Male cicadas are in a crazy frenzy of music making here at the moment. The official last day of summer … More
Author: alittleart
A while back I ran away from a twentymumble-year corporate career to be a feckless art student. Since then I've dirtied my hands with, metaphorically and/or literally, bronze and ceramic sculpture, photography, and digital and traditional illustration. Mask making was one discovery, dovetailing with my interests in teaching and performing improvised theatre.
Enough with the cabbage already
I spent this weekend at a photography meetup, held at a seaside community about three hours drive away from home. Without internet or … More
B-Movie Masked Funtimes
The improvised Fringe show I’m a player in this year is Attack of the Killer B-Movie. Naturally a chance to use some … More
Pensive baboon, yawning sun bear
This week’s mild obsession continues; playing with the IR modified camera. I know they’re more typically used for landscape-over-water shots, but … More
Sand-blasted
Lyall Bay beach, on a day with weather warnings of up 100km winds for Wellington – normally there’s a metre … More
A familar place made strange
I took the IR converted camera with me on an early morning walk, and this afternoon, with much help from the … More
IR with Cheetahs
Update some days later! After an “ah hah” moment with photo processing for images from the IR camera today, I revisited my … More
Caterpillar piehole-equivalent
Today I experimented some more using off-camera flash. My subject was a monarch caterpillar, and the photograph was taken on a Sony A7ii, using a … More
Kingdom of the derp
Wandering round the local hillside zoo with a camera is pretty much the base of my fitness regime. Regular rambling suggests that the earlier … More
Getting flash, on a small scale
One of the basic technical skills I’m trying to wrap my mind around at the moment is how to use … More
A Little Art 