The first weekend in April I headed up to the Botanic Gardens, 100mm macro in hand, ready to go for my ‘cycle of life’ type project for SoFoBoMo. I’ve been up there a million times, in all seasons, and never fail to come home satisfied. I like to think of it as my ‘spiritual home’. […]

It’s almost like those discussions about style that do the rounds every once in a while, wondering about meaning in photography. I suppose it’s something you naturally consider once you get to a certain stage in your own photographic development (ugh, pun definitely not intended) and start to consider what it’s all about, maybe you […]

I think it’s easy to forget in the build up to this that it was generally intended as something of an exercise – the fact that you”’re shooting all the images within the space of a single month (or less, depending on how long you need for processing and editing) has a good chance of […]

I‚Äôve just read Ian Roberts‚Äô Creative Authenticity and it‚Äôs given me loads of thinking fodder. I don‚Äôt necessarily agree with all his opinions as set out in the book, but I don‚Äôt like to let that stop me from taking something useful from it anyway. Even if I don‚Äôt agree with something ‚Äì that‚Äôs a […]

Just a little quote from Creative Authenticity by Ian Roberts – in the fifteenth ‘chapter’ he talks about “Finding poetry in the everyday” and says this: We can be more moved than a small intimate landscape or a still life of two cherries than by a huge painting of the Grand Canyon. Look at the […]

There was an interview with Laura Letinsky that I read sometime last week. She‚Äôs one of those photographers that has me interested, then the rational part of my mind kicks in and says ‚Äúhang on, it‚Äôs just a plate of leftovers on a dirty tablecloth‚Äù and I struggle to take it seriously. Whatever I think […]

The SoFoBoMo projects seem to be gaining momentum in the blog circles, even though we aren’t actually going to actually do the thing until April – but there’s plenty of planning and speculation doing the rounds nonetheless. It’s sensible, obviously, to try and get as much of the mechanics sorted out before the actual execution […]