by Kiff Backhouse | Aug 1, 2010 | Photo Blog
A photo of the harbour at Cassis, a small sea-side town near Marseille. Cassis is well known as it is the gateway to the Calanques, a strip of rugged limestone coast with long narrow inlets almost like small fjords carved out of the rock. The sea in this area is an...
by Kiff Backhouse | Jul 22, 2010 | Photo Blog
A Study in Still Life A friend of mine makes models of fruit and vegetables using plaster, paint and varnish. I asked her if she could make me some fruits whcih I though might be a good idea to take along to some Holiday Home shoots. The next week, she turned up...
by Kiff Backhouse | Jul 3, 2010 | Photo Blog
With a beautiful city like Montpellier, you might expect to head for the center, Place de la Comedie and places like that. But this time, I was near the recently/nearly completed shopping center (that’s a Mall to North America) with my camera and tripod and...
by Kiff Backhouse | Jun 6, 2010 | Photo info
As the volume of my photos has started building up and the speed at which this is increasing has also ramped up, I have started trying to tighten-up my workflow. I bought DxO, when I first started, used it for a while and then gave up in favour of Lightroom 3. LR3...
by Kiff Backhouse | May 21, 2010 | Photo Blog
Sunrise over the Vallee d’Orb (the Orb Valley) in the Languedoc, France. From the archives, back in the days of the promise of summer to come, and light and warm mornings and evenings bore fruit to a very early morning to catch the sunrise coming up over St....