The Colors of India and Nepal...



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"This is Holi" - India

The Journey Through Color & Time continuous very soon with our first Photography Workshops to India and Nepal, starting on the 17th of March, 14 days of adventure and pure color.

The two workshops are fully booked, but if you interested you can already make a reservation for our Sri Lanka and India Workshop in 2012 or choose some of the other workshops in our Calendar for 2011 and 2012.


SRI LANKA - INDIA 2012
February 26 - March 9, 2012
A unique itinerary has been work on which takes you to unusual places in India and Sri Lanka in 2012. More details and the full itinerary will be available by mid April 2011.

Please Note: We only travel in small groups between 8 to 10 participants max. on all published destinations, providing you the full attention of Gunther Deichmann, making these workshops very personal and a fulfilling experience for you.

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Getting ready for the Holi Festival - India

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Color, color and more color - Nepal



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Monastery Colors - Nepal

Yes, time has changed for all of us over the years, and I often get ask how I have adopted to the digital age. My answer is quiet simple; I shoot the same way I always have, it is not the equipment, but your eyes, feelings and mind that creates the ultimate image.
Essentially, I have made no changes on how I approach and create images today. My approach and my soul are the same, and as is my philosophy about light and color. - GD -

Is this the last Fish?
The story behind the image...



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"Is this the last Fish?" Manila - Philippines

A recent assignment took me to the Fish port of Manila...I visited the place many years ago and not much had changed over the years...except for the catch!

A lot less fish...amongst them juvenile species like Tuna, etc. not like before, mountains of fish...I started to think if this was just a bad day or the fish stocks getting depleted, but that we can figure out some other time.

Then of a sudden... I slipped, landing almost on my butt...oops...I looked around and there was this squashed fish right behind me...the culprit for me loosing my balance for a moment.

Hmm, this looks interesting, I took a few frames giving me the headline Idea..."Is this the last Fish?', now you might think this is a real fishy tale but it is indeed very true and you better believe me.

It was an interesting night, working only with available light and the Nikon D700 at ISO 400 plus the Nikon 50mm f:1.4 Lens. No Flash... no Photoshop! A few hours later I edited all the images in Aperture 3.1 and uploaded them into my PhotoShelter Archives & Gallery, check out (only 69 Photos) from the evenings take and CLICK this LINK or the Image above.

Besides the smell outside the loading area which was out of this world...WOW!!!. We had an interesting evening, finishing the night off with Hubert and Arj over some cold beers at the Cave Wine Bar.

BTW...my rubber shoes I wore that evening still getting fumigated...
GD

The story behind the Image...


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"The Wild One" Queensland, Australia, Kodachrome 25 ASA

“The Wild One”, Queensland, Australia 1984. I had been assigned to cover Australia’s National Parks for a publisher to do a book called “Australia’s National Wonders”. On the way to this amazing rock formation I picked up this hitchhiker. We started a conversation and I told her that I give her a lift to the next town but had to go first to this Park with this rock formation.
I ask her if she would mind posing as a model for some additional shots…sure, that’s OK!” she said, but what am I going to wear? I only have my Jeans and T-shirt on me and there are no stores out here.
Then I had this idea…we pulled up on gas station and I bought some leather chamois for cleaning the windshield.
Once we arrived at my location a few hour later (remember vast distances in Australia) I sat down and started to work ripping the chamois to pieces, roughed it up with some rocks and used my trusty Swiss army knife for the final touches creating a brand new outfit for her.
A true story and the image is the outcome of that effort.
Kodachrome 25 ASA, 200mm f:2.8 lens
GD

Your Camera
Doesn't Matter
© 2009 Ken Rockwell

In respect for Ken Rockwell and the rightful owner of the copyright of this article I am only posting today the LINK to this fantastic article...it is some thing I firmly believe in and I totally agree with...check out the complete and cool article including quotes by Ernst Hass, Ansel Adams and many others.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/notcamera.htm

Thank you Ken for the excellent and very open no thrills article! I totally agree.
GD

Latest up-date for GD PhotoWorkshops in Asia...



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Yangon, Myanmar/Burma - BTW shot with Kodachrome 25 ASA

We have just updated the Calendar for the GD Photo Workshops, new info on Vietnam for May 2011and
for September/October 2011 Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar, now you can join us on all three destinations with a stopover in Bangkok for two days. Itineraries and cost available upon request please register at this LINK.

For more details please go to the Calendar at the GD PhotoWorkshop site or Click this LINK

Please Note: Bookings for Laos and Cambodia are almost full we have only 2 more spots available more detailed info on the Calendar.

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Mekong Delta, Vietnam - BTW shot with Kodachrome 25 ASA

Please note, we only travel in small groups between 8 to 10 participants on all published destinations, providing you the full attention of Gunther Deichmann, making these workshops very personal and a fulfilling experience for you. Once you have Registered without any obligation we get in touch with you direct via email and provide you all the details.
GD

First week in 2011...iLike.

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Reflections in Pushkar Rajasthan, India

The first week in the New Year is gone, behind me my son's Birthday and his passing of the Apple exam as an APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL v10.6. not a bad start for him in the New Year.

I had lots of meetings, caught up with some good friends and shot the biggest Swiss Cheese ever at Werdenberg Corporation yesterday… the size of a truck wheel, no kidding… and I really don’t like cheese.

The new Apple App Store is out there now and I found some interesting and very useful Apps, a nice and organized Store with everything under one roof.
Three of them I can recommend already of which two of them are for Free, my good friend Tony Wu put me onto the first one called Alfred very slick, I have integrated Albert now in to my family…Albert does a great Job in finding things in a jiffy and uses a nice big font. Try it out, you have nothing to loose it is for free.
The other one, which could come in very handy in some situations, is RemoteSnapServer… but where would you use it, you might ask, ok let me explain.

For example if you’re running a company and a faulty product was delivered with your last shipment then you use your iPhone take a quick shot and RemoteSnap Server transfers your images direct to your Mac Desktop, nicely tucked away in a folder keeping your iPhone free with these type of images from work.
But you can use it also just for fun at home sending your Kiddy and party photos direct to your Mac keeping your Phone uncluttered with happy snaps.

No cables or connecting you camera it is all done via Wi-fi…of course you have to have that…I run a good test drive yesterday and it works like a charm. Try it out; another cool free application, which could came in very handy now and then.

The other nice one I like a lot is iMovie designed for the iPhone 4, an excellent application, and a very nice addition for your iPhone 4. I had a good play around with this one, of course it has its limitations if you compare it with its bigger Brother but it does a real neat Job with your iPhone’s HD camera and in no time you put a slick looking Video together.

It has build in themes, trim your clip, move frames, add stills and create a nice slideshow, add text and use your iTunes Library for the sound. After you’re done it gives you some options for exporting in different sizes or just transfer the clip to your Mac and watch it in full size.

Easy to learn and fun to play with, in due time I will post a video created with iMovie for the iPhone.
So there you have it, catching up with some friends which iLike, the iWine at the Cave Bar or better known now as the iBar, all these things which iLike in the first week of the New Year.

In the coming weeks I am going to test also the newly released Nikon 24 to 120mm f:4 Zoom Lens and post a review afterwards. This newly designed Nikon lens has received some excellent reviews already on the web.

This Workshop is fully booked, for other options in
2011 and 2012 click the image or this LINK

Now I am finalizing everything for our India and Nepal GD Photo Workshop that starts in March. This one is fully booked and I am sure all the participants are very excited including myself and lets face it March is only around the corner.

I case you missed it we have updated our GD Photo Workshop site and finalized all the dates with some very cool destinations for 2011 and 2012.
Check it out and CLICK THIS LINK.

Next week is equally crazy with visitors from abroad and more meetings, but that’s the way iLike it.
GD