Hidden stories: Where to now……..?.

Going nowhere. © John MacPherson   I often wonder.....when I see unusual things....what happened? How did this get to be what it......

Another photo competition…...

© CIWEM   ...but this time one that shows how it should be done, and can be done. It's the Atkins/CIWEM 'Enviromental......

History, place and people.

A few years ago I wandered over a remote hillside above a secluded sea loch on the west coast of Scotland, one that few people walk into given the rough terrain, preferring the ease......

Snow business.

https://vimeo.com/54035990#at=0   You don't need to be a skier to appreciate this, especially the cinematography and post-production work some of which is amazing. Some of these shots are stunning. But the skiing is impressive too!...

Robbery on the high seas?.

Jolly Roger © John MacPherson   Cruises? Ah yes, the lure of the open ocean, exotic destinations, loads of fun, and of......

Instagram, women, shaving and censorship..

Type in 'offensive instagram images' to Google and this is what comes back, top of the pile (well it did when this post was written): ...

African-American fathers.

Guy Miller, Bronx, NY. Married......

I should have realized.

The whipping boy © John MacPherson I should have realized when the potential purchaser of my motorcycle seemed......

Watching the Birdie.

    Hi RSPB -  I note that you have changed the Terms and Conditions of the Nature Photography Competition, and that they are......

Flipping the bird.

Photo competitions? Yes I remember them. You entered, the organizers respected your intellectual property, sought carefully worded copyright permissions from you to enable limited usage by them in connection with the competition, rewarded you with......

Fabienne Cherisma: Visual Forensics.

Duckrabbit posted a link to an original article by Pete Brook a couple of years ago, in which he (Pete) investigated and analysed the chronology of the image-making of the body of......

Man and machine.

My mate Tom takes grinders to vehicles.Whacking into them with overwhelming confidence and enthusiasm, and firing sparks everywhere. One winter I helped him stuff a twin cam Fiat engine into a small red......

Love in exile, and a gun..

His powerful arms enveloped me, and Luis wept. His broad frame shuddering as he sobbed uncontrollably, childlike, squeezing me tighter and tighter as if for comfort as he spoke, almost choking on his words.......

Embarrassed.

What can I say. Watch. Listen. Learn. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KiS8q_fifa0...

In praise of clouds: Nimbus 2.

Watch this and go wow!  It starts to really shift at 1:38 secs - worth cranking the volume up for and going full screen. Great edits and use of music. Well done Jim Bailey. https://vimeo.com/73184056...

The bittersweet taste of exile.

Image © Diana Markosian I stumbled into Diana Markosian's website the other day. I was moved. It's  been a while since......

“Cut away all the bits that don’t look like a fish”.

Oh fish where are thou? © John MacPherson When teaching night class students, and workshop participants,......

It was September.

It was September. We were going to the island of Coll just off the west coast of Scotland, a group of friends, seakayakers all of us. We departed from Oban with too many kayaks piled on......

We live, we learn. We teach..

Ice © John MacPherson When I was in primary school I struggled. I had ideas, observed things, thought about them, tried to......

The story of a house.

I lobbed another bag of clothes onto the fire. They joined the cushions, pillows, and a mattress that were already being consumed, prompting a sheet of flame to flare gloriously, sparks sailing high above......