A photography blog by Robert van Koesveld around learning to see as a photographer: with my own images and process as well as whatever I think inspires, informs, extends or challenges in the struggle to learn to see. There are two supplementary blogs; LTS2 for photography and LTS3 for other Art. The links are at the top above this. They are a place to display others work that I find inspirational and that I want to refer back to. Comments are welcome use ‘click to comment’ or email me here:{robert@learningtosee.net.au} All work not marked as ‘reblog’ is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Please do not remove attribution or click through links from all work. Tumblr (3.0; @learningtosee)http://www.learningtosee.net.au/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m497r2IoDS1qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <div> <p>Uzbekistan Light 08</p> <p><a href="http://www.learningtosee.net.au/tagged/RvKUzbeklight" target="_blank">Series Link</a>    (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-NC-ND)</a></p> </div> </div>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23862144179http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23862144179Sun, 27 May 2012 22:26:16 +0800UzbekistanRvKUzbeklightBlack and White<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4h3g6LxOa1qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>An image from a new photo essay on my other blog about the</p> <h2 class="entry-title">Kawant Mela – the Gair fair of Gujurat in India</h2> <p>Heres the link <a href="http://www.robertvankoesveld.com/2012/05/kawant-mela-the-gair-fair-of-gujurat-in-india/" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.robertvankoesveld.com/2012/05/kawant-mela-the-gair-fair-of-gujurat-in-india/" target="_blank">http://www.robertvankoesveld.com/2012/05/kawant-mela-the-gair-fair-of-gujurat-in-india/</a></a></p>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23796535202http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23796535202Sat, 26 May 2012 22:30:39 +0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m497l1VeoI1qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <div> <p>Uzbekistan Light 07 </p> <p><a href="http://www.learningtosee.net.au/tagged/RvKUzbeklight" target="_blank">Series Link</a>    (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-NC-ND)</a></p> </div> </div>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23733790123http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23733790123Fri, 25 May 2012 22:18:48 +0800UzbekistanportraitBlack and Whiteblack-and-whiteRvKUzbeklight<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m497hcrWsq1qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <p>Uzbekistan Light 06 Khiva</p> <p><a href="http://www.learningtosee.net.au/tagged/RvKUzbeklight" target="_blank">Series Link</a>    (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-NC-ND)</a></p> </div>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23671857150http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23671857150Thu, 24 May 2012 22:29:18 +0800Black and WhiteUzbekistanblack-and-whitecityscapekhivaRvKUzbeklight<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m497doVVOk1qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Uzbekistan Light 05</p> <p><a href="http://www.learningtosee.net.au/tagged/RvKUzbeklight" target="_blank">Series Link</a>    (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-NC-ND)</a></p>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23609119763http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23609119763Wed, 23 May 2012 22:31:32 +0800UzbekistanportraitBlack and Whiteblack-and-whiteRvKUzbeklight<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m49798AqW41qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <div> <p>Uzbekistan Light 04</p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.learningtosee.net.au/tagged/RvKUzbeklight" target="_blank">Series Link</a>    <span class="Apple-style-span">(<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-NC-ND)</a></span></span></p> </div> </div>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23544565893http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23544565893Tue, 22 May 2012 22:24:31 +0800RvKUzbeklightUzbekistancityscapeBlack and Whiteblack-and-white<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m49755U4h11qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <p>Uzbekistan Light 03 </p> <p>I will be alternating portraits and cityscapes in this series.</p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.learningtosee.net.au/tagged/RvKUzbeklight" target="_blank">Series Link</a>    <span class="Apple-style-span">(<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-NC-ND)</a></span></span></p> </div>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23532581676http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23532581676Tue, 22 May 2012 14:20:39 +0800RvKUzbeklightUzbekistanportraitBlack and Whiteblack-and-white<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m496z5ynR71qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Uzbekistan Light 02 Khiva</p> <p>I will be alternating portraits and cityscapes in this series.</p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.learningtosee.net.au/tagged/RvKUzbeklight" target="_blank">Series Link</a>    <span class="Apple-style-span">(<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-NC-ND)</a></span></span></p>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23354671991http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23354671991Sun, 20 May 2012 00:10:40 +0800RvKUzbeklightUzbekistancityscapeBlack and Whiteblack-and-white<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m496mwGp4W1qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Uzbekistan Light 01</p> <p>Starting a new series of images from Uzbekistan which I have returned to after some time and reprocessed from scratch. It has been a great thing to revisit this trip (2008) and find these images. I now  remember the wonderful lyrical light of that country.</p> <p>The trip was the reason that I decided <em>never again</em> to travel with a group that was not specifically built around photography. I found it very, very frustrating when the bus ploughed-on-by fantastic photographic opportunities or hurried home because some folk wanted to get back to the hotel for drinks despite the light being at its best all day. I also will not forget driving past the utterly moving and beautiful Parmir Mountains looking through dirty windows and rushing to the next border with barely a stop in Kyrgyzstan either. Despite that I did meet one of the best guides I have experienced and made some real friends from that trip.</p> <p>I think black and white shows the light at its best despite wonderful colour being part of the Uzbekistan experience. I will put together something on the magical textiles of Uzbekistan in future.</p> <p>These images were captured on a Canon 1Ds III with 3 primes 35 mm, 50 mm and 135 mm. I also realised again how easy it is to miss critical focus with these lenses when one is ambitiously using f1.4,  so the images you are <em>not</em> seeing are all those with blur in the wrong place. Thankfully my skills have improved as have cameras focus capacity. The 35mm 1.4 and 50mm 1.2 are not the best of the Canon primes (although I still like the 135mm f 2.0) and it was interesting to see how Lightroom 4 did a much better job of processing and removing some of the lens distortions I disliked when I reworked them.</p> <p><a href="http://www.learningtosee.net.au/tagged/RvKUzbeklight" target="_blank">Series Link</a>    <span class="Apple-style-span">(<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-NC-ND)</a></span></p>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23333963456http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23333963456Sat, 19 May 2012 12:47:00 +0800RvKUzbeklightUzbekistanBlack and Whiteblack-and-whiteportrait<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m47zmgsMD31qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Looking for quality…..</p> <p>I’ve been posting pretty much every day for two and a bit years and I think its time to slow down just a little. I’d like to give myself a bit more time to look for quality as well as qualities in the images before I post. I would also like to have had enough reflection so that I feel that a series holds together before I post. The goal of this blog has always been my own learning to see process so this idea fits with that too.</p> <p>What that means in practice is there might be the occasional pause while I think and work on images.</p> <p>I am also intending just posting my own work here  because mixing my stuff with reblogs confuses some folk and will also make it easier for me to link back to just my work from other sites. I will still keep up LTS2 and LTS3 for inspirational photography and other artwork.</p> <p>Eventually I might simplify the layout of this blog also.</p> <p>I will start a new series monday.</p>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23288592721http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/23288592721Fri, 18 May 2012 21:18:00 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3nfwuRLDG1qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <div> <div> <div> <p>GUJ 15 Finishing a week of black & white portraits from Gujarat</p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.learningtosee.net.au/tagged/RvKGuj" target="_blank">Gujarat Series Link</a>  (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-NC-ND)</a></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22841278294http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22841278294Fri, 11 May 2012 22:31:00 +0800portraitBlack and Whiteblack-and-whiteGujaratRvKguj<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3nfttPo7m1qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <div> <div> <p>GUJ 14 An image from my essay post (my other blog) on the Salt Workers of The little Rann of Kutch (Desert) <a href="http://www.robertvankoesveld.com/2012/05/the-salt-workers-of-the-little-rann-of-kutch/" target="_blank">Here’s the link to the post</a> or just click on the image.</p> <p><a href="http://www.learningtosee.net.au/tagged/RvKGuj" target="_blank">Gujarat Series Link</a>  (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-NC-ND)</a></p> </div> </div> </div>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22779639765http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22779639765Thu, 10 May 2012 22:31:23 +0800portraitBlack and Whiteblack-and-whiteGujaratRvKguj<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3nfotQn1S1qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <div> <p>GUJ 13 A week of black & white portraits from Gujarat</p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.learningtosee.net.au/tagged/RvKGuj" target="_blank">Gujarat Series Link</a>  (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-NC-ND)</a></span></p> </div> </div>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22716106424http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22716106424Wed, 09 May 2012 22:31:37 +0800Black and WhiteRvKgujblack-and-whiteportraitGujarat<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ndwc055f1qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <p>GUJ 12 A week of black & white portraits from Gujarat</p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.learningtosee.net.au/tagged/RvKGuj" target="_blank">Gujarat Series Link</a>  (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-NC-ND)</a></span></p> </div>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22652419947http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22652419947Tue, 08 May 2012 22:31:19 +0800portraitBlack and Whiteblack-and-whiteGujaratRvKguj<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ndrxdMYZ1qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>GUJ 11 A week of black & white portraits from Gujarat</p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.learningtosee.net.au/tagged/RvKGuj" target="_blank">Gujarat Series Link</a>  (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-NC-ND)</a></span></p>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22587723912http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22587723912Mon, 07 May 2012 22:31:37 +0800Black and WhiteRvKgujblack-and-whiteportraitGujarat<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3i4qfqa061qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div class="post_content" id="post_content_22320763644"> <div class="caption"> <p>HOME 15 continuing a series of work shot around my home</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.learningtosee.net.au/tagged/HOME" target="_blank">Full Series Link</a></strong>  (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-NC-ND)</a></p> <div></div> </div> </div>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22382802083http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22382802083Fri, 04 May 2012 22:25:00 +0800homervkhomeBlack and Whiteblack-and-white<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m38cttki2T1qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>HOME 14 continuing a series of work shot around my home</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.learningtosee.net.au/tagged/HOME" target="_blank">Full Series Link</a></strong> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-NC-ND)</a></p>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22320763644http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22320763644Thu, 03 May 2012 21:50:00 +0800homeleafBlack and Whiteblack-and-whitervkhome<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m38cqaIzbg1qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <div> <div class="post_content" id="post_content_21912816220"> <div class="caption"> <div class="post_content" id="post_content_21912816220"> <div class="caption"> <div> <p>HOME 13 continuing a series of work shot around my home</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.learningtosee.net.au/tagged/HOME" target="_blank">Full Series Link</a></strong> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-NC-ND)</a></p> </div> <div class="post_content" id="post_content_21912816220"> <div class="caption"> <div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22255779956http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22255779956Wed, 02 May 2012 22:02:00 +0800grassbambooBlack and Whitelensblrhomervkhome<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m38cmyjH541qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <div> <p>HOME 12 continuing a series of work shot around my home</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.learningtosee.net.au/tagged/HOME" target="_blank">Full Series Link</a></strong> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-NC-ND)</a></p> </div> <div class="post_content" id="post_content_21912816220"> <div class="caption"> <div class="post_content" id="post_content_21912816220"> <div class="caption"> <div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22192979444http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22192979444Tue, 01 May 2012 22:31:00 +0800homervkhomelensblrbokehfall<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m38cj8eHce1qzvdfqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <p>HOME 11 continuing a series of work shot around my home</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.learningtosee.net.au/tagged/HOME" target="_blank">Full Series Link</a></strong> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">CC-BY-NC-ND)</a></p> </div>http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22122843509http://www.learningtosee.net.au/post/22122843509Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:31:00 +0800homervkhomeBlack and WhiteBlack&amp;whiteabstractlensblr