Light and Shadow never stand still, they are always dancing together. The camera is like a portal that offers an entrance into another world. We don’t see everything around us, that’s a fact. We make choices, often unconscious choices that filter everything for us. I love apples. They are tasty and they are healthy to […]
How to improve Your Still Life Photography using Fruit and Flowers
Fruit and flowers in still life photography doesn’t sound like you’re thinking outside the box, but it is the doorway that leads you into the first room full of doors in improving your still life photography. The first thing to think about is yourself. Be very honest about what you really enjoy photographing. This will […]
How to Get to the Heart of Your Story
Telling good stories is challenging work. Even seasoned writers, famously known for their prowess with the pen, still have to work extremely hard to make their next story shine. What makes a story ‘shine’? How do we ensure that readers are carried along through the winding roads of a good story, and don’t close the […]
Time and Imagination through a Camera
To walk, explore, and traverse the streets, the imagination dips in and out of light and shadow, objects loom, then pass as my feet march through time. The city is time. The people are time. They all know it, they watch it, and I watch it too. I have a machine that captures time. Stop and […]
The Key to Making Nasty Villains Likeable in Your Fiction
If we like the villain, surely that means we are bad, doesn’t it? Many beginning writers feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of techniques, devices, and so on, that they should remember when all they wanted was to write an enjoyable story. I always find that if I focus on character, I’ll stay on the […]
Portrait Photography, Baffled Looks and Musings
I love a good portrait photograph. The play of light, the deep shadow, and the ability to manipulate both with a tweak and the shift of the lights. I always come from my own experiences of art when it comes to doing a portrait. I’m pretty stubborn, a portrait must have those classical touches that […]
The Premise of a Good Story
When you sit down and write a short story, and it flows from your fingers as if your fingers are magic wands, writing is good. Often, when we tackle a new topic, a new character, and want something different, it can start well, but then the flow stems into a bottle neck of ideas that cause […]
The Thing that Happened to My Snooping Neighbour
Rustling paper, tearing, ripping, followed by the flop of a heavy envelope landing on my desk made me realise that I wasn’t really alone in my little room. I had just woken up. It was deepest winter and my whole body, including my head, was hidden under the Swedish quilt that was big enough to […]