over the years teaching photography is you have to throw a lot of the same mud repeatedly. Why sticks sticks and eventually if you repeat yourself enough the moment of epiphany will eventually happen. Why I say this (I have said this a lot)-

I photograph my portraits as if they are landscapes and my landscapes as if they are portraits. Each form contains the important aspects needed for the other.

(I have said this a lot too-)\

Light, gesture, color are the key elements of every photograph. But when do you know that an image is meant to be a a black and white image? The answer is a lot simpler than the general song and dance you hear the pixel pundits put forth. When the cold gets in the way of the gesture. Then it is time to abstract out the color from the image so the gesture remains.

There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have. You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.The composition is already there, you just need to frame it.

Photography is an act of love. When I shoot I fall in love thousands a time in a day. I do not believe in long exposures and and long relationships.

Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back..

I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 100-400mm Nikkor with the 1.4x extender. mage raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.

― John Steinbeck,

The Grapes of Wrath

From my three weeks in Namibia—

If I do my job correctly, I can slow my self down to the speed of life. I can make myself invisible I can bare witness and I can freeze what would be an experienced but an unseen moment of time.

I am allowed to see the one hidden moment of life of the thousands of shown moments of life.

I shot this with the Z6III 135mm S Nikkor f 1.8 plena wide open. The Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

—Audrey Hepburn

From my three weeks in Namibia—

Sunrise, last Moon set before the night of no moon and the last moments of the visor milky way.

I was up before sunrise in the Sossusvlei dessert to do a hot air balloon flight at sunrise. (PRO TIP: If there is a hot air balloon flight to do -do it.) When ever I do a balloon flight I dress accordingly. I also travel with a Tripod. Always. With the goal of the trip being able to say “well I never took it out”. But when you need a tripod you need a tripod. This is a composite of two images. With my eyre I could see the stars, the crescent moon and the circle of illumination of the arriving rising sun. The reality is I saws this. The technical reality is I could expose for the stars or I could expose for the impend

Ing sun rise an moon setting. But not both. I have always been of the belief that the is impossible is an opinion. And is generally the opinion held by the person saying it. Physics has limitations, in this case optical and sensor physics can shoot on event but not both in the same shot. Imagination however is limitless. Saint Francis of Assisi said “Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

The necessary- shoot two images on a tripod expose for the stars expose for the sunrise, the possible blend them in software and suddenly you have done the impossible.

I shot this with the Z6III 135mm S Nikkor Plena Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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Another shot taken during the recent #Nikon100 London #Nikonmeetups.

Having been selected as one of 100 photographers to take part in the Nikon Centenary celebrations the day involved five seperate themed shoots around different locations in London. All in all it was a superbly organised event and I captured a wide variety of shots, my favourite of which I'll upload over the new few days.

This shot is one of my favourites from the Action Photography workshop with Tom Miles ( www.tmphoto.co.uk/ ) and three parkour experts.

Click here to see my other shots from the days workshops : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157686756184653

From Wikipedia : "Parkour (French pronunciation: ​[paʁkuʁ]) is a training discipline using movement that developed from military obstacle course training. Practitioners aim to get from one point to another in a complex environment, without assistive equipment and in the fastest and most efficient way possible. Parkour includes running, climbing, swinging, vaulting, jumping, rolling, quadrupedal movement, and other movements as deemed most suitable for the situation. Parkour's development from military training gives it some aspects of a non-combative martial art.

Parkour is an activity that can be practised alone or with others and is usually—but not exclusively—carried out in urban spaces. Parkour involves seeing one's environment in a new way, and imagining the potential for navigating it by movement around, across, through, over and under its features.

Parkour was developed in France, primarily by Raymond Belle, and further by his son David and the latter's group of friends, the self-styled Yamakasi, during the late 1980s. The discipline was popularised in the late 1990s and 2000s through films, documentaries, and advertisements featuring the Yamakasi."

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Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

- Charles Dickens

From my three weeks in Namibia—

The overarching experience of my time in The Land of Dry Water is the sensation of being seen through while being seen. There was a sense of peacefully, perfect balance that could turn into something just the opposite in an instant. But most of the time calmness.

I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”

I have wanted to travel to Namibia for over 40 years. It all started with the second CD I ever purchased Sanford Ponder’s Etoshia” In the Land of Dry Water.

AND to answer the next question YES I will be organizing a workshop there.

Shot with the Nikon Z6III using the 100-400mm S lens, Post processed with NX Studio and Photoshop CC Beta.and DxO’s NiK collection plug-ins.

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The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera

— Patrick Demarchelier

From my three weeks in Namibia—

At the risk of ticking off a lot of my peers who sell tutorials on how to pose a subject (part 3)….

Trying to “be” natural whilst being placed in a contortion from a photographer s such a very difficult pose to keep up

OR good luck trying pose a Cheetah.

Just sayin’

I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Turning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”

I shot this with the Z6III 100-400 S Nikkor with a 1.4 extender. T Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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Dance for me a minute, and I’ll tell you who you are.

– Mikhail Baryshnikov

I love photographing Cuba. I love photographing ballet dancers. I particularly love photographing Cuban ballet dancers. This is the ballerina Lilia Laura Martinez Hernadez . This is the first image from my latest trip to Cuba. WHAT A BLAST that was. I shot this image with the new Nikon Zf, a very fun camera to shoot and the 135mm f1.8 Plena lens. An exquisitely beautiful piece of glass to work with.

Come join me for my next Cuba trip March 07-14 2024 Seeing the Sounds of Music Hearing the Dance of the Photograph. Working link is in my bio

www.versacephotography.com/.../cuba-seeing-the.../

All images are raw processed using Nikon Studio NX, Post processed in Photoshop CC and the NiK collection by DxO.

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Magic is the whisper of the unseen; art is how we give it form. In stillness, they become one.

-Ginny Brannan

Another from the crypt of lost files—

I am getting ready to go to Africa for 3 weeks and all the vaccinations and newly added visa requirements has pulled me away form my photography post processing.

I am working on a system in which I do not have to bring a laptop and be able to back all my images up. Part of that process was to free up three of my 4tb Sandisk Blade drives. Whilst doing that I found the elusive “folder of lost images.” We all have one that we can’t find but we know exists…. Out there in the ether. I was also updating all of my BW / IR actions so this was a win win.

This image is of of the Ballerina Kamila Quinones Capote. I would say that she is my favorite ballerina to shoot but if I said that there would be no living with her whilst we work. So she’s ok….

All artistic expression comes From the same place we just choose the best metaphor to express our creative expression. Every Artist has an instrument. Musicians what they play, painters brush and canvas, photographers have the camera the lens and the file the post process, Dancers have the their bodies which the hone to respond in ways that defy reality. What I like about working with her is her connection to emotional instrument that is her heart and the physical instrument that is her body is an instantaneous connection of mind/body. I love how she gets lost in the moment even though there are all sots of distractions that are a photoshoot.

Shot with the Nikon Z8 converted to shoot infrared by Kolari Vision. using the 24-120mm S lens. Post processed wit NX Studio and Photoshop CC Beta. BW conversion usingDxO’s NiKcollection silverefex plug-ins.

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“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.”

— Dorothea Lange

In Cuba, Havana specifically Dominos on Sunday are played sometning between an Olympic event and a blood sport. The level of intensity stops time. Simply pit do not get between the players and the game. Thank God for silent shutters and zoom lenses.

There is a powerful advantage to a camera that can focus at the speed of life and that is more silent than a breath held expectant and has a frame rat faster than your nervous system can register.

You can truly create a place when and where the spirt of the subject can hide in your camera.

There is no camera system that has a better or more powerful one. This image was was shot using highlight center metering.

Shot with the AMAZING Z9. The Z9 is more camera than I am photographer.

The color version.

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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks –John Muir.

From my three weeks in Namibia—

Photographing in Etoshia was a non stop an experience of Tachypsychia. (a neurological condition that alters the perception of time).

I was gobsmacked how everything in front of me caused me to just slowed down to the speed of life.

I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”

I have wanted to travel to Namibia for over 40 years. It all started with the second CD I ever purchased Sanford Ponder’s Etoshia” In the Land of Dry Water.

AND to answer the next question YES I will be organizing a workshop there.

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. mage raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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From my latest trip to Cuba.... Street People

I shot this with the Nikon Z7 and the 24-70mm S series lens.

The Z system is simply best of class. The quality of the file and the perfection of the color coupled with the new lenses sharpness, just a joy to shoot. Enough with the commercial...

COLOR VERSION

I was walking down the street after walking the streets, 12 miles by this point (thank god for the healthcares program on my iPhone I suppose) It was hot, humid, I was hungry and thirsty and done.

I was ASO (All Shot Out)

And then I was taken. I try to create images that put the viewer in the same place the moment I was taken by the moment.

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Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music

—George Carlin

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba. I love photographing Ballet dancers, Cuban Ballet dancers are the best dancers I have ever seen dance.This image is of the Ballerina Kamila Capote. What I love about working with her is I just let her go and I try to hold on for the ride.

I shot this with my new Nikon Z6III the 85mm f 1.2 Nikkor lens. 1/2500 of a sec ISO 4000 Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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One of my favourite portraits of model Monique Sterling ( www.instagram.com/moniquesterling ) from the recent #Nikon100 London #NikonMeetups fashion shoot at a fabulous location in West London ( www.shootfactory.co.uk/uk-locations/randolph-london-w9/ ). It was quite a dull day but the orange colour of the outfit still appreared quite luminous despite only being lit with difuse light from the adjacent window.

Having been selected as one of 100 photographers to take part in the Nikon Centenary celebrations the day involved five seperate themed shoots around different locations in London. All in all it was a superbly organised event and I captured a wide variety of shots, some in genres I've not much experience.

Click here to see my other shots from the various model shoots I've been involved in : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157648496261420

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This is a set still of Aiden Quinn whilst shooting on Daughter of the Bride. What an absolute gentleman and lovey actor to work with.

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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant – the only harmless great thing.

—John Donner

From my three weeks in Namibia—

When I shot that and was no more than 15 feet away I was thinking “top of the food chain my ass. Glad elephants are vegetarians.”

I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Turning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”

I shot this with the Z6III 100-400 S Nikkor with a 1.4 extender. T Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

– Terry Pratchett

The hardest thing to cook is a scrambled egg. The hardest portrait to capture is a cat. They know before you do when you are going to press the shutter.

I am practicing for my conversational portrait class in a few weeks. I I can get a portrait of a cat…. Then I can take a portrait of anything.

I shot this with the Nikon Zf and the 135mm Plena. Raw file processed in NX Studio NiK collection Silver Efex Pro v7 in Photoshop beta.

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The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera

—Yusef Karsh

From my three weeks in Namibia—

I am not a wildlife photographer. The closet thing I have ever shot that was a wild animal is my elusive Nibelung house cats Gianni and Valentino. I am a believer that you fallinlove a thousand times a day usually around 125 to 250th of a second. Not a big believer in long exposures or long relationships. But when the image takes you in that moment you fall in love with it.

Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”

– Dorothea Lange

From my three weeks in Namibia—

Albert Einstein posited that we are initial observers time and of things around us. That no two people will observe, see or experience an event the same way based on our position to the event as it happens.

However no mater what or placement to an image all observers see the moment of a stilled moment of time, the photograph, exactly the same way.

One of the profound honors, and it is an honor, I have been allowed to experience with my camera is to be in places where people have never seen an image of themselves or for that matter are aware of the power of the light capturing light saber that I wield.

Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

I shot this with the Z6III 135mm S Nikkor f 1.8 plena wide open. The Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

— John Gunther

From my three weeks in Namibia—

The only thing this lion needs is a toothpick.

I shot this with the Z8 modified for full spectrum by Kolarivision with the 590nm magnetic filter 135mm S Nikkor Plena lens. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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In a 10 day period I flew to SaltLake City, drove to Yellowstone, drove to Jackson Hole Wyoming, then to Moab then back to Salt Lake City then back to Moab then back to Salt lake City then flew to Los Angeles. I drove 2264 miles and spent 23 hours in a car. After that juggernaught I had a 21 hour turn around and flew to New York city for 7 days then back to Los Angeles (9 hour turn around and flew to Maine for a week.

This is image was capture during the first trip to Moab. It was a new moon, so the Milky Way was visible at 3:30am.

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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

- John Berger

From my three weeks in Namibia—

Light is the jewel of the photograph.the motion of the moment is held still like an expectant breath. Time is is stoped and the moment of inertial observance is seen exactly the same by every one who looks at the image.

I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”

I have wanted to travel to Namibia for over 40 years. It all started with the second CD I ever purchased Sanford Ponder’s Etoshia” In the Land of Dry Water.

AND to answer the next question YES I will be organizing a workshop there.

Shot with the Nikon Z6III using the 100-400mm S lens, Post processed with NX Studio and Photoshop CC Beta.and DxO’s NiK collection plug-ins.

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A Lioness does not need to roar To keep the crowd in awe..

- African Proverb

From my three weeks in Namibia—

There is something humbling be so close to something that could eat you if they really thought you were worth the bother.

I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”

I have wanted to travel to Namibia for over 40 years. It all started with the second CD I ever purchased Sanford Ponder’s Etoshia” In the Land of Dry Water.

AND to answer the next question YES I will be organizing a workshop there.

Shot with the Nikon Z8 modified to capture Infrared using the 24-120mm S lens, Post processed with NX Studio and Photoshop CC Beta.and DxO’s NiK collection plug-ins.

#Nikon100 #nikonlove #kelbyone #photography #onOne#mirrorless #Z6II #NIKKOR 24-120mm S lens #NikonNoFilter #nxstudio #niksoftware #nikonUSA #Epson #nikonusa @NIKONUSA #Africa #Etoshia

#wacom #calibrite #onone #sunbounce #fineartphotography #kolarivision @nikonusa #shotonnikon

#DxO #iamgenerationimage #iamnikon #B&H #PhotogenicbyBenQ

#nikonLOVE #hoodman #Namibia #Africa #nikonnofilter #nikonambassador

I have been chomping at the bit to be able to talk about one of the new features in the Z8 3.0 firmware update. Specifically the ability to do a pixel shift / focus shift series of captures. Wow…… the color fidelity, and incredible detail is mind boggling but having your cake and eat it too with being able to mix wide ope with critical aperture for the sharpest and creamiest Bokeh again Wow…..

Pixel Shift is an option where the camera moves the sensor during a series of captures. This series is then merged in the Nikon NX Studio software. In this case, the pixel shift option was set to the maximum capture option of 32 images. The camera exposed an image then moved the sensor… about half the width of a single pixel… and exposed the next one. For 32 images. Those 32 NEF (RAW) files were merged into one massive NEFX raw file that now has a resolution of about 180,000,000 pixels.

Focus Shift Shooting is an option where the camera makes an exposure then shifts focus to a different plane and makes another exposure. The cool part is that the camera is automatically setting the shift movement so that a series of images can be stacked on post in such a way to increase the depth of the PLANE of focus. This results in a subject the can have a nearly unlimited amount of the subject focus. Not just more depth of field, but depth of actual in focus.

The Z8 FW 3.0 is the first time anyone has offered both at the same time on a full frame professional camera.

#Nikon100 #nikonlove #kelbyone #photography #onOne#mirrorless #Z8 #NIKKOR #NikonNoFilter #nxstudio #niksoftware #nikonUSA #Epson #nikonusa @NIKONUSA #focus shift#pixel shift

#wacom #calibrite #onone #sunbounce #fineartphotography #kolarivision @nikonusa #shotonnikon

#DxO #iamgenerationimage #iamnikon #B&H

#nikonLOVE #hoodman #infrared #Z8 firmware update #nikonnofilter #nikonambassador

Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind. And mind can only see things that already written in heart.

— Toba Beta

From my three weeks in Namibia—

Another “Did I take this picture of the Cheetah or did the Cheetah” take me? When did the decisive moment happen? Am I at the beginning, middle or end of it?

I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”

I shot this with the Z6III 100-400 S Nikkor with a 1.4 extender. The dune at 1/5000 of Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

#Nikon100 #nikonlove #kelbyone #photography #onOne @NikonUSA

#mirrorless #Z6III #NIKKOR 100-400mm S lens #NikonNoFilter #nxstudio #niksoftware #nikonUSA #Epson #nikonusa @NIKONUSA

#wacom #calibrite #onone #sunbounce #fineartphotography #kolarivision #shotonnikon

#DxO #iamgenerationimage #iamnikon #B&H

#nikonLOVE #hoodman #infrared #Namibia #nikonnofilter #nikonambassador #Delkin Black

#nikonLOVE #Namibia #Africa #nikonnofilter #nikonambassador

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

-Ray Cummings

It has been said that on a clear day you can see forever. No. On a clear day you can see up to 22 miles. To truly see forever you need fog. This is a drive by shooting ( I stopped by the side of the road whilst driving) of a view of the Douro Valley in Portugal.

#Nikon100 #nikonlove #lexar #kelbyone #photography #onOne @NikonUSA

#mirrorless #Nikonz9 #NikonNoFilter #niksoftware #nikonUSA #Epson

#wacom #xritephoto #calibrite #onone #sunbounce #fineartphotography #kolarivision

#DxO #iamgenerationimage #iamnikon #B&H #PhotogenicbyBenQ

#nikonLOVE #hoodman #infrared

#nikonnofilter #nikonambassador

DANCERS!!!

I love photographing dancers, especially Cuban Ballet Dancers.This is from my latest trip to Cuba. We were on our way back from shooting dancers leaping in the street and the lights was right, the background screamed 105mm f 1.4 and the single hardstanding Oscar Treto Hevia. — with Oscar Treto Hevia. The light was helped with a small sparkling sun sunbounce reflector.

Shot with the Amazing Nikon Z7 using the FTZ adaptor and the 105mm f 1.4 Nikkor lens

#Nikon100 #nikonlove #lexar #kelbyone #photography#onOne @NikonUSA #mirrorless #Nikonz7 #105mm #cuba #ballet #PBPW #NikonNoFilter #niksoftware#nikonUSA #Epson #wacom #xritephoto #onone #sunbounce#fineartphotography #DxO #iamgenerationimage #iamnikon #B&H

Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.

J.R.R. Tolkien

From my three weeks in Namibia—

Time just pauses as well as moves. Stillness has no motion and yet moves.

Everything feels as if you have just exhaled and have yet to inhale. The experiencing of the equipoise of life.

I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”

I have wanted to travel to Namibia for over 40 years. It all started with the second CD I ever purchased Sanford Ponder’s Etoshia” In the Land of Dry Water.

AND to answer the next question YES I will be organizing a workshop there.

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. mage raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

#Nikon100 #nikonlove #kelbyone #photography #onOne @NikonUSA

#mirrorless #Z6III #NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens #NikonNoFilter #nxstudio #niksoftware #nikonUSA #Epson #nikonusa @NIKONUSA

#wacom #calibrite #onone #sunbounce #fineartphotography #kolarivision @nikonusa #shotonnikon

#DxO #iamgenerationimage #iamnikon #B&H

#nikonLOVE #hoodman #infrared #CUBA #nikonnofilter #nikonambassador #Delkin Black

#nikonLOVE #Namibia #Africa #nikonnofilter #nikonambassador