My mother was one of 15 children, born into a Lanarkshire mining family near Glasgow. Her dad was a miner, and several of her brothers and nephews went into the pit to toil beside......
Image © John MacPherson The 'B's' are Blowhard Blokey Birding Bumwhuffles. (I made that last word up but......
I have a few 'clootie' (cloth) wells near me. These are 'healing wells' and the tradition is to dip a piece of rag in the water and wipe the afflicted part of your body......
Charlie Beckett used a metaphor in a recent (excellent) article that has become more commonly used of late "drowning in a sea of stories about our world". (Sometimes also seen......
I've had a few community involvement jobs recently working with novice and aspirant photographers, helping them improve their photographic ability. Most of them expect techy stuff, and when I say "Nah, it's not about......
"I've got a green lollipop!" said my son William (4) with great excitement! He was waving it in front of a lone fellow who was sat on a bench on the edge of the......
"Daddy, daddy, daddy, look look look! Look! There! Look daddy! It's my name. W for William, there, on the road! LOOK!" said William (aged 3 yrs and 10 months) with great excitement as we......
I met him in the woodlands, years ago. I'd come upon him without him seeing me as he was distracted, bending over and sticking something into the ground. He was a giant of a......
I mentioned previously I might write a little on photographing people and 'inhibition' following a comment made to a recent post. This post is also, I guess, a wee bit about perception, and......
We've touched a few times recently on the importance of creative activity for young people. Well I think we could start the creative learning process much earlier if we designed really clever, entertaining and......
I was struck by a recent post by David, and his quote from Josh Metzeler about getting to the right place to take pictures: I’d like to say one very important thing about photojournalism (that......
I like duckrabbit. Because its all about storytelling, and art. But mainly because its about teaching those things too. Thats what's really important. Good art can affect people, but learning how to create art......
I featured the work of Mishka Henner and Liz Lock on duckrabbit a couple of days ago. I was drawn back to a series on their website this morning called Dedicated to the......
Miki at Resolve kindly pointed this out to Benjamin and I : A very honest piece by acclaimed snapper Ed Kashi, discussing how he tries to balance family life with work, the......