#FF Funky Friday.

There's no doubt...I'm underdressed. I shall be walking to the shop later using a few of these moves. That'll definitely freak out the neighbours. Enjoy, enjoy, and enjoy again:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g7KawdsVSQ...

Wave-particle duality.

Now you know what is the best camera to use to take compelling award-winning images, you might also need to know a wee bit about another essential component of photography. Light. (All you grizzled old pros......

Photography: cloud sourced learning..

Learning © John MacPherson   I like the #phonar idea. Open access to learning, compelling content, great tutors, and talented guest lecturers......

The meaning of life.

"Suicide is painless" so the song lyrics would have us believe. It's not. A friend of mine tried to end her life under a train, tearing herself apart, literally, in the process, but surviving.......

Disability is not inability.

December 3rd is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. And do you know what the uniting factor across the world actually is? All these folks are able. Simple. Often all they need to......

Gordon got it..

"I chose my camera,"as a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all forms of social wrongs.” But he went on: “the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show......

#FF Funky Friday.

You are officially allowed to kick back and turn this up. It's not five to five - it's not crackerjack, (showing my age a bit there) but it is 20 past four, and it......

My own personal photography hero: Jes Aznar.

Look at Jes's work; understand a little bit about the part of the world he works in, the dangers, the complete lack of rewards for his work, and then you'll understand why he's......

The balance of nature.

Winter light, Loch Pityoulish © John MacPherson   .........balance......... I've noticed there's a lot of it in nature. Like this scene. Cloud hole with......

Prisoners of the Himalayas.

It's great when you stumble into some corner of the web and a window to a part of the world you know very little about is opened to you.  I was completely captivated by......

#FF Funky Friday.

It's never too early for a bit of funk. Well, it's always too early for my stuck up neighbours, but they can just funk off. Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6II4xNiyQE...

Women, academia and ‘the risk of blogging’.

A bright future © John MacPherson In a week when the Church of England demonstrated that they interpret the term ...

The light fantastic.

I love light. It fascinates me. Always has. I watched the light streaming in the primary school window when I was a wee boy and marvelled at the swirling patterns it created on the wall.......

One place left – final duckrabbit photofilm workshop of 2012.

“I left the duckrabbit course full of enthusiasm and confidence. It must have worked because only my second attempt at gathering material for a photofilm made the front page of the Guardian website.” Emma......

The Mine Kafon.

An idea sparked by a toy, then made real by Massoud Hassani, and documented by Callum Cooper. Brilliant. When we were young we learned to make our own toys. One of my favourites......

User Generated Content & standards in journalism.

Very interesting explanation by Fergus Bell of AP over on Poynter about how they 'validate' and 'verify' User Generated Content. Tactics being used in Syria, according to Bell, include activists holding “up a sign......

#FF Funky Friday.

True dat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDXgYFWpJLc...

Dear Auntie Beeb…...

Dear Auntie Beeb - you don't know me, I'm only a little boy, but my daddy has told me all about you. He says you're the only Auntie we've got who never makes promises......

Are you one of the crowd?.

"But the recent failure of crowd-sourced news photos of Hurricane Sandy, and the shortage of coverage of other climate change-fueled disasters around the world, demonstrate how far we are from truly democratizing the medium......