From the ridiculous (see last post ) to the sublime.

Boston.com's 'The Big Picture' is a thing of wonder.  Alan Taylor, who edits it, has both an eye and a heart for the world. I've just stumbled across a particularly powerful gallery on the......

duckrabbit presents ‘Five ways to kill a man’.

There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man. You can make him carry a plank of wood To the top of a hill and nail him to it. To do this Properly you require a crowd of......

Nine times out of ten a picture in a paper is a quick hit,.

bang it tells its story and then its gone again. The problem is so many thoughtful photos get left behind. It's frightening how little we see of the pictures that really matter. I only became aware of......

BBC audio slideshow – Lalibela, surely one of the wonders of the world?.

duckrabbit thinks Karoki Lewis makes a excellent traveling companion to one of the great wonders of the world, the rock hewn churches of Lalibela in Ethiopia. Rarely do slideshows give you a sense of 'being......

(audio slideshow) “The people of Gaza are looking for one thing,.

peace." Ibrahim Barzak, AP Chief Correspondent Gaza City (spot the difference in the two pictures) ...

(audio slideshow) “I’m the guy who puts the smile on your face,.

other places you just look dead." Lets face it painting up rigormortis in a funeral home isn't my idea of a fun Saturday morning sport, neither is it something I really want to watch over my......

You don’t need to take sides.

you just need to be the right side of human. ...

Audio Slideshow – “They surrounded us with a wall on all sides,.

it's like living in a tomb." Its a powerful image of a harsh life lived by Christian Arabs in Bethlehem, found in this audio slideshow  by Martha Rial in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. We only......

It ain’t just black and white baby ….

Well that's proof for me. The Guardian is running an exclusive set of photos by Zalmai 'Exclusive photography by Zalma?Ø of the Nakivale refugee camp in Uganda. The settlement hosts 34,000 refugees mainly from......

DuckRabbit’s David White on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

The Today programme is according to wikipedia ' the most influential news programme in Britain', which makes me wonder why has it taken so long to get David White on the show? Fingers crossed he'll......

I loves you Porgy ….

Ever since I discovered her in Bob's Record Mart, a ramshackle second hand music shop down a back alley in Nottingham, I've always felt lucky to have Nina Simone in my life. Alongside......

Are you at home amongst the dead?.

They say that you don't get much foreign news in America but I've watched some really great audio slideshows on American news sites that focus on foreign stories.  Who can forget Carol Guzy's......

just don’t say I didn’t black and white you ….

Yesterday on duckrabbit I alluded to the fact that I sometimes wish we saw more color photos of Africa, particularly when we see images of conflict.  Someone from Australia wrote to me saying 'who......

I am trying to break your heart (part seven).

In the past I've been mildly critical of some of Media Storm's productions, pretty much peerless in production values though they are. They always look......

Stan Banos – on duckrabbit.

Natural writers are few and far between so when I started raving about the words on the blog Reciprocity Failure I was being entirely sincere. Stan Banos' blog is so much more intelligent then......

Pushkar Camel Fair – audio slideshow by Art Wolfe.

duckrabbit thinks that this is a fantastic example of how to create a sense of place in an audio slideshow. So many audio slideshows are turned into a borefest by a reporter laconically reading......

‘The Fallen’ – this is why the BBC matters.

Benjamin I pretty much never watch TV. For most of my life I haven't even owned one.  Not that I have anything against TV, I love it. That's the problem.  No TV, problem solved. Saturday......

duckrabbit interview and audio slideshow on New Radio Strategies.

Benjamin Nice to see the excellent website New Radio Strategies turning to duckrabbit for a discussion on whether audio slideshows are the future of radio? Clearly not. Radio is the future of radio, but......

Nothing to do with photography but.

its Saturday night and I just couldn't resist: this is a real question by the way I came across on the web....