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Join Peter Eastway in Svalbard for an Arctic adventure.
Delly Carr is one of the greatest sports photographers on earth. It’s not a stretch to call him the greatest. From humble beginnings in Sydney as the young sports-obsessed son of migrant parents, Delly Carr found his photographic fire on the sidelines of high school rugby matches. That flame was fanned by a bourgeoning entrepreneurial spirit, and the guts of a renegade. He was going to become a sports photographer, but he was going to do it his way. Since Delly captured his first Olympic Games...
Mestia in winter, Caucasus Mountains, GeorgiaPhase One A-Series, IQ3 100MP sensor, 180mm Rodenstock, f11 @ 1/4 second, ISO 50. Dotted around the medieval village of Mestia in the Caucasus Mountains you’ll find dozens of ancient square towers, with smooth stone sides and capped with a wooden platform and roof. The stories are varied. Some say the tower was a defensive structure and when your enemy came knocking, you’d pour boiling oil or drop large rocks on them from the safety of your perch....
Caucasus Mountains, GeorgiaPhase One A-Series, IQ3 100MP sensor, 180mm Rodenstock, f11 @ 1/60 second, ISO 50. I am accused (sometimes rightly) of using a lot of colour in my photography. Disingenuous critics suggest I have a 200% colour saturation slider, but I like to think that when my colour looks saturated, it’s just as much about a commensurate lack of colour in the surroundings. We’re often told to lighten up our subject and darken our background as this draws the viewer’s attention to what’s...
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