The results of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition have just been announced and it looks like 2008 is the year of the snow leopard. Images of these incredibly rare animals, taken using camera traps, won the photographer, Steven Winter, the overall Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award, the Gerald Durrell Award for [...]
5.30pm tonight. The clocks went back at the weekend and on cue, in comes some beautiful weather. Some strange colour balance going on as well. The top middle image had a distinct colour cast to it, not like a typical, orangey lamp post. Never seen that before…
James Bond-age that is… I am a complete sucker for Bond movies and am happy to admit I am very excited by the release of Quantum of Solace on the 31st. Its going to be good!
I had a look at the new book by Greg Williams in Waterstones today. Greg has published several books about [...]
This site is definitely a work in progress. A new visitor might well ask, ‘Where’s the adventure? Underwater images? Travel shots?’ Well they are on the way and a complete redesign of this site is a priority - make it less of a blog and more a professional photographic site.
Good news however, it’s looking like [...]
Take a look at this gallery at xdrtb.org. The photographer, James Nachtwey, was awarded a TED prize in 2007 and used this to document the spread of extremely drug-resistant TB, particularly amongst HIV/AIDS patients. Pretty strong images which, in my opinion, sum up what photojournalism is all about.
Photographers take pictures of nouns - places, people [...]
I’ve been looking at ways of using both facebook and this blog to gather information and send out updates for a big project I have coming up, and ended up signing up for Twitter. After 5 minutes of tweaking, I can now send an sms to update my Twitter and Facebook status and if I [...]
The latest addition to my sister’s family…
