I wanted to collect interest for my next Landscape Photography workshop.

If you would like to learn more about landscape photography and literally save yourself months and years of learning the hard way, this workshop is for you. Level is beginner – intermediate.

Check out the link below for more information

http://www.kajophotography.com/blog/landscape-workshop/

Please just drop me an email or send a comment below to register your interest. If you come with a friend, I will give you both a 10% discount on the workshop.

Space is strictly limited to 8 attendees, so please contact me as soon as possible.

I have been to Vietnam on a photography assignment in the past and I wish I had known about this cave back then. But then it wasn’t even discovered yet. Some cave explorers discovered the Son Doong cave only in 2009 and it is now deemed the largest cave in the world.
I am pretty certain that this will be a huge tourist attraction in the future. So the best time to go and see it is now.

Take a look at more pictures here.

And a National Geogrpahic doco:

Nasa has published a free ebook  that shows some absolutely fascinating images of our planet.
this would make a great coffee table book. But if nothing else I will put this on my ipad and put that on my coffee table

From the Foreword:

“In 1960, the United States put its first Earth-observing
environmental satellite into orbit around the planet. Over the
decades, these satellites have provided invaluable information,
and the vantage point of space has provided new perspectives
on Earth. This book celebrates Earth’s aesthetic beauty in the
patterns, shapes, colors, and textures of the land, oceans, ice,|
and atmosphere. Earth-observing environmental satellites can
measure outside the visible range of light, so these images
show more than what is visible to the naked eye. The beauty|
of Earth is clear, and the artistry ranges from the surreal to
the sublime. Truly, by escaping Earth’s gravity we discovered
its attraction.”

While shooting photos for the ad campaign for summer in Sydney at the harbour, I saw the huge construction site in front of the Opera House and a newly created foot bridge for pedestrians to cross the big hole in the ground. I instantly thought that this could be a great opportunity for me to get my camera in an unusual place to take photos from. After all, the construction site is only temporary and thus I might be able to shoot an image from the Opera House that that has not been shot to death.

It is very hard to find fresh and new angles of icons which have been shot to death, so I couldn’t wait to plan my next shoot from that bridge.

A week later I set out to going there and once I arrived at the top of the pedestrian bridge, I noticed that the safety fence  of about 3 meters height would be a big obstacle. I went through my options of shooting through the fence, but quickly dismissed it as the mesh was way too narrow. Finally I could only think of climbing up the fence (not a good idea if you’re 20 meters above a construction hole with temporary fencing) or lift my camera up to the top of the fence and use live view to compose.

Finally a time when live view is actually useful. I have never otherwise used it as my trusted viewfinder is a much better and more reliable way to compose (especially as it is a 100% viewfinder on my trusted D300 – unlike many other cameras).

Here is the shot of the setup. I just lifted the camera up on the tripod and clamped my hands down to fix the tripod against the mesh of the fence. Finally with the remote release and via live view I managed to compose a shot of  the Opera House that is unusual and unique as soon the bridge and the construction site will have disappeared.

Finding oportunities like that are really golden and I encourage anyone to go out there with open eyes and seize them as they present themselves. Oftentimes this might include a bit of trespassing on constructions sites etc, but it certainly keeps your photography unique and exciting.

Aboard the International Space Station there is a an astronaut as well as a passionate photographer who takes some amazing photos of planet earth.

He uses a 600mm Nikon lens and a 2x teleconverter to zoom right in on our planet.
The photos are unique and really amazing. Check it out yourself.