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Apr 18, 2012
1 min

Silent World by Lucie & Simon

This is as spooky and possibly unsettling as it is awesome. Street photography as you’ve never seen it before. Two Paris-based photographers, Lucie and Simon, produced a series of images from four major cities – Paris, New York, Rome and Beijing – but without the usual crowds, without any cars and, ultimately, without any life. Some images do feature people, but usually just one lonely person, two or three in a handful of cases, which only adds to the overall sense of gloom

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Apr 2, 2012
1 min

A photographer’s journey – Paul Clarke

As promised a few weeks ago, here is another inspirational story on how to become a successful photographer. If you are fascinated by photography and would like to turn pro – but don’t know how – Paul Clarke has a few words of encouragement for you. He features in today’s episode of my “A photographers journey” mini-series. Paul told me his story and explained how he became a successful and respected event (but not only) photographer. He’d worked on somebody else’s images b

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iPhone photography Awards 2012

Mar 27, 2012
1 min

iPhone photography Awards 2012

It’s the fifth edition of the contest and the deadline for submissions is fast approaching. So if you fancy submitting yours (fees apply), see the submissions page for categories, terms and conditions and other details. The page fails to mention the prizes – a 16GB WiFi iPad (which generation?) and inclusion in the IPPA Interactive Annual (apparently available on iTunes, although I couldn’t find it; maybe they didn’t publish them in previous years, who knows?). There’s no inf

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King’s Cross – London’s newest photo destination

Mar 25, 2012
1 min

King’s Cross – London’s newest photo destination

The new roof at King’s Cross Or, to be more precise, the newly-opened concourse at King’s Cross station with its gorgeous roof reminiscent of the Great Court roof at the British Museum. The new roof is a fantastic structure to photograph. It’s been built in a way which draws light in through a relatively small (compared to the size of the structure) section closest to the main station building, but big enough to provide most of the concourse with enough natural light during t

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All About Eve – the brilliant Eve Arnold exhibition

Mar 20, 2012
2 min

All About Eve – the brilliant Eve Arnold exhibition

And now it’s hosting a brilliant – but with many sad undertones – exhibition of Eve Arnold’s photography, All About Eve. Which you can’t afford to miss as that would be a real shame. So why is it sad? First of all, as you can see on the pictures, there were very few people there when I went. Of course it doesn’t mean anything as there might be other days when the room is packed, but it still struck me that such a brilliant exhibition received so little attention (although it

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Dec 19, 2011
1 min

Google+ gets a new lightbox

Yeah, eat this, Facebook. Oh, and Flickr: keep looking on, with your hands in your pockets. This does help, sure. New features include: – full-screen photos – improved layout – better tagging – new look and feel If you’re not on Google+, you’re probably laughing now, after all “nobody uses Google+”. Allegedly. But if you are a G+ user – and you share a lot of images – you’ll probably think twice before renewing that Flickr Pro account… More on the recent Google+ changes h

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My changing habits

Aug 31, 2011
2 min

My changing habits

I’ve been travelling a bit recently, so to make up for the long silence on this blog, I’ll be writing a few travel-related posts on here over the next couple of weeks. Things I’ve learned, noticed and photographed. Maybe a video or two too, but don’t hold your breath. One thing that has become very obvious is my relationship with all the social platforms I’ve been using to post my images. Until recently, it’s been just Flickr and this blog. And Twitter, but it mostly helped m

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Google+ for photographers

Jul 5, 2011
3 min

Google+ for photographers

Should you move your portfolio? Will Google+ kill Flickr? Is it better than Facebook? Well, who knows. All we know for now is that Google+ has been open to a chosen few for just over a week and generated a lot of excitement – or frustration, if you haven’t been able to join it yet. Let’s agree about one thing. The service is impressive, but predicting the death of Flickr and Facebook at this stage might be a bit premature. This is the very beginning – Google+ has barely left

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500px.com – where quality meets simplicity

May 9, 2011
5 min

500px.com – where quality meets simplicity

Like 500px.com, a Canadian photo-sharing website which has been around for a long time (hence the name – when they started 500-pixel images were considered optimal for web display), but in its latest incarnation – relaunched two years ago – it began attracting photographers with passion, people who put a lot into their photography and people who produce and admire big, bold and good quality images. The site was born thanks to Ian Sobolev and Oleg Gutsol, who seem to have crea

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London Street Photography at the Museum of London

Mar 2, 2011
2 min

London Street Photography at the Museum of London

And indeed, the first images you see when you visit the superb “London Street Photography” exhibition, which has just opened at the Museum of London in the City, are quite blurry thanks to long exposure times. It’s fascinating to see that, in terms of the subject matter, what London-based photographers and visitors to the city upload to Flickr or capture via Instagram in 2011 doesn’t differ that much – broadly speaking, of course – from what the forefathers of street photogra

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Why I swapped The Best Camera for Instagram

Feb 23, 2011
3 min

Why I swapped The Best Camera for Instagram

I’ve been resisting it for months. Instagram, the iPhone app everyone seems to be using at the moment. (I was tempted to say “Instagram, the latest fad” here, but I’m sure it would come back to bite my ass.) I thought I didn’t need yet another photo app on my phone, yet another way of sharing my images. But a rapidly growing number of friends and online contacts have been using the app over the past few weeks and I was simply curious. I knew it combined the ease of use with a

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Saved by the phone. Again.

Oct 21, 2010
2 min

Saved by the phone. Again.

Then one day you walk to work early in the morning, bleary-eyed and in need of a really strong coffee, when you spot a fantastic photo opportunity. That heavy bag would come in handy but, sadly, it’s having a day off… If you need yet another proof that a decent camera phone (I’m ignoring its obvious technical limitations here) is as good as many entry-level DSLRs, here it is. I took the above picture with my iPhone on the way to work yesterday. The only thing that bugged me w

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The joy of photographing… well, anything and everything

Sep 16, 2010
2 min

The joy of photographing… well, anything and everything

For reasons I don’t necessarily want to discuss here and now, I haven’t had a chance to play with my DSLR as much as I would like to over the past several months. Yes, there has been the occasional iPhone shot, but there haven’t been many opportunities to play with different lenses, long exposures and all the other functionality we take for granted when we enjoy our DSLRs. Yes, taking pictures is fun regardless of what tool you use, but I sometimes missed the ability to take

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How to protect images online

Jun 29, 2010
4 min

How to protect images online

I remember doing an image search a few months ago and seeing a copy of a picture I own. The image was posted on a site I didn’t recognise, so my first reaction was anger – somebody stole my picture! On closer inspection it turned out it was my friend who posted it on his Posterous blog with an appropriate credit. So I was lucky. But how many of you have had your images stolen? I take thousands of pictures, but I don’t publish thousands online. Neither am I a professional pho

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Bland, tired, clichéd. Welcome to the world of stock photography

Jun 21, 2010
3 min

Bland, tired, clichéd. Welcome to the world of stock photography

Everyone is complaining that it’s more and more difficult to make money on photography and that the stock photography market has become too competitive. Stock libraries spring up every five minutes and they all overflow with images. Yes, that might be true. But when you really need a good picture, micro stock libraries disappoint. In my job I often need to browse for images to illustrate various stories. The subjects vary wildly, but in many cases the requirements are not to

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The best photo apps for the iPhone

May 10, 2010
5 min

The best photo apps for the iPhone

The best according to me, I hasten to add, as this is a very subjective list of my favourite iPhone photo applications. I know there are hundreds of apps for photographers, but I’ve been using these for months and can pretty much say these are the best in terms of creativity, fun and functionality. The order is random, although as you will see, I use some of these more often than others. One of those applications which capture the imagination of both photographers and casual

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Dubai in 45 gigapixels disappoints

May 8, 2010
1 min

Dubai in 45 gigapixels disappoints

First we had Dresden in 26 gigapixels, followed by this equally huge panoramic image of Paris. Now the gigapixels have nearly doubled to 45 and the next destination to get its gigapixel treatment is Dubai. Dubai sounds like a great idea, however from where the picture was taken it looks like the most depressing place on earth. Half-built skyscrapers dominate the picture (are thy still being built? or have they been abandoned when Dubai’s economic problems started?) – and the

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Keep calm and carry on (shooting)…

Mar 9, 2010
1 min

Keep calm and carry on (shooting)…

As for every “Photography under threat” headline, there’s an amazing story on how photography changes or at least influences lives . So, don’t worry, photography is not under threat. It will be, when you stop shooting. #phnat #photography

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London photography from the upper deck

Jan 3, 2010
3 min

London photography from the upper deck

Every now and then I’ll be chatting to photographers who inspire me or do something unusual with their cameras. This is my first quick chat with a London-based photographer, Przemek Wajerowicz, who some time ago set out to create a project called From the Upper Deck. Here he talks to me about in more detail about his project and the inspiration behind it: 253 to Euston © From The upper Deck The project started soon after I arrived in London in 2005. I’m a street photography

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The fox on the tube – and what photographers can learn

Dec 8, 2009
2 min

The fox on the tube – and what photographers can learn

Within hours of posting the image on Twitter, it went viral and captured the imagination of thousands of people worldwide. I read Kate’s updates on Twitter as she got more and more excited about the prospect of breaking yet another unexpected record number of views. However, nothing has prepared Kate for the subsequent media reaction to this picture. Everyone, from the BBC to the Daily Mirror, from Metro to the Daily Telegraph picked up the story and ran the picture. Many blo

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