By Sabrina on January 27, 2012
Two years after returning from my African safari, my sister requested a large canvas for a big wall space. Finally a piece of my work that would hang in her beautifully decorated home
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By Sabrina on July 4, 2010
Let me preface this by saying Steve McCurry doesn’t need me to defend to him; this is more a defence of the idea behind the work he is about to embark on
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By Sabrina on July 2, 2010
First of all I would like to thank Sabrina for inviting me to write a guest post on her blog. It is not easy for me to write about myself, but we thought sharing a few small success stories might encourage and motivate others.
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By Sabrina on May 7, 2010
This has been an exciting week for me with the launch of “The Chronicles of Learning Photography“. We’ve been able to attract 100 people and seen some sharing and learning already taking place. It’s the kind of stuff that really excites me. As a thank you, I have something special to announce today.
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By Sabrina on March 11, 2010
Norm, the computer guy, dropped by my desk the other day. Every office has a Norm–a likeable, geeky guy who speaks the Truth without even realizing it. He saw my new photo canvas of the leopard in a tree and commented how a picture like that could have been taken in a zoo.
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By Sabrina on March 3, 2010
Most, if not all, photographers know about Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive moment”. To loosely paraphrase, it’s a fleeting slice of time when as a photographer, your eye and camera are synchronized by intuition to capture something that once it passes, is forever lost.
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By Sabrina on March 2, 2010
As I mentioned yesterday I am nearing the end of my posts dedicated to my African safari. I’m sure you’ve all had your fill over the past five weeks and you are ready to move on with me. I thought I’d wrap things up with a slideshow of my images some of which you will [...]
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By Sabrina on March 1, 2010
A really quick post this morning…I am coming to the end of the initial processing of my images from Africa. It has been slow going for several reasons, one of which is that I am trying to learn Lightroom and integrate it into my workflow.
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By Sabrina on February 26, 2010
Today–well last night really–Dave Delnea released his much anticipated eBook through the Craft & Vision store. Titled Below The Horizon, Understanding Light at the Edges of Day, this eBook will get you excited about shooting when no-one’s around at first light or when most people have packed up and headed home after the sun’s gone down.
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By Sabrina on February 25, 2010
young male lion maasai mara, kenya
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By Sabrina on February 24, 2010
You’ve all heard it before. “Take nothing but pictures…leave nothing but footprints“. If you subscribe to this way of thinking then a socially responsible photographic safari might be for you. To tell you the truth, it wasn’t the “socially responsible” part of the trip that attracted me as much as the “photographic” part but when you get [...]
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By Sabrina on February 23, 2010
Last month on my blog I mentioned I was invited to be part of a very special project Images without Borders. This week I am chuffed to be one of the featured photographers on their website along with Craig Ferguson, an Asia-based photographer from Australia.
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By Sabrina on February 22, 2010
I am breaking into the “feel good” programming of the last few weeks with a posting on gear. If you prefer not to read my safari gear report, feel free to take a nap.
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By Sabrina on February 19, 2010
Date: October 5, 2009 From: Ryan Snider Subject: Krista meet Sabrina Message: You two will be sharing a tent on the January photo safari (2 beds) and should feel free to email one another…I think you two will get along really well!
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By Sabrina on February 18, 2010
In yesterday’s post I mentioned that we made an unscheduled visit to a Maasai village; here’s the full story. The day before five of us clambered into a van best-suited for three shooters and we had had a decidedly mediocre shoot.
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By Sabrina on February 17, 2010
Not a long post today, folks but always a photo This image was taken at an impromptu visit to a Maasai Village but more on that tomorrow. Today I wanted to share an image that I processed using Lightroom and Photoshop.
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By Sabrina on February 16, 2010
Pssst…want to know a little secret? Sometimes those amazing images of people taken by professionals require hard work by someone other than the photographer. Not to downplay the talent of the photographer but I never appreciated the kind of system that is sometimes needed to help create an image.
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By Sabrina on February 15, 2010
As some of you know might know, I don’t photograph people. Every aspect of shooting people I find scary or overwhelming or both. I always feel that the expectations people have of what they want to look like in a photograph can never be met.
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By Sabrina on February 12, 2010
It was great to have company on my lone tree post yesterday; thanks everyone! If you haven’t checked out the links in the Comments yet, I encourage you to do so. My safari mate, Beate Dalbec, blogged three of her lone tree images from our trip
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By Sabrina on February 11, 2010
What is it with us photographers and lone trees? When I was down in Oregon on Bryan Peterson’s workshop last fall, there was a beautiful oak tree in the middle of a field. We couldn’t contain our excitement as we lined up to shoot it with the sun behind. Fast forward to last month.
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By Sabrina on February 10, 2010
running gnus on our walking safari
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By Sabrina on February 9, 2010
The opportunity to see the Maasai Mara from the air was just too good to pass up. We imagined floating a few hundred feet over the open plains with nothing to obstruct our view of the herds of elephants, zebras, antelope, and the like. Breathtaking, right?
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By Sabrina on February 8, 2010
This week I thought I’d post some landscapes from my trip. For the most part, I used my 70-300 mm lens but once in a while I pulled out the Sigma 10-20 mm or my kit 18-55 mm kit lens to capture the vastness of space around us. On a safari we all want to [...]
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By Sabrina on February 5, 2010
It’s Friday and I’m heading home today after some morning meetings. As promised on Twitter last night, today I’m posting my favourite animal image from my Kenyan safari.
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By Sabrina on February 4, 2010
pair of giraffe on our walking safari
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By Sabrina on February 3, 2010
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By Sabrina on February 2, 2010
lone cheetah on the savannah
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By Sabrina on February 1, 2010
vervet monkey: mother and child This week I’m on the road again but it’s all work-related so each day I’ll be posting an image from my safari but not writing too much. I’ve always admired the work of Nick Brandt and Andy Biggs but what I now have is a new found respect for just how [...]
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By Sabrina on January 30, 2010
The list of constaints on a safari are long. You’re usually stuck in a van, shooting through the roof or a partially open window from the road, and as luck would have it, the sun is probably at the wrong angle. Then there’s those pesky animals.
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By Sabrina on January 28, 2010
Part of our day in the city of Nairobi was spent in Kibera. A Nubian word meaning “forest” or “jungle”, Kibera is the second largest urban slum in Africa and said to be the size of 20 football fields and home to at least 800,000 of Nairobi’s residents perhaps even 1 million.
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By Sabrina on January 25, 2010
First let me say thank you to everyone who responded to my post yesterday. Your advice, encouragement and support are like the beads above strung together as part of my photographic journey that make it rich and more beautiful. How’s that for a segue into today’s post!
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By Sabrina on January 24, 2010
Since my return from Kenya a few days ago I’ve been reconnecting with friends and family on Twitter, Facebook, and in person. It’s been a warm welcome home and everyone has expressed excitement at the prospect of seeing the images and hearing my stories. While I am very touched by the interest and enthusiasm, this has made today’s post particularly [...]
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By Sabrina on January 22, 2010
Today is my first day blogging after my return from Kenya and I’m excited to let you all know about the latest eBook from David duChemin. The Inspired Eye 2 is the sequel to The Inspired Eye, both of which explore the creative process. Volume 2 in particular reflects David’s return to film photography as [...]
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By Sabrina on January 11, 2010
One of the things I was hoping to do during my short stay in South Africa was to visit animal centres to learn more about some of the creatures I’d be shooting while in Kenya. On Saturday my family piled into the car and headed north to the Ann van Dyk Cheetah Research Centre for what [...]
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By Sabrina on January 9, 2010
Before you ask, I did leave my vehicle to take this shot; I had to as it was taken with my Sigma 10-20mm. Ever since I took the Vancouver workshop with Bryan Peterson, I’ve loved using this lens. The secret I learnt is
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By Sabrina on January 8, 2010
Learning happens through planned activities but also more serendipitously and not always so pleasantly. I was of two minds whether or not to write about happened over the past 24 hours but as this is a blog about the chronicles of learning, I couldn’t not write about it. At the very least you might have a good laugh [...]
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