Picture This: We Can End Poverty….

"It is particulary disappointing that two organisations so closely associated with photography should be content to support a contest which undermines the rights of all who take photographs.We are also dismayed that judges......

Legless.

THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS IMAGE. WHICH IS WHY IT IS IN MONO, AND EXCESSIVELY BURNED IN. AND WHY I AM SHOUTING. ...

We are away from our desks...

Training in London... Working with Laura and Alex from MSF's Geneva office. Here's a snap of Laura finding out about cigars in a wonderful little shop in Covent Garden. ...

Boston Big Picture vs BP.

I tried to think of something clever to put here. Pointless. LOOK. ...

“I will take a professional photo of anything (within reason) for $5”.

From here. I might just go for the $5 beef jerky recipe instead. It probably won't leave such a bad taste in my mouth. Or, even better, I could be made to look......

Slowcoast…epic.

Last night I was lucky enough to listen to Nick Hand talking briefly about his wonderful project slowcoast whereby he cycled the coast of Great Britain. Nick was talking at one of......

Life.Still: Bristol festival of Photography event opening night.

Here's another heads up to one of the many sweet events making up the Bristol Festival of Photography extravaganza. I've just spent a very pleasant evening looking at the 25 or so pieces which......

Foster care fortnight..make a real difference.

Today is the start of Foster care fortnight. The UK needs 10000 more foster carers, and you could be one. If you really want to make a difference to a child's life spend some time......

A sense of perspective...

I saw this and I thought of you......

Accuracy of captions, lesson 101..

There have been a fair few examples recently of photographers not captioning their images properly. There is no excuse for this...your captions must be as accurate as you can make them. If you don't......

One body, One lens, One roll, One challenge.

Great little idea this from Colin Edwards.. Basically, the deal is this. You take one camera body, one fixed lens, one roll of film, preferably mono 'cos you'll be devving it yoursen, and you......

Bristol photo festival – open slideshow call for entries.

An old colleague of mine from back in the day sent me a little note asking that I would highlight a great project that he's involved in. John Angerson is helping run an......

Snakes in conference.

"There was a three-foot-long black snake in the main conference room the other day." Now, I've been in a fair few hairy editorial conferences...never enjoyable, but I've never had to deal with that sort of......

Getty buys Rex. Epic Fail..

The Selby's have caved in. Bollocks. Bollocks and triple bollocks. Nice retirement for Mike and the family. Shithouse for the snappers. ...

Some geezer called Yelland writes:.

" In so many ways, a vote for the Lib Dems is a vote against Murdoch and the media elite."...

Kerrang! Bauer loses it’s Mojo…..

Ok...I know that post title makes no sense really, but it looks better than my previous effort, which was something along the lines of 'Bauer are naughty, don't supply them...' At last there......

How to miss a news picture...

I was just reading this post on the Torygraph about some lad chucking an egg at 'Dave' Cameron. I found the accompanying pic amusing...chimping whilst simultaneously watching the pic of the campaign (so far)......

Business time.

Well, it's been a while. And I'm getting this in for levity before the heavy stuff to come. ...

“Ashes to Ashes” election posters – the guilty parties.

Well, no-one's taken me up on my £50. Not that I expected them to, but I would happilly have paid up. Now this goes a bit further....take a look.... "Stop43 has learned that at......

Photographers…anyone…don’t get metal in your eye. Please..

That is a tip for today. Had to have a rusty shard removed at the wonderful Bristol eye hospital, with a needle. Very scary, but very quick, thank goodness. And yes, I was wearing goggles...dunno how......