Over the last several weeks I have been really busy working on the launch of the website for Mardi Gras 2008 - 360 Degrees. Ok, so what exactly is Mardi Gras 360 Degrees? Well, it?s part photo workshop and part...

You never know where this site is going to take you. After blogging about my trip to Africa, I received an email from Inside Aperture viewer Brendon McClean, who read that I was taking this big trip to Mozambique and...

Imagine waking up one day and realizing you can’t see right out of one or both your eyes. It would be pretty terrifying, right? But not likely to happen to you because bad eye trouble and loss of vision happens...

In my previous post, I described the storage solution that I'm planning to use on an extended trip - sans computer - to Africa. This trip won't be the first time that I've gone on a shooting expedition without a...

Many of our digital media bloggers are out of the US right now working on assignments. But starting next week on Sept. 17, there's a great opportunity for those of us in the States. Rick Smolan and the team that...

I’m writing this from rural Mozambique, a small community called Machaze, where the only electricity is at the Oxfam office and is only on when the generator is humming. So far my equipment choices have worked out well. Aperture is...

Copyright Steve Simon Okay, the six-week big trip through Mozambique and South Africa continues. I’ve already bared-all with the description of what I take with me equipment wise. The big question remains, what kind of underwear and how many?...

Traveling with your camera is a secret dream of many of us. There's no question when you're in a new and interesting place, all your senses are stimulated particularly your visual sense and it almost feels like pointing your camera...

I am currently on vacation. On Wednesday, I took a ferry from my home in Dominica to Guadeloupe, a French island just to our north. The trip was really nice. We left around 8 pm and it took about two...

I've said it before, my travel fantasy is to be all packed and ready, looking at my watch to see if it's time to mosey on over to the airport and check-in. But the reality is always a bad case...

I just returned to New York after a great trip traveling in and around Santiago, Chile. Whenever I’ve traveled abroad before, I’ve always taken photos and processed them in Aperture upon my return home. For this trip however, I wanted...

In the second part of my Aperture In Slovakia post, I wanted to mention how I used Aperture to plan out the final exhibition. At the end of the week, we made some tough decisions to come up with our...

I'm here in beautiful Liptovsky Mikulas, a four-hour train ride from Slovakia's capital Bratislava, teaching a workshop on digital documentary photography. Of course, I have brought along Aperture, which has proven to be a teacher's best friend and assistant extordinaire....

When it comes to color correction--skin tones are probably the most difficult to get right, and the most closely scrutinized. After all, if the skin tones are off, we immediately know something is amiss and it's hard to get past...

To all of our American readers, happy 4th of July! When we think about the 4th of July, the first thing that comes to mind is that we get the day off. The second thing is fireworks! Fireworks are a...

I recently did a commercial job which had a precise schedule over two days. I have done this kind of event photography before, but this time using Aperture, I planned on cutting my post processing time, with some pre-production work...

BIDOA, SOMALIA-- It is very interesting to observe the process that Dr. James Orbinski, the former head of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of MSF in 1999, goes through in determining whether we...

GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC)-- A documentary film crew and I have made our way here by car from Kigali, Rwanda. We are following Dr. James Orbinski, the former head of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), (who accepted the Nobel...

KIGALI, RWANDA--From what I've seen of this country, like so many places in Africa, it's beautiful with lush vegetation, rolling hills framed by mountains and active volcanoes. But there is also poverty and the burden of HIV/AIDS and the legacy...

It has been a mad scramble as usual to pack for my trip to Africa. I always fantasize about being a James-Bond-like-traveler; relaxed, in a tux with martini in hand, bored and checking my watch to see if it's time...