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Blogs I like: Jules Vernacular

A collection of words and typography around a French city (with it’s own fair share of shop fronts :)

Check it: http://vernacular.free.fr

Hin Chua: After the Fall

I’m a big fan of photos that focus on the man made rather than pictures of people, these photos by Hin Chua have an eeriness about them that nods to some kind of post-apocalyptic world, well one that didn’t include a big explosion. Enjoy.

More works at www.hinius.net

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Matthew Albanese: Strange Worlds

Matthew Albanese makes amazing miniature landscapes through a variety of use of materials and photographic techniques.

I love the idea that you can have worlds all in one studio and the painstaking detail that’s gone into these.

Paprika Mars. Made out of 12 pounds paprika, cinnamon, nutmeg, chili powder and charcoal

Aurora Borealis. This one was made by photographing a beam of colored light against a black curtain to achieve the edge effect. The trees were composited from life ( so far the only real life element in any of these images) The stars are simply strobe light through holes in cork board

Check him out here

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Blogs I like: Snapshot London

Alex Pink takes rather good photos of things in London often the neglected bits that we generally overlook, old pubs or well composed street views and there are a smattering of shop fronts, which in my view is always a good thing. This is real London.

See more at:www.snapshotlondon.co.uk

Rant: “Oh you want credit for your photos?”

I’m a bit pissed off (those that know me won’t be suprised by this), I’ve just found my photos being used again without the right permissions.

Photographers are treated terribly mostly by big corporations who have enough legal know-how to know better. Who cares that you spent time and effort building up a collection of photos, they just seem to think it’s ok to raid it.

I fully sign up to reproduction of content, provided that the original owner’s rights are considered and their wishes for usage met. All my shop front photos are released under a Creative Commons licence (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike), which basically means anyone can:
Copy, distribute and transmit the work and adapt it as they like provided they credit me, do not use it for commercial gain and use the same licence on any work they produce using it.

An angry email from a shop owner (that I won’t go into here) brought my attention to the BBC’s ONE show using some of my photos to illustrate a story, something about Martine McCutcheon and bad hair cuts (it’s currently here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qcph8 but only for the next week).

Here is the image from the show:

This is clearly a missmash of my two photos below (plus another that I can’t work out right now)

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I’ve emailed a complaint, apparently they have a 10 day agreed response time. It’s not the first time this has happened to me (and many others) and I’m sure it won’t be the last. I’ll be sure to post the response.

See also Peter Zabulis’ story www.flickr.com/photos/petezab/4276745361

and Mike Laurie’s blog post http://madebymany.co.uk/creation-curation-and-social-contract-002800

and www.flickr.com/photos/emilywebber/4310404245

The list goes on….

Mike Hollingshead

Amazing photography from Mike Hollingshead, storm chaser: www.extremeinstability.com

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The White Balance Lens Cap

I’m a bit lazy when it comes to manual settings when taking photos, once upon a time I had a fully manual camera, no in-built light meter or anything; now I generally leave it to what my camera tells me. So something like the White Balance Lens Cap is perfect for getting someone like me to think a bit more about image control. It involves simply taking a photo with the lens cap to get your white balance settings, cool.

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I’m a Photographer not a Terrorist

There are a lot of stories flying around at the moment about photographers being mistreated under abuse of section 44 of the Terrorism Act, this is making a lot of people angry and if you (like myself and anyone with a mobile phone) take photos in public places this could affect you.

I’m a Photographer not a Terrorist is one of the organisations trying to put a stop to this by raising awareness, supporting photographers and coordinating the fight. They even have a bust card to help you know your rights should you be challenged while taking photos.

If you want to get more involved you can join the next gathering on Saturday in Trafalgar Square at noon.

Empty LA : Matt Logue

Manipulated photos of LA

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Blogs I like: From The Upper Deck

I love this blog from Przemek Wajerowicz. He takes photos from the top deck of buses capturing obscure moments which creates fascinating narratives. It’s a real slice of London street life, if you haven’t seen it, you should. Its here:www.ftud.net

Blogs I like: Booooooom

I have a number of blogs piled up in my Google Reader, so I thought I’d share some of my favourites, just in case you don’t know them, first up Booooooom …

This is a great inspiration blog from Canadian Jeff Hamad, showcasing art, design, film, music, photography and stuff, as well as running their own projects often in collaboration.

See it all here:www.booooooom.com

Photo by Katheryn Love.

Christmas Tree: Beautiful in the living room, Glorious in the street

Every January I think to myself “I really want to take a collection of photos of dumped Christmas trees” and I never have, but Gabriel Mauron did and it makes a lovely collection….maybe next year

See more:here

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