Amanda | December 20, 2011
Would you like to start the new year with learning and photography projects to get your creative juices flowing for 2012? A new year always gets me yearning to start something new. Set yourself off on the right foot and start the year in a creative way with me! The first Shoot By Design: Refining [...]
Amanda | December 16, 2011
Back in the summer, when friends came to town…when the sun was shining and high overhead. I shot them with my Holga and Kodak Portra medium format film. Speaking of film, this week, the lovely Daniella interviewed me for her ‘For The Love of Film’ series on her blog. You can read it here. Thanks [...]
Amanda | December 10, 2011
It’s no secret that my passion lies in film, but I must admit that I have been thoroughly enjoying using Instagram of late. I don’t love the look of the filters or the crappy quality of my phone images to say the least, but I really love the “instantness” of the app. There is a [...]
Amanda | December 7, 2011
And a ho! ho! ho! to you… Here’s something a little different for me. I’ve been teaching my Shoot By Design course participants to step out of their comfort zones and I really should practise what I preach, right? So here I am with some darker images with no natural light in sight. I didn’t [...]
Amanda | November 29, 2011
Why do we take pictures? We take photographs to make the old new. We make pictures to create a possibility out of the impossible. Or is that an impossibility out of the possible? To make stars out of lights, bubbles out of shadows and rock stars out of ordinary people. To climb, to create, to [...]
Amanda | November 25, 2011
In the past 6 months, I’ve worked hard at my first online photography e course, Shoot By Design: Refining Your Photography Style and I have realised that what started out as me wanting to share some of my knowledge and find a process to have a more in-depth way to answer some of those email [...]
Amanda | November 24, 2011
Here’s a little something I made for your Thursday. I hope you enjoy it. Music: There Is a Number of Small Things by múm. And after a long hiatus, I’ve opened up the print store again. You can find many of my images from 2011 in the store and a couple of old favourites too. [...]
Amanda | November 22, 2011
Some decadence in black and white. Lately… I’ve been listening to a lot of her and her and him. Reading this beautiful book. Snuggling in my new cowl by Ozetta. Enjoying the photography of Marcos Rivas. Lusting over these woolly goods. Thinking this would work on my wall. Salivating over this cosy brand of pjs [...]
