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Some are, some aren’t. Either way, it’s about that time..

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Breath taking image manipulation

Lots of ‘controversy’ recently over the ‘manipulation’ of images and whether they bear any resemblance to reality. One commentator noting that if you want to manipulate your images “beyond what was in front of you then become a painter.”

I actually do work like that.

Here’s one I took a year or two ago for [...]

“An invisible line held by the hand of a ghost”

There were several mentions of dementia in the news yesterday, eerily coincidental, as I was in the middle of writing something about the disease.

First was a theatre production ‘Inside Out of Mind’, which sounds intriguing, described as:

“Darkly comic and offering glimpses of a mysterious world, this insightful play by Tanya Myers enters into [...]

Just a poem and a song for a wet sunday

This afternoon I’ve been making a music CD for someone I love. Hurding up some of the best music I’ve heard in the last few months (there is so much of it) I came back to the songs of Luke Sital Singh. A young man with a tremendous voice and turn of phrase. There’s a [...]

Beyond Terminal Velocity

In the last piece I posted here I argued that the technical evolution of photography has always been leading towards some form of ‘instant’ photograph. By this I meant a photographic technology which makes the elapsing time between photographer desiring an image, and it being shared with that photographer’s audience, effectively imperceptible. I wondered if [...]

#FF Funky Friday

Phew. End of a mad week. It’s always a mad week. Kick back for a couple of minutes and consider:

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Platon is one of the best raconteurs in photography

Brilliant.

Photographer Platon Reveals Power Through Portrait from WIRED on FORA.tv

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Witness

I’ve posted a few pieces on duckrabbit about Alzheimer’s that have proved popular with readers. It was suggested by several commentators that I submit a recent one to the Guardian for publication. I went to Google and up came “Guardian Witness: Our new home for content you’ve created” and their message “Your chance to have [...]

Note to self: keep your eye on the clock sucker.

I enjoy a good read. I particularly enjoy a good read about photography, whether non-fiction or fiction, but particularly work that is written by writers who ‘know’ photography, whose intimacy with the ‘thoughts of being a photographer’ are perhaps a result of their own experience of actually ‘writing with light’.

Writer and photographer John Edwin [...]

Still ONE chance left to own a copy of Jim Mortram’s Electric book (that sold out in 24 hours)

It’s rare for a photo book to create a big buzz; especially one that hasn’t been released, nor any preview copies issued. But Jim Mortram’s Electric book (his first) sold out in 24 hours.

I’m not surprised. Mortram is a breath of fresh air.

I was disappointed when Jim’s book sold out. You could argue [...]