Portraits in the park.

Fellow photographer, DJ and engineer Daniel Wood had a guest this weekend. Alex, who’s best described as the bastard love-child of the tenth and eleventh Doctor Who, was visiting from England. Spring sprung upon the country and apologized for her tardiness with a splendid, warm weekend, so we took to the park for some portraits. […]

Seamus’ birthday (and workshop move)

For his birthday, my friend Seamus asked that we help him move his workshop into a new space he’d rented. Way to party, dude. The space was an abandoned primary school attached to a still-functioning daycare centre. The school looked marvellous; lots of floors connected by spiral staircases, loads of open space that begged to […]

Paula & Jackie’s: Good Craic in Belfast

On a rainy Thursday, a day before the area was snowblocked (leaving me stranded with my mum and brother, first at Granny’s tiny pensioners apartment, and then at the gracious newlyweds’ delightful abode) Paula Vance became Mrs. Jackie Hunter. My (massive) Northern Irish family has been talking about little else for weeks now and the […]

35mm street shooting

An early birthday present to myself, on behalf of my partner, was the superb Sigma 35mm F/1.4 lens. Brilliantly sharp even at its widest aperture, it has displaced (and I don’t say this lightly) my Canon 85mm f/1.2 as my very favorite lens. The 35mm angle of view is a classic for street photography, but […]

Portraits 2012

Another year, another multitude of portraits. Here’s some select work from the last year.

Pasar Malam

Dad decided to celebrate his birthday at the Pasar Malam, an Indonesian market, which was held at Burger’s Zoo. He helped an old friend run her stall, where she sold hand-made batik clothing and ornaments for the benefit of Indonesian schools. The market was set up across several floors in the zoo’s tropics habitat, so […]

Comparing Photo Formats: Raw vs DNG vs TIFF vs JPG… and GIF.

First of all: don’t smoke, kids. I’m genuinely trying to quit. I chose this photo as a good testbed for today’s mission: to compare the perceivable quality, or more concretely the loss in image data, between common photo storage file types. It’s a contentious issue that’s flared up every few years since the dawn of […]

Rogacion Family

Yesterday I travelled to Hoofddorp for a cozy indoor session with the Rogacion family. My host, Dennis Rogacion, picked me up and immediately took a one-hour detour to pick up his brother’s family as well, which is technically cheating but they promised to make me lunch and, people, I’m not made of stone. Not when […]

Saint Nicholas’ Day

Here’s how it is. Every year Saint Nicholas, also known as Sinterklaas, visits Holland to distribute presents to all the good children of the land. His birthday is on December 6, but on December 5 all the sweet Dutch kids eagerly await his visit and the presents that go along with it. It’s a national […]

Pampus Fort Island

A few weeks ago, David and I visited the small island of Pampus, a fortress created in the 19th century to defend against German ships that, it later turned out, never proved to be a threat anyway. This fort never saw real action, just thousands of extremely bored soldiers. The island has a caretaker who […]