Gordon Moat

11/08/2019

I've been a mobile creative professional for many years. In that time, I've changed the gear I've used, and the places from which I work. It's a road warrior lifestyle, a creative nomad. Here's an article about that. Enjoy.

Not All Who Wander Are Lost

06/02/2019

Being an artist.

12/17/2018

2019 is almost here. See what Pantone forecasts.

Pantone revealed its 2019 Color of the Year – the ‘life-affirming’ shade of Living Coral – with the debut of a multi-sensory installation at the Royal Palm South Beach resort during Art Basel Miami Beach. The global authority on colour teamed up with T...

06/15/2018

“the camera is a liar. It shows everything. It shows nothing. It reveals only what we want. Often, what we see is seen only from a window, moving past and then gone. One window. My window. If you had been here, chances are you would have seen things differently.” - Anthony Bourdain

02/16/2018

This Chinese New Year marks the start of the Year of the Dog!

PHOTO: Portofino. Liguria, Italy. 1936.
© Herbert List/Magnum Photos

08/06/2015

Updates on Facebook have become barely worth the time, due to changes in the Facebook time-line algorithm. https://fstoppers.com/bts/sad-truth-about-facebook-78831

Everything in life comes and goes. Sadly, photographers using Facebook to promote their work is coming to an end. It wasn’t that long ago when newsfeeds were sorted by the things most recently posted and not by what Facebook thought we’d be interested in. There was a time when followers of any given…

07/22/2015

Options to using Adobe Photoshop are appearing more often, and some of them are quite good, like Affinity Photo. If you only have a little light editing to do, try out one of these free on-line photo editors. http://www.photographybay.com/2015/07/16/7-free-online-photo-editors-that-work-in-your-browser/

While professional and serious amateur photographers are going to have an established workflow in which they process their photos. A lot of us though don't always need the top tools to simply fix a...

03/23/2015

Pantone defines the global colour trend of 2015 http://www.designboom.com/design/pantone-color-of-the-year-2015-marsala-12-04-2014/

color company pantone has selected 'marsala' as the color of the year for 2015.

01/28/2015

In a world awash in images, professionally captured images still stand out. http://blog.wppionline.com/2015/01/why-pros-matter-their-photos-says-study-are-more-memorable/

08/20/2014

A great resource for photography projects. http://resourcemagonline.com/2014/08/fotofund-photographers-only/

Last week, the non-profit organization, The Lucie Foundation, unveiled their new crowd funding platform Fotofund. For those of you living under a rock and are that unfamiliar with the term, crowd funding is exactly what it sounds like, projects that are funded by the general population— the most fam…

05/18/2014

A prime example of how subscriber software can damage professionals who need to meet deadlines. Adobe Creative Cloud experiences major outage. Glad I stuck with the older paid version, which is not dependent upon Cloud services. http://mashable.com/2014/05/15/adobe-creative-cloud-down/

Adobe's Creative Cloud has been experiencing a massive outage for more than 18 hours that has been affecting users throughout the US, Europe and Asia.

05/11/2014

Answering a question few people ask :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9tEjGgeN5I&feature=share&list=UUuw8B6Uv0cMWtV5vbNpeH_A&index=1

Easy to follow tuition on 20 DVDs from World renowned How-To Look Pro Expert, Kai Wong III, covering every aspect of looking like a pro. Now for the first ti...