Leica X1: A Small Pocketable Gem with a Big Heart

© Andy Westlake

New Year’s Greetings!

On a noble quest to reinvent a tradition, Leica AG made a surprising move with three of their latest products. It is an expensive bet they are making, and…

This was a Canon & This is the G12

Camera then, was all hardware features and functions. All purpose were geared towards crafting out the most useful light-capturing steel-box man can make. This was an early rendition of what camera is:

Soul of Africa

© Andrew Brauteseth

Andrew Brauteseth, photographer:

I try ‘herd’ these ideas and impressions through the production until I’ve landed on the shots I want. I guess it’s a bit like cooking. There’s no exact recipe, but it helps to have the best…

Island of the Spirits by John Stanmeyer

update: link to video & behind-the-scenes gallery added.

Bali, the quintessence of a rich spiritual & cultural community is empirically known throughout her history as the land where people come as tourists, but often leaving as…

iCarl iZeiss iPhone 4

ImageOptim: Free Image Optimization App for Mac

Straightforward, highly efficient, Open Source & Free Image Optimization tool for Mac OS X.

Not much use these days, but can be handy when you need to manually upload photos for the web and email. For a real life example…