STEVE RAZZETTI MOUNTAIN PHOTOGRAPHY AND JOURNALISM

STEVE RAZZETTI MOUNTAIN PHOTOGRAPHY AND JOURNALISM

WELCOME!

MARCH 2012

Welcome to the updated razzetti.com site!

PROJECT VERONICA

A labour of love is going on here! After delaying for much too long I have bought the professional glass film-holder for my Nikon Coolscan 9000. I have also upgraded my scanning software to Silverfast Ai Studio 8. I realised that the two cases containing thousands of medium format transparencies in my office were going to do nothing for me until I digitized them. Agencies, magazines, publishers all refuse to accept film today, so I have started working my way through this material. It is a daunting task! But if I consider the years - twenty years! - that I carried Veronica the Bronica on my back the length and breadth of the Himalaya, I owe it to her to do this now. The times I dragged myself from a warm sleeping bag and tent before dawn, pulled on a down jacket and sprinted to a vantage point with cameras and tripod, the weight of all that kit in my pack over hundreds of passes...This is my story really, and looking at these pictures now I feel so satisfied! Digital fans eat your hearts out - these are now available from me as 48 bit uncompressed TIFF files, 8500x6500 pixels, each about 350Mb. And sharp !!

Look in the Himalaya section - Humla, Manaslu and Annapurna galleries - for colour, and the Pakistan monochromes for black and white. I have published a book - PAKISTAN ZINDABAD!! - of these, available from www.blurb.com

More images are being uploaded almost daily, so please check back!