Those of you who are old enough will remember this. Those of you who aren’t, can imagine it. You see, ‘useable’ digital photography has only been around for about 10% of the history of photography, and that’s pushing the point a little strenuously if you really get down to the nitty gritty. But we now have […]
Before I come to the point, that being ‘the photograph,’ I thought a little perspective wouldn’t go amiss, and it’s this … Is what we are looking at what is actually there? You see, our day to day lives are only lived within a sense of reality. A construct, if you like. This applies to all […]
In the old days when test reports of new cameras were released by the independent testers, they were always full of interesting things. Build quality, ergonomics, viewing screens, accessories and all sorts of other stuff. But right there at the top of the list, and the bit that invariably everyone wanted to read about first, was […]
We, as human beings, but not necessarily all of us, take for granted that which surrounds us. I say, “not necessarily all of us,” because there are some of us who do occasionally consider stuff. We think about it. We muse. And when I refer to our surroundings, I don’t just mean mountains majestically looking down […]
Have you ever considered that music and film have something in common? When I say “film”, I’m not talking about the stuff you put into a camera, or cling film, or what happens when you spill some Castrol GTX on a puddle. No, I am talking about ‘moving pictures’ … the flicks … the movies … […]
Well then, what’s the easiest way of getting your photographs made? There are more photographers plying their trade out there than there are chicken nuggets. So, call one of them. There’s a drawback though. You see, there are appalling chicken nuggets which have gone past their sell by date and give you food poisoning, and there […]
When one creates something, the important thing is frequently not what you put in to it, but more often what you leave out. Well … I really only make that statement to get you thinking … because of course you have to consider what gets ‘put in’ otherwise all you’d have left is bunch of what […]
The expression is to “take a picture” … … could this be a reference to the theft of Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ from a gallery in Oslo in February of 1994? Probably not, and of course this is a bit tongue in cheek, but you see what I’m driving at. The manufacture of a photographic image, […]
Here’s a good one. Things are accepted. They are accepted because they are in common usage or they are observed as ‘the way it is’ … … but that doesn’t make them right. The difference between accepted and acceptable. Let me give you an example. The majority of drivers on the M25 drive in a certain […]
When is a piece of creative work the work of a man and when does it just become faceless. Just something that’s ‘out there’, like lots of other stuff that’s ‘out there’? The point I am making is that the desires of the creator should be greater than the technology available to achieve them. There comes […]
