Archive for April, 2010

Do You Believe? Can You Compete?

Self-confidence, it’s a funny thing. Take Morrissey for instance. In The Smiths ‘How Soon Is Now’ he sang “I am the son, and the heir, of a shyness that is criminally vulgar”. Hardly the most forceful and positive image to generate and yet could The Smiths and Morrissey in particular have achieved their level of [...]

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Stories – love, life, and the meaning of the universe

Stories are something we hear a lot about in photography. Every picture tells a story .. every picture should tell a story.  As mantras or cliches go, talking about telling a story through a picture is something we repeat so often that it’s become almost meaningless. We know it, we say it, but do we [...]

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

Composition – Line & Space

The weather, a typically British thing to talk about and never more so than when it ‘s cold grey and wet. Very wet! For some reason there’s nothing we like more over here than competing, even with the weather itself, to see who can be the most miserable “Good morning! How’s the weather with you?” [...]

Monday, April 5th, 2010

New Dawn Fades

So here we are, April 3rd. The revolution is soon to be upon us, and depending who you listen to, far more likely to bring an end to the world than even anything happening over at CERN! I’m speaking of course about the dawning of The Age of The iPad”. Apple as usual are being [...]

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010