Keeth France Photos

No!! I am not missing-in-action nor am I missing any action. I purposefully missed posting here in May, but I did not miss any action or activity in May. I felt that I should not upset the viewers who are allergic to bright colours like RED. May is a RED month for some people. Some wear it on their back, while others just "see" it, and some may even get traumatized by it [because they want to], and the smattering of yellow between the red in any crowd, really makes for a good snap. But it does far more than that. It tells me that we are much better than we know we are, and can really live in peace and harmony, irrespective of our differences, political or otherwise. It shows too that we are in our lane, and we just need to STAY in our lane, not cause any ruckus, and all will be well in SKN. But we love drama, and without it we do not seem to be happy. We are now into the holiday months until 2013. Every month of the year following Easter we have a holiday, holidays and hol...

L et us pray that we do not get any Independence hurricane this year. I read in the papers that there are some political jokers praying for hurricane, and I hope that they and their families are totally hurricane proof. Everyone knows that the hurricane season peak is August to September, and for our Country it seems to be in September and just before our Independence celebrations. Should we or should we not fault the politicians for foisting this upon us? When people have the politics for breakfast, lunch and dinner, nothing else comes before then, ever, so we are stuck with the added excitement of peak hurricane activity along side our Independence celebrations. But people in our country seem to like excitement and may be really enjoying it, up to a point. Bizarre as it may appear to be. As I scribe this the remnants of Gaston are out to our East and coming straight at us. This time around I am not hearing the 'experts' saying that this weather will hit us, or pass by us, a...

There is no place for politics in my photography. The fact that I may be a Labour Party and a Government supporter has nothing to do with my photography.  If I like what I see and feel like capturing that image, click!. If I do not like what I see, and feel like capturing that image, click!! Something looking good, looking not-so-good, and looking bad, are subjective conclusions drawn by people, and may be determined by the nature, more like the colour, of their day. So our photography really have nothing to do with any politics. I am a free agent and caption my photos as I wish. It is my decision whether or not to caption any photo. It is also my right to change, update and delete any caption, on any photo at any time and whenever I feel like doing so. When something is yours, you are free to do with it whatsoever you please ... up to a point. I am not going to present any argument, legal or otherwise, nor entertain any discussion on the last sentence. Many essays are availabl...

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...

Another week has gone by. Last week it was May and next week it is July. You sure somebody not playing around with a time machine? Maybe what you see on syfy these days could be the real thing, but they have to make it look like fantasy until we get comfortable with it, then someone somewhere will seek to reveal and expose, sparking controversy and discussion, and somebody[s] will make a million dollars on the side. Orchestration and management are best buddies, but you are not to small to try-a-thing in your corner of the world, the problem is that your partner-in-crime is going to want 51% from your idea, and if you are not careful it is back to Cain and Abel again. It works every time.. So what is happening in this corner. Photographically. I am not getting to "continue" with some blogs, but you really don't want all the details so no big thing there, and I am supposed to be posting photos not keeping up any long talk ... but I like letting off. The problem today is ...

Let me first publicly thank my Facebook photographer brothers and sisters for tagging me in their photos. I feel honored ... but since they have opened the door and invited me into their photography, I cannot resist the temptation to make a few positive comments on and about the "tagged photos" and the photography. Constructive criticism is positive feedback, but many of our Caribbean people still can't handle that, especially when the comments are made in public, or in private and then later publicized. I do not critique nor do I provide constructive criticism. I am not in any position to asses your creative photographic expression and presentation, but I can have a view as to how I would re-work a presentation, to my taste. It is not unlike some tasty Caribbean food, to which some folks just have to add "hot pepper sauce" to zap it up to their taste. I think you catch where I am coming from. Next, let me also thank the viewers to my Facebook photo albums, th...

I was just perusing an old blog from last month with snaps made after dark, and it occurred to me that none of these pictures have been doctored or "touched up" in any way by Photoshop or Lightroom. I am now asking myself why do I have the Adobe Creative Suite and even Lightroom 3, when I am using the image straight from the "set-it-and-forget-it" RAW image converting software. I guess that I have this top-of-the-line and cutting-edge-software so that I can be like a "Jones", or maybe a friend of the "Jones's", or maybe I should just be able to say that I have it, as not having it might make me a lesser entity in the photographic eyes of the world. So as a typical Caribbean person I just can't have my money sitting there and I am not getting anything from it, so I may now have to see about 'getting my money's worth' from these software ... but herein lies the dilemma. I don't know if it is because I may be old and somewh...

You often hear people say "he who feels it knows it" and we usually agree. It is not that we have ever been in that person's shoes, nor even anywhere near to them kind of shoes. We all have our own shoes to wear and "cross to bear" as we sojourn on planet earth, accompanied by the complains we have to make about life, irrespective of how good it is to us. I think that life is more than fair to the most of us, but when we seek to extract over and above what we have put in, and it is not readily forthcoming, we like to bawl foul. It is a people thing, one of the many things that we come and meet and will go and leave behind. In life there comes a time when one may has to unlearn and relearn, and many of us don't take to kindly to that, especially when we are in and above the "mid-life" zone. Mid-life I put at 35, half-way to the three-score and ten promised in the "Bible" [KJV]. I was around when computers were introduced into the workpla...

I must be dong something very wrong when more than one or two or three persons on Facebook find to ask me what camera I am using to take the pictures that are posted to my Facebook photo albums. If I was doing the right thing I believe that nobody would have asked at all. I am of the view that my photos are looking normal even though I have not run them through Photoshop or Lightroom, which seem to be hailed as the professional photographic software that separate the men from the boys, or rather the professionals from the amateurs and/or whoever else, in the field of photographic reproduction. I am just making a 'comeback' into photography and really don't have the time to tangle with Photoshop and its alleged steep learning curve. I still have to learn why I must use Photoshop to alter the reality captured by my camera. Nature has spoken, but the thinking seems to be that Nature has erred and we must therefore fix it, to what we believe to be the right thing. I could see...