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Winner of the British Wildlife Photography Award

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This photograph by Richard Shucksmith was the overall winner of the British Wildlife Photography Awards. Definitely worth looking at all the other winning entries here.

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War Correspondence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I like this a lot. A representation of war that is restrained, thoughtful and moving. Images and words by war artist and former paratrooper Derek Eland. Full exhibition at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester.

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The lynx effect

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photographer Terje Hellesø, last year’s winner of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency’s Nature Photographer of the Year Award admitted this weekend that he’d faked the images, photoshopping images of wild [...]

Learn how to make photofilms in the heart of London 18-20 November

‘I loved Benjamin’s openess and honesty. His passion was so inspiring. I have done a number of multimedia workshops and duckrabbit was by far the best.’ – Brigitte Bouvier, Photographer

 

Thanks to Mariateresa, David, Niamh and Deborah for making the duckrabbit multimedia workshop in London last week such a good laugh [...]

Underbelly of the USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most of you will already know that US Photographer Darcy Padilla spent 18 years following the life and death of Julie Baird, charting her path through drug addiction, AIDS, poverty, prison, motherhood and death in the USA using both photography [...]

The Guardian picture editor having some fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This picture and caption. How long before Tony’s press office get in touch? Full article here.

Watch the slobber fly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weird and wonderful stop-action photos of pets shaking on down by US photographer Carli Davidson. [...]

Blast from the past.

Lovely time-lapse film of Icelandic landscapes during last year’s Eyjafjallajökull eruption. Production by Sean Steigemeier with a Canon 5D MkII and a Dynamic Perception motorised dolly. Love the wrecked plane…

 

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

Depends on whether you want to be splattered by blood and sweat or not…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Advice on choosing a seat at legendary London boxing venue York Hall. Audio slideshow by Tom Jenkins.

Street photography, but smaller.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slinkachu creates, photographs and leaves small model scenes on the streets of London. They’re a bit melancholy and a bit funny too. His site and blog are definitely worth a look. [...]

Join the army, see the world.

New recruitment campaign video for the US Army.

Be a boxer, own a monkey and play the drums…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bruce Gilden on life, ambition and why he became a photographer. Interview in VICE magazine here.

Nice idea. Read the small print.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Photograph is a site that invites people to post pictures that incorporate photographs from their past taken in thelocations featured in the original picture. It’s worth a look.

Also worth reading the site’s small-print before you submit [...]

Wilfred Thesiger. BBC Audio slideshow

 

This BBC audio slideshow from 2010. Always good to see Thesiger’s photos and great to hear to hear the man speak too.

Produced by Paul Kerley

Small camera, big crew.

Shot in life-size with Nokia N8 camera-phones. And the ‘making-of’ is worth a look too.

Somalia – reinforcing failure, starving success?

Here’s a good article by ex-British diplomat Carne Ross on the subject of governance, famine and the 11 year failure of the international community’s policy on Somalia.

Without stable governance Somalia is unlikely ever to be free from periodic famine. Is it time for the international community to accept the reality on the ground and [...]

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Time-lapse film of beautiful arctic Norway…

Cartoon reporting?

Listening to the terrible news unfold on Friday evening about the bombing and shootings in Norway, it was pretty clear that there was no reliable information about who was responsible or what their motivation for the crimes might have been. But that didn’t stop the radio news bulletins that I listened to (both BBC and [...]