New Zealand Landscape Photography

What Happens When We Pay Attention?

A September of landscapes, creative lives and connections, from the Home of Compassion to Te Papa Travelling with a friend: photographing beauty and connecting In my last post, I wrote that August was awesome and September would offer even more. Part of that story began on the road with my friend and fellow photographer James Stonely. We travelled south through winter landscapes to create new work for my 2027 calendar and for Jame's brilliant truestock images. There were mou

August was awesome...September is going to be more!

In August I attended the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photographers (NZIPP) conference and IRIS awards live judging event. If you want to see what the judging is like you can watch recordings on YouTube here and here, and here. As a seasoned conference attendee and presenter through my energy consultant career, I was expecting it to be interesting but just like every other conference...a bit boring at times... :-) How wrong I was: I was engaged, entertained, infor

What happens when you widen the aperture?

Over the past year I found myself thinking a lot about attention, awe, creativity, and how we live well when certainty is unavailable. Those reflections came together through consulting work, photography, public talks, workshops, and a series of unexpected connections that grew out of curiosity rather than planning. They eventually became a longer essay, Widening the Aperture, which explores what it means to widen the frame rather than narrow it, to let in more light, and to