A poetic piece of motion. World champion freediver Guillaume Nery at Dean’s Blue Hole, the deepest blue hole in the world.

Be INSPIRED.

Would you follow her into a smoke-filled room?

I’ve been working on a lot of new portfolio pieces lately. This shoot was especially fun. We had about 15 of my friends pass through the studio throughout the day and dressed them up in the most creative way possible. We got some great stuff out of it, here are just a few of the images from the day.

Cheers!

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I’m a sucker for graphic art. I’m especially digging the increasing amounts of collaborations between graphic artists and photographers, mixing mediums and creating some amazing work in the process.

I have been interested in this field for a while so when I saw that the exceptionally talented Peter Nudo lived not far from me in sunny San Diego… I got in touch with him in the hopes that we could work on a project together.

Turned out Peter was at a similar stage in his career to me and eager to sink his teeth into some new projects. He has an infectious enthusiasm for art and design much like myself and we hit it off.

Here is one of the fruits of our chat…a ‘remix’ of one of my images that wouldn’t have otherwise seen the light of day…

Kudos to Pete for making something of this image – he’s just relocated to San Fran and is going to go FAR!

Shot this a month or two ago. Built a rain machine and off we went. LIGHTS camera and action. Love the way the lights pick up the rain and texture of the water splashes against her skin.

Off to Hawaii tomorrow, can’t wait!

You’ve got to have something to say. It could be conceptual, or you can try to save the world as a photojournalist. But you can’t just be a technician. Everybody’s a technician. You’ve got to have an idea. – David Alan Harvey

Via PDN.

I was at Photoshop World in Las Vegas at the beginning of the month – where I met a whole bunch of the guys from NAPP and learnt a few new things. At the opening Keynote one of the presenters demonstrated some of the new features Adobe has been working on.

Here are two new technologies they’ve been developing. Unfortunately we aren’t to know when they might be showing up in a release version of Photoshop. The first is content aware patching. I use the patch tool regularly every day, so this looks pretty exciting – though whether or not it will be useful in real-world commercial retouching remains to be seen….Check out the very cool video demo here…

The second is similar, probably based on the same algorithms – content aware healing. This looks like it will be tremendously useful for day to day retouching where extraneous elements need to be removed from source images. Check it out here…

Courtesy of John Nack from Adobe!