Who Moved my Narrative? Narrative in Photography is not dead, it’s simply that the ways we come across photography rarely encourage it. Is social media even capable of sustaining narrative? This article is a bringing together of several seemingly unrelated strands I have been thinking about recently. Things that I have been doing in my…
This post is in part a response to an article on the United Nations of Photography blog on the photographic mid-life crisis. It’s (The post not the crisis) an interesting take on the industry today and the position career photographers find themselves in as they progress. That article addresses commissioned photographers in particular. I’d like…
In this post, I’m looking at Artificial Intelligence and trying to answer the question “Does AI improve Photo Processing?” Is it just another smart way of selling software or is it the revolution it aspires to be? Does AI Improve Photo Processing? Does AI improve photo processing? Is an AI processed image a photograph? Is…
Photographing Shrewsbury in infrared is an accidental project I’ve almost stumbled into. I had an unloved Canon 550 D lying around in the studio and decided to have it converted with an infrared filter. A few photographs later I realised two things. Firstly what a great camera the 550D was and secondly how much fun…
Writing about 10 great photography magazines online makes me a hostage to fortune i know but, inspired by a thread entitled Show of hands: How many of you regularly read photography blogs and/or websites? on Andy Adam’s excellent Flak Photo group on Facebook, I thought I’d tidy up the magazine section in my bookmarks. A five-minute…
I’m a photographer and technologist based in Shropshire & Andalucia. 6 am is the best time of the day. It’s too early for Shrewsbury to swing into action, although in Spain everyone is getting ready for work while the temperatures are cool. The house is quiet and the traffic outside is muted. It’s a time…