Once again, with the assistance of my friends Licheng and Andy, late last week Issue #10 of my SCOTT eNewsletter rolled off our virtual press and landed in thousands of inboxes around the world.

Headlining this edition was photography I captured for Nikon Asia of American folk and roots musician, Ben Taylor (son of famous musicians James Taylor and Carly Simon), on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.  Together with my creative partners, Mike Rogers and Meghan Shea, we spent three remarkable days with Ben at his home, visiting his studio where he shared with us the sources of his creative inspiration and his songwriting process.  In addition to this imagery is a behind-the-scenes video that Mike made to compliment the Nikon campaign.

I also chose to share a daily photographic journal that Meghan and I created when we spent a week documenting our friend, Sam McGoun, as he swam, cycled and ran more than 670km across Cambodia to raise awareness of, and help to fight against, human trafficking.  As the documentary photograph- and film-making team tasked with chronicling Sam’s odyssey, we did our best to keep pace with him as he dove into snake-filled lakes, crossed muddy rivers, ran through small villages and pedaled

across the countryside of rural Cambodia on his way to raising more than USD$30,000 for charity.  Together with Mike, we also created a short making-of video of our Cambodian adventure.

Finally, I included a collection of personal iPhoneography I made while on holiday in Canada with my young nieces this past summer.  This work is both a visual diary of the times we shared and an observation on the ephemerality of childhood, rendered how I chose to witness our moments together  -- inquisitively, spontaneously and lovingly -- through the tiny lens of my iPhone camera.

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The previous nine issues of my SCOTT eNewsletter -- showcasing a variety of my travel, portrait, fashion, lifestyle and advertising photography over the past two years -- remain online and you can peruse them here.

As adults, time seems to race past us, every year feeling shorter than the last.  There never seems to be enough time in our days, and as grown-ups we unfortunately have a tendency to mark the passage of time with such trivial milestones as rent payments, work deadlines and annual visits to the dentist.

But as children it was different; school days passed in slow motion, Christmas Eve was the longest night of the entire year and summers seemed to last forever.

I will be 38 years old this year, and I can still remember the summer holidays of my childhood in brilliant detail: eight glorious weeks filled with such carefree joys as waterskiing on the lake, building tree forts in the forest, racing my bicycle along muddy trails, staying up late in the tent talking with my brother and then waking up early the next morning to go fishing with him as the sun rose.

I recently spent three magnificent weeks in Ontario, Canada with my family, including my three young nieces -- Carissa (5 years old), Brooke (6 years old) and Paige (8 years old) -- who were in the midst of their own joyful, carefree childhood summer.  It was magical for me to behold their boundless energy, marvel at their imagination, share in their wonder and indulge their curiousity.

Like last summer, on this visit I again abandoned my DSLR and instead carried my iPhone with me everywhere I went with the girls, making snapshots of the experiences we enjoyed together: running through the sprinkler, riding a ferris wheel, building a homemade camera, taking a sunset stroll, picking flowers, eating birthday cake, climbing on monkey bars, colouring pictures, leaping off swings...

This is a collection of those times we spent together, rendered how I chose to witness them -- inquisitively, spontaneously and lovingly -- through the tiny lens of my iPhone camera.

Carissa, Brooke and Paige are too young to understand how ephemeral these times are.  Ironically, it is their innocence that provides me the perspective and desire to document, capture and preserve a handful of the fleeting moments that make up the endless summers of their childhood.

See more of my iPhoneography elsewhere on this blog or on Flickr.

As anyone who's shot with me already knows, Lightroom is easily the most important piece of software in my digital photography workflow.

So, as I have written before, it was a great privilege when last year I was approached by Adobe, the makers of Lightroom, with opportunities for creative partnership and collaboration.

It started with an interest from Adobe in licencing the rights to use a selection of my photography on their Photoshop.com website, and it then progressed into working with Adobe's digital marketing agency, to be profiled in the "Spotlight" section of Photoshop.com.

I am extremely proud of my association with Adobe, which is why I am so pleased to share "Believe". Alongside talented and accomplished photographers Kelly Castro and Emily Ibarra (both of whom have also been profiled on Photoshop.com here and here respectively), "Believe" is an electronic direct marketing initiative by Adobe to promote Lightroom 3 and demonstrate how photographers like Kelly, Emily and I use it in professional photography environments.

Download Lightroom presets: "1970's Nostalgia" by me; "Polar Cream" by Kelly; and "Contrast & Vignette" by Emily.