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Book Preview—Wildflower Country

We have just posted a lively preview of our book, filled with focus stacking photography, HDRI and macro panoramas: Wildflower... Read More »


Macro Focus Stack of Black Bean flowers

We have sent off the makings of our next book, Rainforest Country, but photography continues unabated. Beautiful things are all around and we cannot stop... Read More »


Photography e-Books: Focus Stacking, HDRI, Macro Panoramas

Want to know how we do it?

I think e-Books featuring the making of an image “from go to woah” would be valuable to a lot... Read More »


Death to Film Mentality in Digital Photography

Expose To The Right (ETR) and More

Some digital photographers pride themselves on “getting it right in-camera”: taking a photo that needs little development before... Read More »


Eric Rolls Prize for Nature Writing

Very exciting news—we have jointly won the inagural Eric Rolls Prize for Nature Writing!

A quote from the Watermark Literary Society:  In announcing... Read More »


Kings Park Wildflower Country Photography Exhibition

A large format outdoor exhibition of pictures from Wildflower Country is on in... Read More »


Wildflower Country Windows

The beautiful Boffins Bookshop in Perth  created some wonderful window displays celebrating the launch of Wildflower Country!

We ran a competition whereby people... Read More »


Kaisa’s Focus Stack Workflow, 2009

This is actually a reply to a friend that asked about how we achieve the clarity in our photographs and our basic workflow. I thought... Read More »


Wildflower Country—Discovering Biodiversity in Australia’s Southwest

Our up-and-coming book entitled Wildflower Country—Discovering Biodiversity in Australia’s Southwest is well underway! All of the 166 pictures have been processed and are looking truly... Read More »


Photoshop CS4 Focus Stacking continued

PS CS4 and PhotoAcute blends compared again

Well, I’ve tried it again. I like that Photoshop doesn’t skew your stacks, but it does have problems with... Read More »


We’ve hit the road!

We’re off north of Perth! Wildflowers are starting to appear. The further north we go, the more there is. Looks like we’ll be catching the... Read More »


First Impressions — Focus Stacking in Adobe Photoshop CS4

I have used PhotoAcute Studio for jobs involving focus stacking, or extended DOF (depth of field). It did a better job for... Read More »


Far Away

Yes, we are far away. Further away than we initially thought we would be. We’d planned to blog as we go, yet most places we... Read More »


All I want for Christmas is a Red 617

Oh, what we could do with this! There have been rumblings on The Luminous Landscape and elsewhere about digital cameras and video... Read More »


2008 Awards

ANZANG Nature and Landscape Photographer of the Year Award

It’s not really latest news, but we were very proud to again be winners in ANZANG Nature’s... Read More »


Our International Biodiversity Hotspots project

Preparing to hit the road

Plans are now in place for our big adventure to Western Australia to begin our Biodiversity project—photographing for a new series... Read More »






From Kaisa & Stan

Latest missives from Kaisastan (that's us), about photography, nature, and the devastatingly miserable (or utterly inspiring and wondrous) state of both

Book Preview—Wildflower Country

We have just posted a lively preview of our book, filled with focus stacking photography, HDRI and macro panoramas:

Macro Focus Stack of Black Bean flowers

We have sent off the makings of our next book, Rainforest Country, but photography continues unabated. Beautiful things are all...

Photography e-Books: Focus Stacking, HDRI, Macro Panoramas

Want to know how we do it?

I think e-Books featuring the making of an image “from go to woah” would...