These days most of my interaction with other photographers takes place on blogs, flickr, and discussion forums, so the images are usually also online. But this weekend I took part in an exhibition – an open air, rent a section of park fence kind of exhibition, but still, it got my pictures out in front […]

There’s a new photo sharing site on the block. There’s a difference, though. This one screens your submissions. In theory, this is an idea that solves the problem of having to wade through millions of snapshots to get to stuff of higher quality, like you might say is the case with somewhere like flickr. It […]

I had started a few posts and trailed off, not really able to form cohesive paragraphs about what I’ve been thinking. In fact, I haven’t really formed any cohesive thoughts in a couple of months… But something has been in there, being subconsciously mulled over and growing a personality. It’s not come from any new […]

Just over a year ago, a couple of months after I went digital, I was eating some cherries and found a lovely pair that were still joined at the stalk. I took my nifty fifty (canon 50mm f1.8), and shot them on some white card, and on a glass plate – so there were no […]

One of the things that I’ve expressed frustration with recently is being unable to get away from the huge element of simplicity in my photography. If you look to the right at my latest stuff, you hardly need to view it larger than the thumbnails to get the gist… Annoyingly, it’s what I seem to […]

Reading Mark Graf’s ‘Notes From the Woods‘ blog, the title of this post caught my eye. It was one of those articles that clicked with something in my mind. It reminded me that I had actually started a train of thought on a similar subject last week, and forgotten all about it. Following on from […]

Before I launch into my ramblings, I’ll illustrate the source of the idea: This blog post linked to this discussion, and in particular, this quote from Ben Lifson: BUT WE MUST BE CAREFUL not to judge the value of a work either way, good or bad, by two things: ONE, How much or how little […]