Depression and Josh Ritter.

Some of you may know that after coming back to the UK from living in Ethiopia duck fell into a depression. I learned that there is no shame in going under. For me coming......

Should have started at 99p and no reserve….

God knows how long it would take to recoup a quarter of a million dollars at todays stock prices......

Visa Pour l’Image, a festival of ‘shanty towns without context’.

This is a really interesting segment from a press conference given by the photographer William Klein at the Visa Pour L'image festival. Well done Olivier Laurent of BJP for capturing......

Aristotle on Final Cut Pro.

As promised last week, here is a quote from Aristotle on Final Cut codecs... I managed to get hold of him just as he was off to the baths: "Learning is not child's play; we......

DSLR’s and the BBC.

Whatever your take on the BBC they've just come up trumps for anyone shooting with the latest dslr cameras, more specifically, the Canon 5D Mark......

I’m not sure who is cooler.

Paul Simon or the little girl. (thanks Pete, this cheered me up no end) ...

Photofilm – Surviving The Drought.

This is a very short photofilm that David and I threw together during our training here in Kenya. We wanted to demonstrate to the wonderful people at ILRI that you can build......

Nairobi duty free...

Now here's an offer that's hard to refuse... How many bums does one person need? Or hips? I'll take 3 extra of each please. Is......

Capturing ‘piles of moments’ with a daguerrotype.

Japanese photographer Takashi Arai works with daguerreotypes, an old photographic technique which he says record......

The power of the image…..

For those with an overly text heavy website, surely this is applicable to you also: "only twelve percent of the people who pick up a news-paper read a story on the front page if no......

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The new Noctilux?.

Can't quite stretch to a new Noctilux? Let's face it, who can ( unless you're a minted intern).. Well, if you've got a micro four thirds camera, such as the wonderful Panasonic GH-1, which......

New cracking digital recorder.

One thing I'm just starting to realize through our training is that tonnes of people seem to buy a digital recorder and then plug an external microphone into it. In most instances this is almost......

The Quarry.

At the end of the second day of our photofilm training here in Nairobi we stopped off at a quarry. David and I had just short of an hour to see if we could find......

Shakespeare on storytelling.

I am feeling inspired by David's quote by William Blake. Anyone who attends a duckrabbit training will know I talk a lot about Shakespeare.  If you can't learn something about storytelling from the greatest ever......

William Blake on Photofilms..

I could have chosen one of many, many William Blake quotes. I was going to put one up about infinity or somesuch, but the one below resonated due to the fact Ben and......

Photofilm – Liquor or gravy?.

Erdal Redjep is one of the (many) stand out students on the Masters in Photojournalism at LCC. I suggested he bounce his work up to the BBC and it's great to see them publishing......

Lovely Facebook Contradiction.

A Facebook spokeswoman said: "We can't comment on individual cases for privacy reasons but I can tell you that one group, entitled Death to Mary Bale, has been removed today." ...