Category: Tools and Techniques

Capturing Speed: Lessons from the Nanaimo MX Race

Feature image by Bob Ianson. While I didn’t make it to last month’s field trip to the MX track, VCC member photographs definitely made me

Bookbinding Workshop This June: A New Way to Present Your Work

“It don’t have no zing (if you don’t print that thing).” There’s an old song from the early last century titled “It Don’t Mean a

Why Your Photos Don’t Look Like What You Saw

The following blog is a lightly edited conversation that I had with Leah about what really happens in a weekend workshop with Leah Gray and

AI Photos?

Ask any serious photographer what they think of ‘artificial Intelligence’ and what it means to photography and you are opening yourself up to a flood

How I Shot and Edited the Milky Way Over Amphitrite Point Lighthouse

Text and all photos by Jerome Rozitis, including banner image, Amphitrite Point Lighthouse Under the Milky Way. A good Milky Way image takes some planning.

Capturing a Total Solar Eclipse

Having the opportunity to experience and photograph the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, was a dream come true for me, combining my deep interest in astronomy with my passion for photography.

Walking Through Light and Character: A Vancouver Street & Portrait Workshop

This October, I joined Danish photographer Thorsten Overgaard for a multi-day street and portrait photography workshop in downtown Vancouver. Working exclusively in black and white, I explored the city through light, geometry, gesture, and character.

Finding Beauty in Impermanence: Wabi-Sabi and the Art of Seeing Through the Lens

Fine-art photographer Kathryn Delany explores the philosophy of wabi-sabi through creative composites — blending realism and texture to reveal the beauty of imperfection, transience, and time’s gentle passage.

London: Walking Through the Shadows

London is a city of intersections — between light and shadow, stone and glass, movement and emotion. It is a mix of historical & modern seemingly designed to be photographed in monochrome.

Capture Movement Like a Brushstroke: How to Paint Motion with Light

Learn how to create striking long-exposure light-painting photographs using simple tools, inspired by Canadian photographer Stephen Orlando’s glowing trails of movement. Perfect for DIY photographers, no special gear required. Illustrated with photographs by Roland Nowland, Erin Flanagan, David Cox, Kathryn Delany, and Anke Weber.