Picture a Week (PAW). Week 15: Velvet Watch Tower

Canon EOS 7D. Tamron 24-70 at 24mm. f3.5 @ 30 secs. ISO 100. Ambient light with 3-4 bursts from off camera flash

Picture a Week (PAW) Week 51: Acacircumference

Picture a Week (PAW): Wk 26. Struthio camelus, Addo Elephant National Park

Struthio camelus, Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa.
Canon EOS 7D. Tamron 70-200mm at 200mm. 1/2000 @f4. ISO 100. exposure compensation +1stop 

Picture a Week (PAW): Week 18. Country Church

Canon EOS 7D. Tamron 28-70mm at 30mm. ISO 100. f11 @ 0.3sec

Picture a Week (PAW). Week 14. Cow Time

Canon EOS 7D. Tamron 24-70mm at 24mm. f16@250th sec. ISO 400. +1 exp compensation 

Picture a Week (PAW) : Wk 8. Commemoration Methodist Church. Grahamstown.

Commemoration Methodist Church, High Street, Grahamstown. HDR blended image.

New for the blog: 2015 - Picture a Week (PAW)

Since 2010 I have been sure to be photographing at least every week. Sometimes this is easy, it happens as a matter of course. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes the photographic work that I do is just that - "photographic work that I do". I love photography, but I don't love all photography. A lot of my pictures a week (PAWs) emerge out of what I do for fun. Often, but not always, they emerge out of places where I have no clients to please, no deadlines to meet and no pressure to perform. It is important that I find these spaces and places for without them I run the risk of becoming an unenthusiastic, uninspired and uninspiring photographer. The possibility of this abhors me. So I make sure that I am shooting what I want at least every week and posting a picture. They are all on my website, but this year I've decided to add them to my blog too. Now in its sixth year, it has become a kind of visual diary for me. Like most photographers I remember the times, I remember the mood, I remember the circumstances and I remember my intentions. I hope you remember to come back and have a look at the progress.