Some ran­dom pho­tog­ra­phy related links which have caught my eye over the last few days:

• I’ll start off with the fan­tas­tic video at the top of this post, The Aurora, by Terje Sorgjerd. It involved a week of nights, in the open at –25 degrees Cel­sius. My wife thinks Terje must be nuts, but I would love to expe­ri­ence this!
• Despite my strug­gles to work through my back cat­a­log, sort­ing the good from the bad, one of the goals of this web­site is to show off my best shots and offer high qual­ity prints. I have dab­bled with Foto­moto to pro­vide that facil­ity, but have dis­abled it for the moment as I had some tech­ni­cal issues. In the mean time, Pho­to­Shel­ter (a com­pany which spe­cialises in build­ing port­fo­lio web­sites for pho­tog­ra­phers) has realeased it’s “2011 How To Sell Prints” guide. Excel­lent, and timely reading.
• I still hang on to my Canon EOS 30 film cam­era, and I prob­a­bly have a stash of about 40 rolls of Fuji 400 speed film. At times, I felt “more of a pho­tog­ra­pher” when using that, than I do now with my Canon EOS 7D. Why? Hard to nail down, but per­haps the newer tech­nol­ogy, and instant feed­back allows us to sub­con­sciously rel­e­gate actual pho­to­graphic skill to post pro­cess­ing so to speak. Whereas pre­vi­ously I would use par­tial meter­ing and expo­sure com­pen­sa­tion to get the result I wanted, now there is a lot of “spray and pray”. Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phy School’s arti­cle “5 ways to stop being a luck pho­tog­ra­pher {and start tak­ing pic­tures on pur­pose}” might help to get me back on track.
• Over­heard in Cam­era shop: “My cam­era is bro­ken”. Clas­sic. I expe­ri­ence this is so many area’s these days, com­put­ers, camera’s, soft­ware, etc.
• Finally, was dig­ging through my photo col­lec­tion recently to illus­trate my run­ning route in Manly, Syd­ney, and I cam upon these two. They worked out well, so I though I would share:

The view of St. Patricks, North Head, Manly, from Queenscliff.

Dawn, Ocean Beach, Manly, NSW, Australia.