Thank you to my contributors and supporters…
If you have been reading my blog recently, you will know I have been looking for contributors to help support a series of projects here in Indonesia. Well, I am now very close to my target and so on Thursday will be heading to Makassar to start shooting. I still need to sort out a [...]
Help me to help others…
At the start of February, I will be embarking on a journey to shoot three different personal projects in Sulawesi and Sumatra, all of which will support development and conservation efforts in these locations. Why do I call them personal projects? Because I have not commissioned to shoot these stories - they are of great [...]
Fighting the Tide – Waste in Indonesia…
Bali has a well-deserved reputation as one of the world's best holiday destinations and millions of tourists arrive on the island every year to explore its culture, landscapes and nightlife. However this huge influx of people causes an extraordinary problem – vast amounts of waste and a lack of infrastructure to deal with it. It [...]
Merry Christmas from Matthew Oldfield Photography…
I am sitting at my desk, coughing away with a chest infection – not quite what I planned for Christmas, but who cares… Take some meds and I am off to the beach. The sun and salt water will do me some good. This year I decided to produce a small Christmas newsletter that I [...]
Matthew Oldfield Photography Online…
For those of you who are regular visitors to my site, you might have noticed a complete change to my homepage – instead of landing on my wordpress site, you are now directed straight into my Photoshelter archive. There I use a 'Photo Wall' to display recent galleries of images, latest updates and links to [...]
Can I have your photos for free? – Part 2
Regular visitors to my site will have read a previous post about requests for free image use and my frustration at having to explain, over and over again, why I believe images should not be given away for free. That post prompted a conversation with my friend, Tony Wu, and kicked off a project that [...]
Can I have your photos for free?
On an almost daily basis I receive requests to use my images. Unfortunately, the vast majority of these requests are variations of the following – ‘We love your photos, but can’t pay for them. Can we have them for free, or in exchange for a link or credit?’ In my opinion, these requests reflect a [...]
Know of an exciting marine conservation story..?
I am in the midst of putting together a pitch to a big conservation/environment organisation for photo features and multimedia pieces that will be used as part of a new information portal focused on the oceans and their management as natural resources. This project looks like it will be a fantastic opportunity to highlight interesting [...]
