Artists Online : Art : Painters : Peter Bastaja

Artists Online : Art : Painters : Peter Bastaja - a really great sight to check out. There are so many talented people out there!

Okay, so it's great weather for ducks, but sometimes you've just got to go with the flow. Get your gumboots on and capture something fun. Trying to stop your camera from getting too wet is the challenge.

Gotta love lava lamps. Captured using a canon 350D with a Holga lens as well as a canon 5D Mk II using a wide angle 17 - 40mm.

I have a wonderful husband and two beautiful children, but I am totally in love with photography and the visual arts. Is it in the genes?

My family is very ceative, my mother is especially very artistic. I can remember from a very young age my mother painting using oil paints or acrylics, whipping up artworks not for a profit but simply because she could. I grew to love art and think a perfect weekend must include at least one trip to a gallery.

Photography is a beautiful art from with one added bonus for the gadget junkies out there - there is a technical element that needs to be understood. That, for me, did not come naturally. A Diploma in Photography definitely gave me a much greater knowledge of the technical side of the craft.

Perhaps the artistic elements are more difficult to learn though. Can you simply 'google' a way of becoming artistic? Can we read books to help us experiment more with our photography and create a more expressive image? To a certain extent, I think we can.