Keeth France Photos

I never completed my last blog following the State Funeral of the late Sir Clement Arrindell. Everything proceeded as expected and my camera got "attacked" twice. I believe I made comments elsewhere, maybe in captions of photos in the Facebook album. I am not trying to figure out how five [5] new and charged Camera batteries could all get discharged in shooting under 100 photos in my Canon EOS DSLR camera, when one charged battery usually shoot a few hundred photos. Anyway I had a secret battery [not stored with the working set] for deep emergency and that came to the rescue. In the hour break between Government House and the State Funeral Service at Wesley Methodist Church, all five batteries were recharged. I am not surprised that after charging only one battery was used to cover the rest of the Funeral, and taking more photos than at Government House. Some things are just unexplainable, and I am not taking time off my daily routine to explore these "supernatural"...

Today is one of those days. This blog and post may take me two, maybe three days. I will write and stop and restart, and continue later, and I don't have to explain to you, but I am just decent enough to inform you early. The news today is not so good. I do not chase it down, but whenever I do hear it, I expect it to be uplifting, but as one associate informed me, that good news does not sell papers or anything else, so we are stuck with bad news so that people can get paid and drive big limo. Today it is a black day, and I am shooting black today. Men and women in black, with a little white. Today we have the nation's first Governor General lie in State. Today we also have the Chief of Police popular son lie somewhere else, but both are dead. They are both nationals that served their country, and made their contribution. I am not getting any politics, and my condolences go out to both families. The late Governor General is a blood relative of mine, that is family, and I coul...

I missed one whole full month of blogging and I can't believe that I had nothing to say. In SK there is always something to say, but recently it appear that people are only finding 'bad things' to say about everyone else. It is the sign of the times that we live in, but many people do not know, nor do they try to understand what is going on in the world, and the part they are playing, or maybe more precisely, the part they are expected to play. I see that certain church folks seem to have a handle on things, but very few outside the circle seem to be listening. With the earthquake in Japan and the tsunamis, aftershocks, etc., it seems that some folks are now hearing, but I suspect that they will go deaf again in the next 10 days or so, unless they get another jolt. I am not praying for that, but if it happens, there is nothing more that we can do except to pray. We are expected to give thanks no matter what else we do, and it is  necessary for me to give thanks to the Alm...

On December 22 of last year, I started a blog entitled "to protect, serve or terrorize"  after reading about an UK policewoman who ordered an amateur photographer to delete his photographs. Somehow I may have been sidetracked with Carnival or something more important and so did not complete and post it. In hind sight maybe it was a good thing, that I did not get back to it, and I sometimes wonder if it was just chance, fate or guidance. Of course "believers" will say 'most likely it is divine guidance', and I could live with that too. Today I see a link posted by another Facebook photographer friend and I feel that I must share because we live in a different time and some of us may not fully appreciate some of what is going down today, and before you know it the rules are changed by some kinds of people, albeit, the skin teeth grinning, honest and decent terrorists among us. I suspect that in some cases, and I refer to here in SK, that it can be a matter o...

You are never to old to learn, if you want to. At my tender age of three score  plus I am still learning photography because I want to. Over the last year I learned to use high and higher ISO speeds and I still have to consult the authoritative works to see what the experts say just to ensure that I am doing the correct things and to fine tune that photographic process. But I sometimes wonder if it is necessary to consult with the "experts" when you have already established some rules based on your practical results. The making of a successful end product. Well if I have time later I will consult not just for knowledge sake, but there might be some hints, tips and tricks that I could top off and sweeten this high ISO photographic cake with. Coming from the days of film we know what high ISO is all about, notwithstanding the experimental work done on dilute developer and fast films back then. Kodak even developed a 3200 ISO film and chemicals, which produced very good result...

2010 begins my third photographic cycle. In 1968 I acquired my first SLR camera, a Pentax Spotmatic and a Sunpak Flash, that started me on a journey which still has no end in sight. 21 years later I am at a photographic crossroad and makes a wise decision to step away from Pentax in favour of Canon. Canon offered the new photo quality that I needed to take my photography to the next level. A couple Canon T-90's, one for the studio the other for the bag saw me through until the EOS-1 was launched. During this  20-year cycle I move up, in, around, and about, and finally ended up home, and retired. So I am retired and during this time one is expected to stay out of trouble, so it is fishing and everything else, and not bikini watching on the beach. Next thing my neighbour is getting married and I am invited to the wedding. Of course I am going, but I have never gone to a wedding as a guest before, always as a photographer, so I have to go with a camera in hand or I am naked. Long st...

It is hard to steer away from things carnival since the October launch, because like it or not, carnival is now at the back of everyones mind, and for some of us it is stuck hard onto the front until next year January. I know some people already dreaming about who they jamming with for Jouvert, boy, imagination is a hell-of-a-thing. We all have our imagination, and fantasize we all did as youths. Some things we were able to precipitate into our environment, and some we were not. It is a pity that what we know now, we did not know then ... but maybe it was a good thing for some of us not to know then. Say one say two, it was still more fun living back then, that it is today, notwithstanding the tech world in which we now live. But more time for that talk. Make ready for carnival .... photographically. Check your cameras and stuff now. I am not addressing this to all those photographers who know that I don't mean them, but to the ordinary folks who have a digital camera in a b...