UFO camera needed…can you help….

To build the perfect camera for photographing UFO's.? Aesthetically, it'd probably be on a 5x4 with a bit of front shift and an aero-ektar. Practically, it's probably your 'phone. If you can help with the perfect......

Picture in Bristol? £150 please..

Filming Permits The city of Bristol operates a permit system for all location filming and photography. Applications for a permit should be submitted to the Bristol Film Office as soon as......

Nothing to worry about...

All this hoo hah about printer ink cartridges being used as bombs. I don't think there's anything to worry about... Everyone knows that your ink cartridge will crap out right in the middle of an......

The Islamic Relief photo competition has been won by….

Er, no-one. I put a post up a good while ago now encouraging people to enter. Unfortunately the competition has quietly slipped away. I don't know why it went belly up, but there you go.......

Matt Stuart on NYTimes Lens blog.

Great to see the NYT picking up on Matt's wonderful street photography, via this humble blog no less: There's a bit of......

Caner corner..

George Michael jail release sparks Apple iPhone rage No, that's not a headline from the Daily Mail/Fail/Beast but from Amateur Photographer. "Snappy Snaps had also said it would welcome George Michael to......

Super stealth fail.

Here is a picture of the sub described as "the stealthiest ever built in the UK." So that's good. I think I can see it. "HMS Astute's commanding officer, Commander Andy Coles, said: "We have......

#FF Funky Friday.

Ok, you might think you recognise this tune. I bet you do...but probably only the intro which was half inched by some Fat bloke. Listen to that beautiful voice, and wonder at the rest of......

Eyecue vs1.01 @ The Crossing.

This is a daft exercise I assigned myself. I am interested in creating mini photofilms, called Eyecues, which last less than a minute. They are supposed to be audio visual versions of a Haiku. Duckrabbit......

Context and visual illusion….

Fascinating.... "context is everything when it comes to what we see, even when seeing the simplest qualities of the world" look at this cube...look at the middle tile in the face on top and nearest......

Antagonistic assertion of rights?.

"Getty Images is pursuing a copyright claim against the campaigns of two US Senate candidates – Sharron Angle and David Vitter – after they allegedly used one of its photographers’ images out of......

Mike Kamber on military censorship.

"I don’t feel that an accurate visual record of the war has really been set forth" Watch this and learn. ...

This is a picture of a dog in a bun. Barking..

Don't ask me why, I don't know on so many levels. ...

Pair o’ Hurns.

Lovely idea this. Have a look through the great David Hurn's archive on Magnum, and pair up a few photos. An upright to an upright, red one to a red one, something......

All hail Derek Pye…world’s best wedding photographer..

If you don't know Derek's EPIC wedding photography, you need to check it out. The man is quite simply a genius, and boy is he expensive. One of his top tips: "The Ten Second Rule -......

Camera-less photography...

Remember when you used to do photograms in the darkroom, back in the day? Seeing how your hand looked, a pair of scissors, a leaf or two.... No? Bollocks. Well, whatever, you young whipper snapper......

Pakistan’s first woman photojournalist: inspired by the husband she lost to war...

Saadia Sehar's story is tough. Really tough. Probably the worst way possible to become a photojournalist....

Down the local...

Great to see Harmit's piece on the Marquis of Lorne pub in Brixton on the BBC website. Tis a wonderful piece, spend a couple of minutes ( well, less actually) out of your......

Do you need a photo to prove this?.

Just looking at site stats when I saw this. I have been imagining someone perplexed and stressed at either not believing that bears shit in the woods or desperate to prove that they do.......