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About Andy

 

I am an avid adventurer, conservationist, teacher, and outdoor photographer whose photography celebrates the African landscape and its rich wildlife, people, and culture. My photographic safaris allow my travelers to not only enhance their understanding of photography, lighting, and wildlife, but to develop a life-long admiration for Africa ‘s beauty and culture.

Banana Republic recently used my photographs as the cornerstone of their Urban Safari campaign, and my images were seen in all 750 stores around the globe, as well as in their billboards, catalogs and annual report. I was also the winner of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year in the ‘Wild Places’ category in 2008 and a highly commended in the ‘Creative Visions of Nature’ category in 2007.

I launched Gura Gear in 2008, in an attempt to deliver lightweight camera bags to the market. I was looking for a lightweight camera bag to hold all of my photographic gear, and there was nothing desirable on the market that suited my needs. After spending 2 years with many prototypes, the Gura Gear Kiboko bag was born. More products are now available on the Gura Gear web site.

 

 

 

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has a nice Crop Overlay feature, which allows you to view your images with different grids, or overlays, on top of your images. There are six (6) different crop overlays available. Here is what you do: 1) Hit the 'R' key to go to the Develop module and have the Crop feature enabled. 2) The default display will be the 'Rule of Thirds' crop overlay. 3) Cycle through the other overlay options by clicking the letter 'O' on your keyboard. Not the zero key. For those overlays that are not symmetrical, you can use the Shift+O combination to alter the orienation of the overlay. I have been playing around with these different overlays over the past few days, and I am most intrigued by the Golden Ration and Golden Sprial overlays. Enjoy!

Rule of Thirds

Rule of Thirds

 

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Golden Ratio

 

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Diagonal lines

 

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Triangles

 

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Triangles

 

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The above image and below image are known as the 'golden mean' or 'Phi'. They occur frequently in nature, and some studies have shown that humans may be genetically programmed to recognize the ratio as a pleasing ratio or composition. Studies of top fashion models revealed that their faces have an abundance of the 1.618 ratio.

 

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Golden Mean or Phi

 

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A grid pattern. I have used this overlay to identify converging lines.


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