Keeth France Photos

I am of the view that we are into the best photo shooting days of this year. I must be a crazy man because rain is falling ever so often and then there is no sunlight for hours ... not that some of today's digital photographers need any natural light, because most of them seem to tote their artificial sunlight in a metal can powered from a battery. I do not wish to sound anything but pleasant, but I have a suspicion that many of these modern 'photographers' can't handle the Natural light. I could be wrong, but I see nothing that points me in any other direction but to draw this conclusion. I am also of the view that any light than can be obtained from a metal can powered by a battery, should be supplementary to the main light source, but that is my view, and I believe that I may have a few 'old' and 'older' photographers in my corner. No direct sunlight is good for my photography, with the zone system thrown in. I guess zone system photography is still ...

Yesterday evening I felt like walking about. I have not walked into the City for a while, day or night, and it is a shame, because I guesstimate my front door to be about 999 meters or so from the City center. Ten minutes at a saunter and I am at the Berkley Memorial, the heart of the City ... but it takes twice that time to walk back up the gentle hill to my chateau. Why do I drive the half mile into the City, drive around for 10 minutes looking for a parking spot, can't find any Free parking, so I drive back home and park the car, then walk back down into the City. Some crazy world we live in these days. Is it us or is it the world? So minutes to seven finds me sauntering down into the City, with a weighty camera bag on shoulder. I though about carrying the monopod, but that was too heavy, so I am shooting "podless" tonight. I have now taken to shooting after dark without tripod or a sturdy support, and to make matters worst I am shooting hand held. In coming around t...

Smiling seems to be inappropriate for photos these days. I think it may have more to do with the times that we live in than anything else. I could be wrong, but given the daily pressure of life and living for most of us, it is easy for us to develop the frown lines, and once our facial skin is creased up it may not be so easy to press out. Smiling hard may not even force the muscles to exert enough stretch to smooth out the skin, so you can really be smiling your butt off and you still appear frowning. As the young people does say these days "this is some serious s**t". I am not going to get into any discussion on the why frowning seems to be the accepted facial expression now-a-days, and if you are one of the unfortunate persons who still can smile, please be careful, because it is a fact that some people in the "non-smiling community" does take offence with those who can, and some grievous bodily harm could result in extreme cases.  I do not think that would appl...

Every now and then you get called out of a very "intoxicating" dream to be told that something photographically momentous is happening. 28th June 2010 was one of those nights that I went to bed early, before 10.00 PM. It is said that drinking Soursop bush tea helps one to sleep peacefully, and I needed to do that, but I am not going to draw the tea so strong that I sleep for a week. My herbal tea leaves don't come in bags. My Soursop tree grows eleven feet away from my computer room door, so when I feel like "drugging up" myself I pick three leaves and put them in my Black & Decker VersaBrew DCM1300 device. I am not into this one tea bag in a cup of hot water story, that is too much 'drugs' for my three score plus body, which I am trying to take the best care of. So for me, it is one tea bag in 12 cups of water, 60 ounces according to the B&D VersaBrew,  or three Soursop tree leaves. So I was rudely awakened from a dream which I was beginning t...