I want to say ‘thank you’…….

.....to all of you who have tweeted, emailed and contacted me in various ways with your messages of support after reading yesterdays post. Please know they are very gratefully received. I'm not going......

I can’t show you how lovely she looks..

I was looking out the window of the hospital Intensive Care Unit the day before yesterday. From a comfortable waiting room. I was on the second floor and looking at a flat roof covered......

Lest We Forget.

  William flies his small plane around the Commando Memorial, Spean Bridge © John......

Skid Row to Wall Street in under 3 minutes….

I think this is a great idea, nicely done. And there's a lovely moment when he sees himself in the mirror. Though I think his look of total skepticism......

#FF Funky Friday.

Chow down. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd1ywaNAPNw...

Colonialism and visual culture.

'Kongouro from New Holland' by George Stubb The paintings - Kongouro from New Holland and Portrait......

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......

#FF Funky Friday.

Here we are again, it's Friday, it's time for you to join me in digesting a bit of space funk. Interstellar, baby. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LJKlY7E8OU...

Unseeing Visual Culture: Social Media, Beheadings, Journalism and Flakes of Snow.

Last week Facebook inadvertently made headlines by reversing a policy on the posting of violent videos, arguing it’s users should be allowed to depict the ‘world in which we live’. The company suggested the......

Ask not what a camera can do for you, but what you can do with a camera?.

This is a message, and a wonderful act of generosity by Jim Mortram (published on his site here). Today, as I rode up and waited for my Father who had an appointment with......

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......

#FF Funky Friday.

Afrika Bambaataa disrupting your Friday. In a fine, fine way. TURN IT UP.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxlfLtwVE2Q    ...

‘The first time I set foot in the Arctic, Paul was waiting outside the tiny airstrip, to collect me,’ @cobbing.

The first time I set foot in the Arctic, Paul was waiting outside the tiny airstrip, to collect me, calmly smoking a cigarette in......

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): ...

Just saying ….

'Photo Op, as their photomontage is called, has become the definitive work of art about the war that started with the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Ten years on from that war's......

#FF Funky Friday.

mmm...full vinyl warmth..can't argue with that. (unless you're the © holder...) Let a man do what he wanna do. Sounds fantastic...the tune that is. The proposition itself could lead to all sorts of mischief. As an......

African-American fathers.

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