September 15, 2011 – 5:03 pm
I started a blog post about my packing list for the Antarctica expedition in November this year and quickly realised that it was going to be a very long list indeed. So, rather than try and squeeze it into a single post I am breaking up the list into different components to make it a [...]
September 2, 2011 – 8:16 am
Each month the International Aperture Accademy features a selected individual professional photographer on their website in the form of a question and answer interview. It is an opportunity to hear what other professional photographers have to say on various topics as well as being an outlet for them to tell their personal story and discuss [...]
By jholko
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Posted in Antarctica, Australia, Iceland, New Zealand, News and Updates, Photographs, Tasmania, Travel Photography
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Also tagged Landscape, Nature, Photography, Photography Software, Wilderness, Wildlife
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September 1, 2011 – 1:43 pm
A Diary Date to Note: If you are attending Photo Plus in October this year in New York please be sure to get along and see the good folks at Moab and Legion Paper; who will be displaying a number of Fine Art prints from their Moab Masters including my Gold Award winning Australian Professional [...]
August 22, 2011 – 12:00 pm
I realised this morning it is now only three months until I leave for Antarctica with Quark Expeditions; which means it is definitely time to get a wriggle on in terms of a packing list and preperation. I have a pretty good idea already on what I plan to take with me but I still [...]
Last year I schlepped my 17″ Macbook Pro, power pack and accessories all the way from Australia to Iceland (along with 25+ kilograms of camera equipment). I learnt an important lesson from this exercise: I should not have purchased a 17″ laptop for field work (international or otherwise); a 15″ would have been more than [...]
In Part One of this article I talked about the problem of wildnerness photography in relation to how to comfortably carry equipment into the field on extended hikes and some of the problems I have encountered over the years. I also talked some more about the Gura Gear Kiboko camera bag now that I have [...]
GURA GEAR AND THE XTRA-HAND PHOTO VEST I will endeavour to never again make the comment to my wife that she owns too many handbags for the simple reason (as she so eloquently pointed out to me; while I was busy pointing the finger) that I own more camera bags than she does handbags. That [...]
The good folks over at Moab have an update on their blog about one of my prints that took out a Gold award at this year’s APPA awards (Australian Professional Photography Awards). The print (in fact all four of my APPA prints) were all made on Moab Somerset Museum Rag paper; which is my absolute [...]
One of my recent purchases that I was very keen to test out in the South Island of New Zealand in Winter was the new Seal Skins gloves I purchased online just before I left Australia. In Part One of this mini-review I made mention that it has been a constant search for the perfect [...]
For as long as I have been into landscape, nature and wilderness photography I have been searching for the perfect gloves for outdoor winter photography. The problem has been that I have struggled to find gloves that are waterproof, yet are thin enough to retain enough ‘feel’ to enable me to use my camera equipment [...]
Those of you who follow any of the internets Camera Rumours websites (some of them make quite entertaining reading with liberal sprinkling of salt) will have read everything from a proposed release date of tomorrow to never for the hotly anticipated Canon 1DS MKIV. The proposed specifications are as varied as the theoretical release dates [...]
April 11, 2011 – 11:31 pm
My apologies if updates have been a bit few and far between over the last few weeks. I have been pretty snowed under at the office and have not had much time for photography (I can feel the withdrawal creeping up on me); either out in the field, or behind my computer processing images. That [...]
Moab have added a brief blog post to their website on my upcoming exhibition – printed entirely on my favourite new paper – Somerset Museum Rag paper. Somerset Museum Rag is the newest paper by the acclaimed St Cuthberts Mill in England, who over a decade ago helped create an entire industry when it launched [...]
Antarctica is now less than nine months away and I am already starting to seriously think about what to take with me in the way of equipment as well as how to plan for the trip. Outside of the obvious must take items such as warm clothes, layers of goretex, dramamine, ipod, camera gear and [...]
October 11, 2010 – 10:56 am
After spending so much time photographing icebergs in Iceland on the black sand beaches in July and August this year it was really wonderful to get back onto some golden Australian sand for some local photography. It was really enjoyable to just spend a couple of days driving down the Great Ocean road again through [...]
August 27, 2010 – 10:20 am
Canon has posted more information on the new 300mm F2.8L IS II USM and 400mm F2.8L IS II USM super telephoto lenses as well as the new 1.4x TC MKIII and 2x TC MKIII tel-extenders on their Digital Learning website. It may be hard to believe that it’s been more than a decade since Canon introduced [...]
August 26, 2010 – 4:05 pm
TOKYO, August 26, 2010 — Canon Inc. announced today that it is developing two new telephoto lenses for use with its EOS lineup of single-lens reflex cameras — the EF500mm f/4L IS II USM and EF600mm f/4L IS II USM — and will display prototypes at the photokina 2010 photography and imaging industry trade fair [...]
August 26, 2010 – 4:02 pm
Canon introduces Six New L-Series EF Lenses And Accessories Canon Introduces the World’s Widest Fisheye Zoom Lens, a New Telephoto Zoom Lens and Two New Super Telephoto Lenses with Optional New Extenders LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., August 26, 2010 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, rounds out its Summer product introductions with four [...]
August 20, 2010 – 3:00 pm
Now that I am back from Iceland and I have had some time to recover from jet lag and reflect on the trip it seems worthwhile to report on exactly ‘what worked’ and ‘what didn’t work’ both from a photographic and travel perspective as well as general debrief on the trip. Firstly a preamble: I [...]
Upsetting customs officials when you first enter a foreign country is never a good idea. Yet, this is something I almost achieved last year in the South Island of New Zealand when I got pinged for packing my favourite trekking boots in a rather dirty state. Lesson learned – Never pack a pair of dirty [...]
