Lay Me Down.

Still shivering from catching Cold Specks last night:   http://youtu.be/iakh1pX7pxg...

Photographers…read this:.

Unless you want to assign them your copyright for £35....

Prince Charles reacts to news that he has to tell all about his oyster farms:.

The Duchy of Cornwall has been ordered to tell all about the environmental impact of non native oysters it has introduced to the Port Navas Oyster farms near Falmouth, Cornwall. Any photographers near Falmouth......

Blimey…just imagine….

I thought I was dreaming for a moment. I am a huge advocate of collaboration, but the Guardian? and the Mail? Whatgwan? Where could that lead? The brothers Milliband in bikinis? I shudder at the thought. Then......

#FF Funky Friday.

Damn. 'Catch me if you can'. Sweet as honey. Start at 30 seconds in, unless you're into the Sound of Silence, which is a tune for another day, maybe. The official video, here, is unembeddable,......

Here’s a game the Financial Times Newsroom have been playing.

Find the New York Times paywall. It's harder then you think, although there are reports of a sighting in Kentucky. (and if you want to find out what other games FT newsroom gets up to follow ...

One of the dangers of news orgs reporting something before it happens.

is that sometimes it doesn't happen. Read the headline and then the Breaking News on the screengrab  I've just taken from the BBC News Website. Reporting something as about to happen, even when the story is......

Get paid to publish photographs….

... not your own, obviously. Just get somebody to pay you for you publishing their photographs.I read this comment on Flak Photo Network, which is an interesting (albeit somewhat chaotic) resource on Facebook: "A......

Vogue Lets Indian Poor Fendi For Themselves.

It seems that Vogue have decided to develop a Social Responsibility Programme, by photographing exclusive designer bags and clothing being modelled by the Indian poor. Classy. Vogue India editor......

Photo Hack.

A note from Aaron Schuman (shared via Facebook's Flak Photo Network) "Hi All, Just a warning - someone is apparently trying to infiltrate and defraud the photography community...firstly someone started posing......

There’s no such thing as talent..

Bollocks, right?   Nope.   If you don't believe me, and I can tell you don't, get yourself a copy of 'Bounce' by Matthew Syed. In it, he argues conclusively that practice, practice, practice and more practice......

Balloons of Bhutan.

Ahh I love serendipity!  Just a few hours ago I flagged up Jonathan Harris work and by coincidence this morning he sends me details of his new (old) work now online!   As an antidote to......

@magnumphotos ditches the photographers.

For a while Magnum have been running a series of (highly priced) weekend seminars. Next month they come to my home town of Birmingham. I just had a look at the list of speakers......

“They did not know it was impossible …..

so they did it." - Mark Twain Thanks Louise....

5 top tips for making a cracking photofilm.

Good advice here from ourkid Mike. 'START SIMPLE. ALL YOU REALLY NEED IS SOME PHOTOS, SOME AUDIO, AND A STORY' ...

Save The Children is stalking me.

This bloody advert is following me EVERYWHERE I go on the web. Not just today but for days on end. So much so I'm thinking about taking out an injunction, or else selling my......

WTF?.

Wherever I go in the world I often find myself defending my work from the conspiracy that Jewish people own and run the media for their own 'evil' agenda (not because I'm Jewish, cause......

Win Win.

A lovely idea. ...

London discovers photography.

There's an article in today's Observer entitled "Britain's photographic revolution", which, as it only mentions the work of large institutions based in London, should be entitled either "London discovers photography" or "London ratifies......

Alone.

ALONE Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don't believe I'm wrong That nobody, But nobody Can make it out here......