Google American Pie Song and you received 2,070,000 results, that’s a lot of pages focussing on this classic ballad. Type in the words Afghan Girl Photograph and you get 14,600,000 – conciderably more! I’m sure that mathematicians will be able to establish whether these results are statistically relevant and what interpretations can be drawn. They [...]
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American π
Posted in Strategy, Thoughts, tagged Digital Photography, Inspiration, Photography, Thoughts on August 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
iPhone Photo A Day – 40 not out
Posted in Photo A Day, Strategy, tagged Digital Photography, iPhone, iPhoneography, Photo A Day, Photography, Technique on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Quite by chance I came across a blog by Chad Wright who has recently started a Photo A Day Project (PAD) for images taken on his iPhone. As an iPhone owner I was intrigued by the idea especially as I have also recently completed my own two year PAD project. When I originally started on [...]
World Wide Photo Walk
Posted in Strategy, tagged Digital Photography, Fun, Inspiration, Photography, Technique on July 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I, along with thousands of others, took part in Scott Kelby’s World Wide Photo Walk. Nearly 30 thousand photographers in 900 cities around the world walked around their local neighbourhood taking photographs, enjoying the company of other like minded individuals sharing their thoughts and idea. I joined up with a group in Bristol one of [...]
Behind The Glass
Posted in Strategy, tagged Digital Photography, Inspiration, Photography, Technique on July 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Competition I was reading some comment threads on photo competition site. The threads were related to an image which had won one of the weekly competitions. A question was asked as to how the Photographer went about setting up his beach based sunrise landscape shot and the gist of the thread went as follows. To [...]
Instant Printing
Posted in Strategy, tagged Inspiration, Photography, printing, Technique on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have recently been to a school leavers Ball. There were about 150 parents there and a photographer capturing images of the proud folks with their offspring and printing them off instantly. I had a chat with the photographer near the end, and asked him how many shots had he sold – 160 was the [...]
Digital Opportunities
Posted in Strategy, tagged Inspiration, Photography, Technique on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the Beginning I remember my first digital camera, it was bundled together with a laptop that we purchased, and connected straight into its PCMCIA slot. Both arrived on the 24th December so the camera went into overdrive on Christmas day, all the family joined in taking shots of each other and loading them onto the [...]
Change the Scenery
Posted in Strategy, tagged Digital Photography, Fun, Inspiration, Photography, Technique on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
David Hockney I recently watched a documentary about artist David Hockney, which covered him returning home to England after spending the majority of his life in California. In his late 60’s he spent 12 months moving out from the studio to paint the hedgerows and country lanes of Yorkshire and all this resulted in the [...]
The Next Trend
Posted in Strategy, tagged Inspiration, Photography, Technique on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I live in the UK and was recently reading an article which was trying to predict the next trend in Social Photography. It came up with a couple of suggestions which they felt may hit our shores in the next few years. High School Graduation and Trash That Dress. Well I have news for that [...]