About Detour
I’ve been taking photos since 2001, but it took me till Sept 2005 to get Detour up and running. My initial plan was to post the best shots from my 10,000+ archive, and then tell the story that went along with each – because while “a picture says a 1,000 words” I always thought the story behind the shot added that bit more to the image.
I used up my archived material long-ago, so these days it’s all pretty recent stuff – from a hours old, to a few days/weeks old.
Why Detour?
My day job is in the creative industry, but not photography – so this is my ‘creative distraction’, it’s my break from work/life/whatever. And because Detour fitted in nicely with my Dfunkd domain.
Equipment:
Do you care? If you do: most of the pre-Sept 2006 shots were taken with a stock-standard Canon Powershot G3. I took great pride in getting some fairly good shots despite not having any fancy lenses or an external flash (a cheap tripod was my only accessory).
Since Sept ‘06 I’m loving my Canon EOS 400D with a variety of lenses (18-55mm, 75-300mm, 10-22mm, 100mm macro), plus a cheap-ass fisheye adapter and a not cheap-ass 580EX external flash, all lugged around in a Crumpler 7 Million Dollar Home. Oh, and they lost my cheap tripod en-route to Vegas so I upgraded to a very nice Manfrotto 718B.
Software:
Phlog powered by Wordpress. Wordpress is the dog’s bollox! (That’s a good thing.)
All shots taken in RAW format, processed in Adobe Lightroom, and then final tweaks in Photoshop.
Contact:
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Enjoy
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In the press:
- Nov ‘06: Photoblogs.org ‘Post of the Day‘
- Dec ‘08: Blog on Photoblogs featured photographer interview
Detour – phlogging TM since Sept 2005
