Perk up (part 2).

G'day to you all. It's about time you played this, REALLY LOUD. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gIFm5earUY...

Wannabe hack? Are you good or turgid?.

"I keep getting told there is an over-supply of qualified people wanting to do journalism. Well, maybe there is but there’s definitely not an over-supply of people who are any good." Ouch. Alan Geere (Editorial......

Perk up.

"I often hear people talking about the second half of the 20th Century as the Golden Age of journalism.  But to my mind it was only the Bronze Age: primitive and crude,......

New Wildlife Photographer Awards brouhaha.

Blimey. Looks like Christopher Meyer's  shots may have been photoshopped after all.....

I want one of these:.

Er, I mean my son does. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksHL6A37e6c&feature=related...

Contemporary Russian photography.

The International Portfolio Review for Russian Photographers sounded damn interesting. Lens Culture have a write up about some of the photographers they met and the work they were impressed by...and fine work......

iPhone 5 camera is square format..

Supposedly this pic is one of the first taken with the new iPhone 5. We can therefore assume it shoots only in square format. Can't we?...

NCTJ Photo exhibition, Sheffield..

"As part of the NCTJ’s 60th anniversary celebrations, a temporary public photography exhibition which showcases quality press photography and photojournalism from NCTJ-trained photographers will be on display at The Winter Gardens, Sheffield, from......

Freetard or visionary? (Via BJP).

We had Jonathan Worth come down to our recent Hinterlands workshop to talk to our students. He's a really great bloke and fascinating to listen to...not to mention handy with a Mamiya. To......

Handy?.

I was looking for a prosthetic limb maker when I found this: "veterans from a post-World War I workshop at Walter Reade Army Medical Center demonstrate new attachments for their prosthetic limbs" ...

Fantastic collection of pro gay marriage signs:.

Get yourself over here for a good laugh. Unless you're homophobic that is. If so, piss off. Thanks. ...

Awesome: Astronomy photographer of the year 2011.

This is quite frankly an astonishing photofilm on the Beeb...wonderful to have a talk through on the images, and the images themselves...well...words fail me. Epic. Click the image for the show. ...

#FF Funky Friday.

This tune is one of my favourite things. Mmmm.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXTMey8kY7E...

A3 photo printer for sale..HP photosmart Pro B9180.

Rather an incongruous duck post this....   I have the above printer for sale, in mint condition, I only bought it to print two portfolios on, so it's done less than 100 A3 prints. It is awesome......

Alamy give students 100% of fees….

Yep, you read that right. Now, I don't suggest you are going to get rich supplying Alamy. You're very unlikely to get rich being a photographer. However, every little helps, and fingers in lots......

BJP ON IPAD FTW.

Whoop. The phenomenal BJP is now available on the ipad as a bespoke quarterly app. That's got to be a good thing...the magazine has been going from strength to strength and it's great to......

How to do street photography.

Matt Stuart is the most self effacing, funniest and skilled street photographer I have had the pleasure of listening to. I suppose his approach resonates with me, which is why I like it. He'll......

How not to do street photography...

Each to their own and all that, but here's a tip...unless you want a fat lip and a load of crap pictures, don't do street photography like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6MHSdAjFns...

“It is equivalent to every male in the UK dying a bachelor.”.

Bam...that's a strong enough fact to get half the feature editors in the UK pricking up their ears. Fascinating piece from the Guardian: "The normal human birth ratio is 106 males for every 100......

Photographers…fight for your moral rights. That means you..

As the snippet on the EPUK news bulletin put it: "Hargreaves ignored our proposals re moral rights, denying us basic protection against our work being orphaned. It's as if there was a law allowing......