Photography
Local Lives 16 posted
08/04/13 23:03 Filed in: Website Updates
Local Lives 16, an expanded gallery of images documenting Sonny Murray, an elder of the Tobago goat racing community, is posted here…
Download PDFs of the published version of this photo essay and others here.
You'll find the text accompanying the story here.
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TV6 Images of Carnival story
11/02/13 21:57 Filed in: Website Updates
The two part story on "The Images of Carnival" by Jabari Fraser can be viewed here...
Local Lives 15 posted
11/02/13 22:13 Filed in: Website Updates
Local Lives 15, a gallery of images documenting the Phase II journey to Panorama is here.
Download PDFs of the published version of this photo essay and others here.
You'll find the expanded text accompanying the story here.
On Andros
14/01/13 23:17 Filed in: Website Updates
Young wedding photographer Andros Belfonte posted a note that stirred a strong reaction from photographers. Here's a considered response to it.
New Home page
07/01/13 16:46 Filed in: Website Updates
Finally got around to updating my website home page (for shame, it's been almost a year) and changing out the Carnival 2012 gallery of important and largely forgotten personalities for a new one.
This new home page slideshow features seven images taken from the selection of photographs that were accepted into the Art Society's photographic retrospective, Record : Art : Memory, about which I've written more here and here.
This new home page slideshow features seven images taken from the selection of photographs that were accepted into the Art Society's photographic retrospective, Record : Art : Memory, about which I've written more here and here.
Meet the Queen
18/12/12 01:19 Filed in: Website Updates
Notes about my first formal sitting with a reigning beauty queen, Athaliah Samuel, with quite attractive photos of the gorgeous young woman, are posted here..
Dreamscape delivers
03/12/12 22:43 Filed in: Musing
Photography as a vocation
27/11/12 00:09 Filed in: Website Updates
Photography has many facets, commercial, creative, documentary and more. My own journey with the craft has been made more fulfilling by a carefully managed balance between images shot for business purpose and images shot just because they should be.
BitDepth#862posted
26/11/12 23:58 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth#862, a look at the Art Society's exhibit in celebration of 50 years of independence and the role that photography has played as an instrument of record for this country is posted here...
Questions answered
20/11/12 00:36 Filed in: Website Updates
Free photography
09/07/12 22:54 Filed in: Website Updates
A great experience working on a promotional poster for ALTA triggers thoughts about the dynamics of pro bono work and how I approach it.
Bronze at the Panos
07/05/12 23:37 Filed in: News
Here's a backstory on my history with panoramic images and the Great Fete experience in particular.
The competition attracts quite a few entrants, growing from 2740 images entered in 2010 to 3,586 in 2011. Statistics for 2012 participants are still to be posted to the website for the competition.
Local Lives 14 posted
27/02/12 21:08 Filed in: Website Updates
Local Lives 14, the story of The Original Whipmasters, a traditional Jab Jab group grooming its fourth generation of players, is posted here…
The home of the Local Lives series is here...
The home of the Local Lives series is here...
BitDepth 821 posted
13/02/12 21:44 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth#821, a look at copyright from the perspective of photographers who are digital natives, is posted here…
And here's an interview with photographer Laura Ferreira on copyright, part of the backgrounder for the column.
And here's an interview with photographer Laura Ferreira on copyright, part of the backgrounder for the column.
BitDepth 820 posted
06/02/12 21:34 Filed in: Website Updates
Noel Norton is gone
23/01/12 22:39 Filed in: Photography
Noel Norton, the remarkable photographer whose fifty-year career touched many clients and photographers passed away on January 12.
BitDepth 818, on his passing, is here.
Here's a story I wrote about him in 1999 for the Guardian's Sunday Magazine and another I wrote in 2005 on the occasion of his honorary doctorate from UTT.
A rememberance of his wife and lifelong business partner, Mary, is here.
BitDepth 818, on his passing, is here.
Here's a story I wrote about him in 1999 for the Guardian's Sunday Magazine and another I wrote in 2005 on the occasion of his honorary doctorate from UTT.
A rememberance of his wife and lifelong business partner, Mary, is here.
The Wire's photo department remembered
12/09/11 23:07 Filed in: Website Updates
A blog post about The Wire, ten years after it started operations, and more specifically my experience building it's all digital photographic department, is posted here...
BitDepth 799 posted
12/09/11 23:05 Filed in: Website Updates
Wide angle view
15/08/11 23:39 Filed in: Website Updates
A look at my scattered dabblings with panoramic photographs is posted here...
Great Fete albums
08/08/11 23:20 Filed in: Website Updates
Great Fete photographs, from 2009 to 2011 are posted here...
What makes a photographer?
25/07/11 21:38 Filed in: Website Updates
Some thoughts that young photographers might wish to consider when approaching photography as a craft are posted here...
The photodesk gets hit first
18/07/11 22:38 Filed in: Website Updates
Some notes and thoughts about where photography is going in local newspapers are posted here...
Updates to the freeness
27/06/11 23:55 Filed in: Website Updates
Several items have been added to the Free section of the website, several of which are specific to a course I'm doing at UWI's film school, but photographers interested in a RAW workflow discussion might like the vidcast I've prepared on the subject.
Clients and RAW files
13/06/11 22:53 Filed in: Website Updates
A photo blog note on the dilemma that photographers may face when clients demand their RAW images is posted here...
Pix from the past: Robert Munro, 1999
30/05/11 20:41 Filed in: Website Updates
Detail photographs of Robert Munro add to the portrait of the musician. Here's how that came together.
Pix from the past: Walcott, 1983
23/05/11 23:24 Filed in: Website Updates
An opportunity to photograph playwright and poet Derek Walcott dropped into the middle of theatre promotion at the beginning of my career.
Messing with the Photoshop
16/05/11 23:45 Filed in: Website Updates
Early adventures with Photoshop and how they shaped my approach to digital photography.
Pix from the past: Minshall, 1993
09/05/11 23:36 Filed in: Website Updates
I'll be looking back, on my photo blog, at how I approached a few images that have turned out to have some legs over the years. First up, Minshall in 1993.
Photographing Gab Hosein
25/04/11 23:37 Filed in: Website Updates
A look at a single light source shoot in broad daylight and some of the issues that arose.
Updates to image galleries
05/04/11 15:25 Filed in: Website Updates
Local Lives 13 posted
15/03/11 00:07 Filed in: Website Updates
Local Lives 13, the story of a group of Catholic faithful who decided to change Carnival by bringing their own band on their own terms into the festival is posted here...
Blog post on scanning negatives
31/01/11 23:07 Filed in: Website Updates
Photography in Corporate Communications
07/12/10 20:33 Filed in: Presentations
Photography in Corporate Communications - December 2010 from Mark Lyndersay on Vimeo.
A significant update to an earlier presentation on strategies for maximising photography in modern, digitally enabled corporate communications environments.
Related...
Download the presentation here.
Read the related BitDepth column here.
Gallery updates
29/11/10 22:52 Filed in: Website Updates
Some quite fetching gallery updates are to be found in the Outlish, Womanwise and Editorial Tearsheets photography galleries.
Refreshed image galleries
08/11/10 21:10 Filed in: Website Updates
Made some changes to my photography galleries. The Big Folio is now shut down and those galleries along with new tearsheet galleries are now found here...
One Life competition entry
25/10/10 21:57 Filed in: News
I've entered a portfolio in the One Life competition and public voting is open until October 29. You can see the entries and vote here.
New photography posted
20/09/10 20:05 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth on digital photography
27/09/10 21:09 Filed in: Website Updates
All the links to the BitDepth series on digital photography.
Here's the lineup...
BitDepth 750 - This Photographer's Way
BitDepth 749 - The Copyright Condom
BitDepth 748 - Professionals versus Amateurs
BitDepth 747 - The digital photographer's workflow
BitDepth 746 - An ode to good glass
BitDepth 745 - Your new digital camera
Here's the lineup...
BitDepth 750 - This Photographer's Way
BitDepth 749 - The Copyright Condom
BitDepth 748 - Professionals versus Amateurs
BitDepth 747 - The digital photographer's workflow
BitDepth 746 - An ode to good glass
BitDepth 745 - Your new digital camera
BitDepth 748 posted
13/09/10 19:11 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth#748, a look at the real differences between amateur and professional photographers is posted here. The full e-mail interview that I did with R, of TrinidadDreamscape.net, is posted here.
BitDepth 747 posted
06/09/10 22:42 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth#747, a recounting of my digital workflow for photography, is posted here...
BitDepth 746 posted
31/08/10 11:57 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth#746, a look at the importance of a good lens in photography, is posted here...
BitDepth 745 posted
26/08/10 20:42 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth#745, a look at strategies for investing in a DSLR camera, is posted here...
New images in the Big Folio
12/07/10 19:55 Filed in: Website Updates
Outlish gallery updated
29/06/10 01:07 Filed in: Website Updates
New portraits of Synergy soca star Richard "Chynee" Valentine, AIDS activist David Soomarie and popular (and anonymous) Carnival blogger Saucy Diva are posted here...
Local Lives 12 posted
21/06/10 20:01 Filed in: Website Updates
Gallery updates
14/06/10 21:07 Filed in: Website Updates
New photographs posted in the Outlish Big Folio gallery. Ryan Khan and Rehana Ali join the portrait hall of burgeoning fame from the new online magazine Outlish.
New portrait gallery in Big Folio
17/05/10 20:15 Filed in: Website Updates
A new oversized collection of portraits done for the new online magazine Outlish.com, featuring young adults making their mark in Trinidad and Tobago, is posted here...
Kenisha and the wireless triggers
19/04/10 21:01 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth 726 posted
12/04/10 19:01 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth 726, a longer view perspective on the surge in interest in photography, is posted here...
The original Facebook discussion on the subject is excerpted here...
The original Facebook discussion on the subject is excerpted here...
New galleries posted in Stock photography
28/03/10 22:01 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth 722 posted
15/03/10 23:46 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth 722, a reminiscing over the 20 years that Photoshop has been with us, is posted here...
Local Lives 11 posted
20/02/10 22:51 Filed in: Website Updates
An expanded gallery of Local Lives 11, a photoessay about the J'Ouvert band Chocolate City, is posted here. A downloadable PDF of the story as it appeared in the Guardian's Carnival souvenir is available here. Curious about how Local lives gets done? There's also a vidcast on the the download page.
Mining a lost archive
01/02/10 23:14 Filed in: Website Updates
The backstory on 'A Gift of the Past,' in Caribbean Beat's January-February issue, about a collection of my father's old negatives and the history of Carnival that they revealed, is posted here... The text from that story is posted here...
The Local Lives process
18/01/10 23:32 Filed in: Website Updates
Photographing Debbie Ali
04/01/10 22:10 Filed in: Website Updates
Photographing a kidnapping victim on the very first day of the year proves to be the kind of challenge that makes photojournalism really interesting.
BitDepth 712 posted
04/01/10 22:08 Filed in: Website Updates
Giselle, finally
22/12/09 00:05 Filed in: Website Updates
In the 23 years since Giselle La Ronde-West won the Miss World title, I have never once photographed her. Womanwise gives me my first shot at an ageless beauty.
Diamond cover
14/12/09 22:04 Filed in: Website Updates
Lystra, decades later
07/12/09 22:48 Filed in: Website Updates
Photographer's notes on a session with veteran model Lystra Cudjoe are posted here...
Career contemplation videocast
07/12/09 22:43 Filed in: Website Updates
A videocast of a presentation covering my career to date prepared for St Joseph's Convent students and the bpTT photography club is posted here...
Womanwise Virtual Gallery
01/12/09 00:38 Filed in: Website Updates
Interested in the photos I've been doing for Womanwise? There's now a virtual gallery of the work available here. It's made for big screens, I'm afraid.
Shoot Mystie for me, said the editor
01/12/09 00:30 Filed in: Website Updates
The wonderful world of Mystie. Behind the Womanwise shoot.
Yes, I get to shoot Wilhelmina models
23/11/09 23:07 Filed in: Website Updates
Photo session number 13 turns out to be an encounter with a former Wilhelmina model. I laugh at your reputation for bad luck! Hahahahaha! Oh, and the photographer's notes are here...
Destra in da house
16/11/09 22:42 Filed in: Website Updates
Planning for a pregnant Destra takes some forethought and some strategy. Here's how I tackled the challenge.
10 ways to improve your photography
09/11/09 23:21 Filed in: Website Updates
Womanwise gone wrong
09/11/09 23:19 Filed in: Website Updates
Photographer's notes on a tragedy of errors that scuttled a strong effort at delivering a good Womanwise cover in challenging circumstances are posted here...
Photographing Carolyn Pasea
02/11/09 23:15 Filed in: Website Updates
Photography notes on my session with music producer and talent manager Carolyn Pasea for the Sunday Guardian's Womanwise magazine are posted here...
Local Lives 10, The Children's Ramayana posted
17/10/09 22:54 Filed in: Website Updates
My photo essay on the Bal Ramdilla, a learning experience at the Hindu Prachar Kendra that involves children in the writing, directing and performance of the epic Ramleela is archived online here as a downloadable PDF.
You can view an expanded online gallery of images from the shoot here. If you just want to read the text, that's to be found here...
Background notes and technical information about the project has been added here...
Derek Walcott's 1992 Nobel Lecture, which meditates on a Ramleela in Felicity, is here...
You can view an expanded online gallery of images from the shoot here. If you just want to read the text, that's to be found here...
Background notes and technical information about the project has been added here...
Derek Walcott's 1992 Nobel Lecture, which meditates on a Ramleela in Felicity, is here...
TDC Divali Competition
15/10/09 11:58 Filed in: Website Updates
The Tourism Development Company launched its Divali photography competition for amateurs. I took issue with one of the terms. Five hours later, the company graciously amended a critical parameter of the competition.
The original post on the matter, sent via e-mail and posted as a Facebook note was also posted here...
I've extracted all the responses that came via Facebook comment threads, e-mailed responses and web comments here...
To put some context on this, I've added a post about my own experiences as a content creator with various incarnations of the local tourism company here...
The original post on the matter, sent via e-mail and posted as a Facebook note was also posted here...
I've extracted all the responses that came via Facebook comment threads, e-mailed responses and web comments here...
To put some context on this, I've added a post about my own experiences as a content creator with various incarnations of the local tourism company here...
Notes on Allison Demas photos
12/10/09 22:28 Filed in: Website Updates
Photographer's notes on a cover shoot with Allison Demas and her daughter Aisha for Womanwise are posted here...
Wendy Fitzwilliam - photo notes
28/09/09 22:36 Filed in: Website Updates
Photography notes on my photo session with Wendy Fitzwilliam and her son at her home are posted here...
Photo notes on Dr Pat Mohammed posted
14/09/09 23:37 Filed in: Website Updates
Photographer's notes on my photo shoot with UWI lecturer Dr Patricia Mohammed are posted here...
BitDepth 696 posted
07/09/09 21:00 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth#696, a look at Peter Krogh's updated edition of his seminal book on digital asset management is posted here...
BitDepth 668 posted
23/02/09 19:28 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth 668, musings about the ways that technology has changed my photographic approach to Carnival is posted here...
New Galleries, including Viey La Cou series
15/02/09 15:21 Filed in: Website Updates
The Viey La Cou series is now live in the Virtual Gallery. A behind the scenes account of the 1989 shoot is posted in my photo blog.
The GayelleTV gallery formerly in my portfolio has been revisited, re-edited and is now posted in Virtual Gallery format in that section.
The GayelleTV gallery formerly in my portfolio has been revisited, re-edited and is now posted in Virtual Gallery format in that section.
Blog post on Canon's wireless flash sync
14/02/09 00:06 Filed in: Website Updates
Notes on what happens when you press two of Canon's ETTL strobes with wireless sync into service in the middle of the St James Hosay celebrations.
Carnival portrait series to run from Friday
09/02/09 21:46 Filed in: Website Updates
The Viey La Cou series, portraits of traditional Carnival characters that I shot at that celebration in the early 80's, will begin on Friday.
On Duke
15/01/09 22:52 Filed in: Website Updates
Mass updates
04/11/08 09:43 Filed in: Website Updates
After almost a full week of hacking my lungs up and blowing my sinuses into a rather vast assortment of tissues, I've finally mustered the energy to begin posting to the site again.
Fortunately, I'm working from copious notes from the show floor at PhotoPlus Expo 2008, so the assortment of drugs and remedies I've been ingesting hasn't quite succeeded in wiping my brain pan clean of what I encountered over the three days of Expo.
Herewith, a roundup of all the new postings to the site...
BitDepth 651 covers a panel at PhotoPlus on the way Microstock has changed the face of not just stock photography sales but the profile of contributors.
There are additional notes from that panel posted to my Photo Blog here.
BitDepth 652 covers the panel of winners of this year's All Roads Project. Just one of the winners was able to make it, and his story is a remarkable one.
Day One of my PhotoPlus expo blog coverage covers the hunt for a new sling bag.
Fortunately, I'm working from copious notes from the show floor at PhotoPlus Expo 2008, so the assortment of drugs and remedies I've been ingesting hasn't quite succeeded in wiping my brain pan clean of what I encountered over the three days of Expo.
Herewith, a roundup of all the new postings to the site...
BitDepth 651 covers a panel at PhotoPlus on the way Microstock has changed the face of not just stock photography sales but the profile of contributors.
There are additional notes from that panel posted to my Photo Blog here.
BitDepth 652 covers the panel of winners of this year's All Roads Project. Just one of the winners was able to make it, and his story is a remarkable one.
Day One of my PhotoPlus expo blog coverage covers the hunt for a new sling bag.
Blogging the show floor
22/10/08 16:48 Filed in: BitDepth+
The next installment of BitDepth (October 28) will be a report on highlights from this year's PhotoPlus Expo, but from Thursday evening, I'll be blogging my findings and notes from the show floor of the PhotoPlus Expo 2008 at the Jacob Javits Centre in New York for the duration of the three days of the show.
You'll find that coverage posted on my photoblog here...
You'll find that coverage posted on my photoblog here...
BitDepth 647 Posted
29/09/08 20:51 Filed in: Website Updates
PhotoBlog: Lenses, not cameras
22/09/08 21:11 Filed in: Photography
A new entry on my photography blog explores the importance of high quality lenses on digital camera bodies. Find it here...
Fundraisers for Jeffrey Chock annoucned
22/09/08 21:15 Filed in: Photography
Dreamscape goes nuts
08/09/08 20:19 Filed in: Website Updates
Trinidad Dreamscape freaks out after finding out that Noel Norton is shooting with a digital camera.
Chock fundraising
08/09/08 23:09 Filed in: Photography
PhotoBlog: I hate shooting tethered
12/08/08 22:59 Filed in: Photography
Beat Big Up for La Fleur Morte
28/07/08 22:09 Filed in: Photography
The story by journalist James Fuller offers some kind words about my work and manages to date me quite nicely.
I'm not so ancient, however, that I'm likely to be doddering about humming Neil Diamond songs for inspiration, so please note that James misheard me and the quote that he cites is by Neil Gaiman, not the composer of the film Jonathan Livingston Seagull that some folks consider to be quite inspirational.
You can view the story online here...
You can also access many stories from the current issue of Caribbean Beat as well as archives of the magazine by signing up for a free subscription here...
There's a blog posting on my website and links to other material about the project here...
Interview with Magella Moreau and Dennis McComie of Gayelle TV's Cock a Doodle Doo.
Slideshow movie that I prepared for that appearance.
Download the interview here and the slideshow here.
RBTT becomes RBC
15/07/08 11:23 Filed in: Musing
Photo Blog Posting: Pixels are Not free
24/06/08 12:15 Filed in: Website Updates
A new Photo Blog posting is available on the real cost of digital images...
Stock photography section
16/06/08 23:11 Filed in: Website Updates
New photography blog added
16/06/08 23:08 Filed in: Website Updates
Decided to move my ruminations about photography to a new blog. The first few entries consolidate information about my photojournalism projects and contemplate an egg. Read more here...
BitDepth 628 posted
19/05/08 19:43 Filed in: Website Updates
Instant obsolesence
28/04/08 19:30 Filed in: Photography
Hosay in full swing
16/01/08 20:45 Filed in: Photography
La Fleur Morte
18/12/07 00:03 Filed in: Photography
Click on each photo to see an enlarged detail.
These images are excerpts from a larger work that is in progress in which I examine the way that flowers, the reproductive organs of plants, deteriorate after they are picked and discarded.
The first two images were selected for display in the Art Society's November exhibition for 2007 and you can view an interview with Magella Moreau and Dennis McComie on the Gayelle Morning Show, Cock a Doodle Doo here and download the interview here. If you're curious about the slideshow I put together for my appearance, you can find that download here and view it here.
Tapes on RAW
22/10/07 21:47 Filed in: BitDepth+
Gayelle TV interview
16/08/07 20:14 Filed in: Photography
AMPOTT Judges' Notes, 2005
12/08/07 16:49 Filed in: AMPOTT
AMPOTT Judging
10/08/07 20:31 Filed in: Photography
The Modern Eye
06/08/07 21:20 Filed in: Photography
Alex Smailes & Carnival
25/06/07 20:23 Filed in: Photography
I've also written about Noel Norton here... Read More...
Five Fingers
07/05/07 17:07 Filed in: Photography
