The daily project moves towards Year 3.

In true Amsterdam style it started off with a big bang, well many loud bangs of course!

More fireworks here

I recently spent a few days in Paris wandering around with my camera. I have travelled through Paris often, but this is the first time in a long time that I surfaced from the metro and explored the city.

I have hundreds of photos to edit but my favourites were these night shots: Paris Nocturne

I am not a morning person, but getting up early is so much easier when the light is this beautiful: Paris Morning

Here are a few shots taken on my iPhone

More shots of Paris here

Street Photography road trip to ghost town Doel, Belgium

It was somewhat unusual to do street photography in a ghost town.

The village of Doel is scheduled for demolition. It will make way for an expansion of the Port of Antwerp. Amongst the boxy newer houses are beautiful ancient houses which manage to hold their beauty in the face of dereliction.

Street Photography 19

We ventured out of Amsterdam and spent a great afternoon in Utrecht.

A recent trip to Berlin with my new 50D.

Really pleased with the camera, much easier to get the right exposure - hardly any post processing adjustments to make.

live at Westerpark Lenny Kravitz

100 | Leidsestraat

My daily photo project is still going strong since September 2007

When I first saw the spec on the iPhone camera, I thought I would just use it for capturing photo notes, business cards and so on.

One day I was in my neighbourhood looking for a new take on familiar sights, when I decided to see how far I could push my iPhone's camera. I was really surprised at the results.

It is so easy to bedistracted by advanced features, which lens to use and what settings. A very basic camera like the iPhones leaves you with 2 options:
1. Move yourself to adjust the focal length.
2. Compose shot.

Caveat: The images will not be printable beyond 3x4 and you do need the assistance of a few in-phone apps to polish off the pictures.

My iPhone photography is available on my tumblr.

We had an amazingly hot and sunny day for our last photowalk. Not a cloud in the sky. Great weather for sun-bathers - a bit bright for an afternoon of photography. I could have gone with my regular lens and got some very high contrast shots but I decided to leave my new Lensbaby on and just go with the blown highlights. There weren't too many keepers, but thanks to the bright light, I did get plenty of practice at framing and manually focusing fast.

As always it's good to hang out with a crowd of people who don't mind talking cameras - even if there were just a few keepers.

Just got my first Lensbaby and I can't put it down. It's the Composer, with the double glass optic. I also got the wide angle converter.

Plus I have had to buy some extra lens caps. In the 4 years that I've had my DSLR, I had never lost a lens cap. Until now. Lensbaby caps seem destined to end up in the canal. I think it is their recessed design which means that you pinch inside instead of on the outside - when you squeeze off a regular lens cap your palm is more open and therefore more ready to catch hold of the cap.

These are my favourite shots so far and there are more shots here.