MrStickman

A cool day today! I've been added as a featured photographer on a new South African portfolio website.  I feel really honoured.
Check out the details on my blog...

Have you seen the "Ian Weatherburn Day.li"?

On occasion recently I've tweeted that a new publication of the Ian Weatherburn Day.li is out. If you've had a chance to check it out, or follow along daily then that's awesome, and you'll know what I'm talking about. If not, why not...?

You may also be curious as to how the newspaper is put together, in case you wanted to produce your own paper of interesting articles; photos and videos of your own particular subject matter.

In which case, continue reading here...

What a great week it has been photographically speaking; on two different fronts!

First I achieved a mention on the Facebook pages for Africa Geographic and Safari Interactive Magazine with a link to my portfolio of images taken in the Maasai-Mara in Kenya, September 2010.

Then I am honoured today to appear in the first edition of a local online Wildlife Photographic Magazine.
Check out the August edition on the Wild Photo Mag website where the Editor, Andre; interviewed me about my Wildlife photography.  

[To read more about check out my blog here...]

I've just recently started using the Tumblr microblogging platform to post some photo's and thoughts and memories related to them, particularly for some of the recent postings that I have made on DA. Check it out if you get a chance at....
www.ianweatherburn.com/tumblr

I have also joined the Social Networking in-crowd and have a Google+ account on:
www.ianweatherburn.com/googleplus
Of course my Facebook account still remains:
www.ianweatherburn.com/facebook

I'm also using the paper.li service to publish a daily newspaper that is photography and wildlife related. You can get your daily fix at:
www.ianweatherburn.com/paper

For a full list of links to my web sites, blogs etc as well as a nice long list of photographer web sites that I like to follow check it out at:
www.ianweatherburn.com/links

Many of you that read this blog will know, that I have been dreaming of going to the Maasai Mara for a very long time.  My aspirations and dreams were made quite well known, in this blog, round about last year (sorry that it has been so long between posts!), with an entry entitled: "The Greatest Show on Earth".  I even began a countdown-timer on the blog with over 350 days to go, and every now and again reminded friends and family when I was off on my trip of a lifetime. So to be frank, I don't think I could have been any more enthusiastic if I tried?

With all of that anticipation and lengthy build-up of course, there was the very real danger that the Mara had been over-hyped in my mind. Had the dream been over exaggerated; would the reality be a cruel awakening?  Added to this excitement was the realisation that as a photographer I was very 'out of shape'. Photography, like many other activities; gets better with practice - and practice was something that I had not done in quite some time. My enthusiasm for photography had waned for one reason or another and my camera had been gathering dust. In essence there was a wealth of self-doubt and on more than one occasion I even considered leaving my camera behind and just going to enjoy the experience and the wildlife for what it was, without all that other pressure.

Furthermore, I joked amongst photography colleagues; that the pressure was enormous, considering the fact that I would be in the company of award winning photographers, such as: Greg du Toit, Shem Compion and Mitchell Krog.  Now I don't consider myself in the same league as these guys, but I do pride myself in the work that I am able to produce, and so from within there came this healthy struggle - would I be able to deliver. It was very intimidating though; as friends and family also talked about the high expectations they had of me.

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