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duckrabbit
David White
Ciara Leeming
John Macpherson
Peter
Sara Trula
Carl Pendle
Joni Karanka
Mike Lusmore
Madeleine Corcoran

Last night I woke up sweating thinking that some of duckrabbit’s readers don’t know the answer to this question:

Could you believe they put a man on the moon?

Last night I got a late call from my mate Sam to tell me I just absolutely had to call round and sink a few beers whilst watching a doco about the moon landings.

How could I refuse?

I’ve never been that interested in how we put a man on the moon, but when you [...]

My First Crush

spotted this on vivacions blog

Sweet.

duckrabbit, some sweet news

duckrabbit has just got the nod for a grant from the warm and supportive people at the CBA. This means that we’ll be off to Bangladesh and the Maldives covering stories related to climate change. What’s really important is the money specifically supports a multimedia approach to photojournalism. It’s a recognition that there are fresh [...]

duckrabbit’s David White’s hidden life exposed

Always thought his photos were a bit Alan Partridge, now I know why:

DAVID WHITE:

Flippin’ ‘eck…where did you find that? I haven’t worked there for months…I had to leave due to upsetting the cleaning lady very early one morning. Hopefully she’s recovered by now.

Anyway, I’m best out of it. I couldn’t really [...]

Zen and the art of Sandcastles

Sometimes the real art is in letting go …

“It was like being a proper journalist again …. turning up in a town you’ve never been to and not being allowed to leave until you’ve got a story.“ Last Weekend duckrabbit ran its first multimedia training course at the Trinity Arts Centre, in Bristol, [...]

duckrabbit reader task – edit FOTO8 slideshow

Yo peeps …

One of the things duckrabbit would like to think we’re good at is editing. Mind you essentially we’re crowd pleasers. As a BBC Radio producer duckrabbit learned that you could make three dimensional, intellectually stimulating programmes that were also very popular. You just had to work bloody hard at it.

To me [...]

Time to turn the camera around on Africa

Think of Africa and you envision wild animals, conflicts, starving kids and suffering. On a whole, this continent hasn’t had the best of times in the past few hundred years. Whilst for some it might be a fact of life, for others it’s a rite of passage in an industry that thrives on misery and [...]

Favorite headlines (5&6)

Do I get extra points for finding a double whammy on the BBC today?

At the time these were the top stories on the worlds most popular news website! What that tells you is that a good headline writer is worth their weight in gold.

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Audio Slideshow – The Veterans

Of all the documentaries and features I made for BBC Radio none got to me more than the ones I made about the First World War. On Flanders fields I came to some small understanding of the ultimate sacrifice that so many men paid, and the cost to their loved ones at home. Walking those [...]

Favorite Headlines (reader submission)

THANKS TOAST

Good Old Un-Politically Correct Britain

Proof that the whole of Britain hasn’t fallen into a politically correct vacuum…..

Last week I attended a school fair in an underprivileged area of Bristol, a part of the city where apparently the sun’s rays don’t penetrate. So many pasty, white, tattooed, overweight, scarred people in one place, it felt unreal.

Police security tags, [...]

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” Albert Einstein

(c) Stan Banos

For questions, click here.

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again

Mark Page is one of the few genuinely thrilling voices to come out of blogging Britain. He’s the guy you want your kids to grow up reading but at the same time you’re glad he’s not their uncle.

Though we’ve never met, many, many times Mark has been the inspiration for this blog.

Ever lain [...]

duckrabbit multimedia storytelling training…

duckrabbit went to Weston Super Mare this weekend with our keen students. We had a great weekend, worked extremely hard, and Ollie and Ciara did themselves proud.

We will be publishing a full breakdown of the training and the wonderful results soon, but for the meantime, here is a pic I shot inside the Trinity [...]

Is this an own goal?

Having just seen the winner of The Press Photographer’s Year, I completely understand now why Kenyan photographers get totally pissed off so many of the photography jobs go to visitors to their country (NGO or otherwise).

The argument being that outsiders are better equipped to deliver (yeah right).

The winners photo was taken in Kenya. [...]

Anna S … Well done

That Anna Stevens must be a very humble girl because she forgot to mention on her terrific blog that that she won best multimedia in The Press Photographer Of the Year Award. Well she would have done if that they hadn’t been so backwards and put her name in brackets under that of the photographer.

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New York Times Photo Deception

The New York Times just pulled a series of photographs by Edgar Martins after discovering they had been digitally altered.

What a failing on their part to understand the digital space.

Anyone can be fooled by a photo but only someone with more bile than light would have a crack at the New York Times [...]

Favorite headlines – reader submission

Thanks Ciara

PERHAPS I AM WHACKO…. LISA HOGBEN

Perhaps I am weird because I have been incredibly touched by the death and mourning of the man known as the ‘King of Pop’.

Its probably not very cool, but hey, I am not very cool. I stayed up all night last night to watch his entire memorial service. After being at lots of memorial [...]