Photo Fads and Photo Histories
Photo Fads and Photo Histories.

Every few months the feeds and sites I subscribe to will briefly fill with talk of some new photographic fad. My interest in these gimmicks and trends is pretty limited. Most are dull in......

I should have realized.

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

#FF Funky Friday.

Now is indeed the time for you to show some love. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSxV0YQuHCU...

Watching the Birdie.

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

The Last Stand.

  A real pleasure to get to Marc Wilson's 'The Last Stand' exhibition in London last week.  I like......

#FF Funky Friday.

Sister Goose and the Ducklings on duckrabbit. Find that sentence again. Groove away brothers and sisters, puppies and goslings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JusNyHdH1Do...

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......

A heartfelt message from Nick @cobbing
A heartfelt message from Nick @cobbing.

This is Sini Saarela, a young activist from Finland. I made this picture of her high above the site of a nuclear power station, on......

#FF Funky Friday.

Yes it is. Get up for the down beat. It gives you a whole new way of looking at the day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83do2qf6JEs...

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...

#FF Funky Friday.

Today's #FF Funky Friday message is clear. No argument there. Get your groove on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VntbbVmgJs...

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”
“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,......

“The girls bash the fellas up sometimes…”.

Great to see recent duckrabbit trainee Ralph Hodgson's photofilm 'Boxing your way out of trouble' featured......

#FF Funky Friday.

Yep..I know. If I want to post a #FF Funky Friday on #SS Sunday, I can, aaaaiiigghhtt?   For some reason the funky wordpress backend wouldn't let me embed a couple of days ago, so I......

It was September
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......