micrometeorites

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I was watching a movie by Werner Herzog called ‘Fireball’, which is on Apple TV right now. In it, he met up with a scientist in Oslo who was using the rooftop of a local stadium as a catchment area for meteorites. But these meteorites are micro-meteorites. Tiny ‘space dust’ particles that he is able to hoover up with some magnets due to their iron compounds.

They are so small, that you’d think there would be nothing remarkable about them, as you can see in the photo of the finger.

But the scientists who’ve been collecting these micro-meteorites have been using some very high resolution photography to study them.

I found the photographs of them extremely beautiful.

I have no affiliation with the website where I got these images from. But it appears that you can buy these meteorites ! Anyway, if you’d like to go and view some more micro meteorites and see how they were found, you can visit the website treasuresfromspace.com.

I would also thoroughly recommend Werner Herzog’s movie ‘Fireball’. It’s on AppleTV.

Print storage and worktable

I was sorely needing a table where I can work on my prints, and also somewhere to store prints and art work I’ve produced.

This got me thinking about how many of us actually get something to store our prints in? I opted for an architect set of drawers. It’s rather large, but now that I have it set up, it’s just what I was looking for.

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I think a studio of some kind is a complete luxury, but often not considered. How many of us are just editing our photographs on a laptop on the sofa? I have another desk with a permanent screen set up - an Eizo display alongside a daylight viewing booth, so I can review my prints against my monitor.

I appreciate this is a luxury for most. How many of us have the space, or a spare room to do this with? But I do think it’s something to consider. Especially if you print. Which I think all photographers should do.

Minimalism in the Icelandic Landscape

I’ve just published dates for an updated tour to Iceland in winter time. The trip focusses on shooting minimalist winter scapes in the Icelandic landscape.

Hotels & Comfort

Unlike the previous incarnation of this tour, we will be staying at a hotel situated on the very edge of this wilderness landscape. So private rooms, showers and a nice glass of wine in the evening :-)

If you love to shoot minimalist compositions, with black brush strokes on a white canvas, then this trip is for you.

During the week we will spend together, we will be based in a highland hotel, situated on the outskirts of the minimalist landscapes we aim to photograph.

The landscape is seldom the same. Snow conditions will vary which contributes to this being a trip of exploring. Each day we will venture out to see what we will find. If you are open minded and like to go with the flow, rather than follow a fixed itinerary, then this will be the trip for you.

April 12 - 18, 2023
Price: $5,495 USD
Deposit: $1,648 USD
7-Day Photographic Adventure

Print Buyer's Home settings

I love receiving emails from folks who’ve bought my prints. I love even more seeing my prints framed and in place in their homes.

Over the years I’ve had folks send me emails from all over the world with my prints hanging on the walls. Sometimes I’ve even seen them hanging right next to an Ansel Adams original (which is very complimentary).

I really like the arrangement for this collection. I love triptychs, and to me, single photographs aren’t what it’s really about. I’m much more interested in a cohesive theme, and a collection of three images that sit tightly next to one another is more important than having twenty good images that don’t fit as well.

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Of course I’d like to sell more prints. But I’ll let you in on a secret: few amateur landscape photographers buy other people’s work.

But I think most amateurs should really fill their houses with their own work first, anyway. Printing and framing your own work is the final step to completing your work. It is also immensely satisfying to see the work reach another level when it is hanging on a wall. I have often thought that printing is nice, matting the print is nicer, and framing it is even nicer still. But nothing beats seeing the completed object hanging on a wall.

I’ll let you in on another secret: few photographers actually print any of their work.

The print is greatly undervalued in my opinion. We should print more, exhibit more, and also, when we have the spare cash, buy other’s work we admire.

In my own case, I have a couple of John Blakemore prints at home. A Michael Kenna (that’s another story), and a Charlie Cramer. I’d like to get some more in time.

Printing is where it’s at. When you print, you notice things in the hard copy that you didn’t notice on your monitor. It’s the final verification stage, and if you can get it to look great in print, it will always look great on a monitor. But the opposite is not true.

Anyway, thanks so much to Pete for sending me this photo. I get great satisfaction from seeing my work ‘complete’ - printed / matted / framed, and placed on a wall.