The breast feathers of the falcon felt like warm silk in the palm of my hand, soft and delicate. The wild thumping heartbeat beneath the down betrayed the life that still fought within. It......
There was a time when the explosion of conflict in a part of the world like the Middle East or the Balkans triggered what now seems like a very old fashioned kind of concern.......
Image © Sgt Mike MacLeod/US Army "Do I care that this salute is spun out of......
I watched the Jacqui Morris documentary McCullin tonight. It's a searingly great and troubling film. Memorable, frame by frame. But I want to say this: It's not a film I've wanted to see. Mainly because I've become......
John H White © Scott Strazzante I read an interesting article in the BJP this week......
A little over a month ago I wrote a piece about the sponsorship of Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis, an exhibition of photographs of pristine natural wildernesses, by a Brazillian mining giant. This company, Vale, is......
I served an apprenticeship as a carpenter, but it was with the local joiner & undertaker, four years of learning how to change wood into various things: some items were purely functional, others beautiful,......
Well, it is where I am. Always is. Let this one light you up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdpGkCTwEhk...
Francesca Borri © Alessio Romenzi "Freelancers are second-class journalists—even if there are only freelancers here, in Syria, because this......
A couple of things over the last few weeks really got to me. One made me annoyed, another...well...just moved me, with good old emotion. But all of it made me stop, and think. First was......
Visions of the Universe Exhibition on at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich (one of my favourite London buildings).......
Watch this extraordianary clip in which Irish MP Clare Daly asks if Obama is going for the 'hypocrite of the century award', accusing him of being a 'war criminal' by supplying arms to the......
I developed a plan some years ago for a community woodland development. It involved various 'sculptures' made from two of my favourite creative materials, wood and glass, with a bit of stainless steel thrown......
Hmmm. Need a distraction? A little satisfaction? Alrighteethen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1fIqEnhN4Q...
There's got to be SOME good work out there......© John MacPherson The Banff Mountain Photography Competition was recently judged. Or not. I'm not entirely......
It's been a long time since work has pulled a tear to my eye and this morning I certainly wasn't expecting to have such a response to a film that follows Dutch photographer Marieke......
By the magnificently talented Brad Horn. There's a cracking interview with him about working for non profits here. http://vimeo.com/59248851...
Yes, It is business time. Unless business hours are over, baby. Always good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GpTTf175aE...
Over the years I've known a number of people who self-harm, more often than not cutting themselves. It's always something I've found really disturbing, to the point that my physical revulsion to the idea of......
Hull © John MacPherson When the winter maintenance was finished and his boat had been well scraped and cleaned, the yachtsman......