98% operator and 2% equipment.

I’m calling it as I see it.  DSLR video is a fad – at least in solo video journalism it is.  Plain and simple.  There are many who have become enamoured......

‘Ethics and photojournalism’.

This is an extract taken from a very interesting post by the wonderful photographer  Stuart Freedman. You can read the full post on the excellent EPUK website. The presiding styles of photo......

Intimate audio.

Have you checked out the daily blog Someone Once Told Me? It's a collection of photographs where the subjects are holding up a phrase someone once told them, that has somehow affected their......

unconcerned but not indifferent.

"In the final analysis we were choosing between a French landscape, a dead guerrilla, an HIV positive mother and an American soldier. A strange task. Rather predictably the majority vote went to Tim Hetherington’s......

Too good to be true?.

John Edwin Mason has been one of the unsung heroes of the photo blog world. Personally he's been a great source of inspiration, support and wisdom to duckrabbit. But I really think he's lost......

duckrabbit are in Rome all this week.

eating pizza, drinking beer and if we can find the time training a cracking bunch of people at Bioversity's centre. ...

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. ...

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

The BBC is reporting that the author Alan Sillitoe has died. Alan grew up in the slums of Nottingham and retained his anger at the struggle of so many working class families.......

World’s worst tourism poster?.

More disturbing info here....

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......

If you dream of studying with one of the all time great photographers.

Who also happens to be one of the most inspiring teachers around. Then  why don't you just do it? ...

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The daily death toll at the border city of Ciudad Juarez now exceeds that of Baghdad Stan Banos on BagNewsNotes ...

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. ...

Meet Sami….

...a bright and gregarious 18 year old I met last week. Sami is also a young carer, who provides crucial support to both......

The cats out the bag.

and looking good: ...

Robert Gumpert, Take A Picture,Tell A Story.

Proof that sometimes you need to hear the voice to really appreciate the photo. Click on the picture. ...

raw beauty – Iceland’s volcano.

Sometimes you have to just sit back and marvel at the power of Mother Nature. These photos by Icelandic photographer Ragnar Th. Sigurdsson of the......

God I love YouTube.

I saw Mike Scott (The Waterboys) on my 16th birthday playing solo at a festival. He blew me away. The Whole Of The Moon is one of the greatest songs ever written. The lyrics......