The Vickers Wellington There are two things that I regret about settling in Turkey. Neither of them are the result of Turks, indeed I love Turks, and especially my Chick-a-Dee! My first regret is the losing of my home town. It’s a great place, full of late night parties, fuelled with kif and inebriates after [...]
Low Key, Low Light! OK I confess, I have used a little Noise Ninja, Power Retouche and PhotoShop to enhance this ISO 1600 image captured by the Summilux in a virtually dark space. And, truth be told, even though I much prefer the colours from Olympus E-400 to those coming from the Canon 20D, the [...]
The late Gregory Bateson when teaching art students matters of epistemology was fond of presenting them with a boiled crab and asking: “I want you to produce arguments which will convince me that this object is the remains of a living thing. You may imagine, if you will, that you are Martians and that on [...]
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Stephen Jeremy Maxwell Bray lives with his wife Irem, and daughter Amazon at Amos, Turunc near Marmaris, Turkey... . he is currently writing a series of three books about photography for publication on Amazon Kindle. The first of these 'Photography and Psychoanalysis' was published on May 10th, 2013.
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