Feet, heads and bellybuttons

      Is India the next photo-destination? Just a few hours of watching the Diwali festival in Auckland I think it is! The colourful Diwali festival are a feast for a shutter! Have a look yourself!

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resisting the iPhone...getting harder and harder!

When it comes to taking photos new smartphones are a blessing: calculate the sunrise and sunset times in a minute, get that DOF and make some notes of locations. Real help! But...

Photo fashion

 I'm definitely not the fashionable one. Outdoor gear and bulky camera bag hardly comes as 'fashionable' in a city... Fashion becomes enslaved by practicality, protection and comfort. Instead I usually laugh at 'badly' coordinated fashion - or people who spent heaps on most ridiculous (i.e. uncomfortable and impractical) overpriced rugs - I mean top-brand fashion items.

Travel flash

 Traveling often means indoor photography or trying to take a portrait in a harsh daylight... One of the options is using a flash. We all know the limits of the build-in flashes - even on the most expensive cameras. And most of external flashes are intimidatingly big...