 | Name: | David Astley [Only registered TrekEarth members may contact banyanman.] |
| Country: | Malaysia | |
| Intro: | “It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary” – David Bailey I'm a British/Australian expatriate, living in Malaysia since 1997. I work in the media industry, but I'm not a professional photographer (although I often had a camera thrust into my hands when working as a journalist early in my career). My work takes me to some interesting places in Asia and the Pacific, and I try to take advantage of any free time when I am away to pursue my passion for travel photography – something I have been dabbling in since 1967, and have been pursuing as a serious hobby since 2001. I have a personal website at www.xyzasia.com which contains some of my earlier travel photo albums, and I have some later albums on Pbase that I will progressively expand. I also post a few other photos from my travels to my blog Although I was very active for my first two years on TrekEarth, these days work commitments prevent me from spending more than a few hours a week on TE. However, I do enjoy the rapport between TE members (and have enjoyed meeting a few personally), so intend to remain an active member. I try to write as many critiques as I receive, and write them honestly. Please don’t be offended if I give only one point if I think something could be improved. I would like you to do the same to me. I know there are many on TE who give two points away to fairly mediocre photographs as a quid pro quo for points they have received, but that reduces the effectiveness of rating images and in using TE to help us to improve our photography. Copyright notice: My TrekEarth posts may be copied and used in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike2.5 licence. For commercial use and high res files, please mail me. | |
| Member Since: | 2005-06-07 | |
| Camera: | DSC-T9, Nikon Coolpix 5000, Nikon D100, Nikon D200, Nikon F70, Ricoh TLS 401 | |
| Note: | Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer
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