Resources
Photography requires inspiration, time, technique and some equipment. Below are some of them.
Inspiration
Art WolfeAnsel Adams
Ansel Adams @ Artsy
Henri Cartier Bresson
Equipment
I use a lot of Nikon stuff, film and digital, older and modern lenses. My black & white images are mostly done on film, but some are done digitally and then converted. I like the intimacy that my old film body with a 50mm lens brings. People open up and care less about being photographed than with a larger digital camera and bigger lenses. It also perfectly prevents me from looking at the display after each shot to see whether it worked. I focus more on seeing and shooting well that way.
My landscape work is done almost always with a big sturdy tripod, digital cameras and whatever lens feels right for the subject. I do get up before first light a lot, though.
Useful Links
www.photographydirectory.org
PhotoClicksPro-Photography Directory
Photography links directory at FreePhotoGallery
Peasant in Shaxi, Shaxi, Yunnan, China
An older peasant is sitting in on the door step of a restaurant, smoking cigarette stubs given to him by the patrons.
This image presented itself to me when I was having lunch in the old town of Shaxi in the mountains of Yunnan. The man slowly inched closer the our table the other patrons, gathering cigarette stubs and also hoping for something to eat.
The village is in a remote part of Yunnan, with few tourists and the farmers come from the surrounding villages to market every week. They are easy targets for the locals, since they hardly know the value of money and live a very secluded live.
The image was shot as he was sitting in the door, bathed in the light of the day against a dark interior.
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