Pick A Number

Janet Hall was one of the founding members of LIP and she left some of her camera equipment to the organisation when she died recently. If you are interested in a 5×4 Sinar, lenses or a pair of studio flash heads, here is the link to the ebay auction (NB: now finished) which I am running on behalf of LIP. (link is to the camera, follow the link to my other auctions for more).

Time to Play

I’m sure there will be lots of photoblogs bulging with excitement about Adobe Lightroom but all I have to say is that I’m glad I wasn’t sucked into the Aperture hype - as much as I like Apple. Not wishing to get into arguments over which is better I can see these programs being quite appealing to a lot of photographers who don’t want to deal with the behemoth that is Photoshop, as well as those who need a better way to deal with editing, cataloguing, etc. This picture comes via my first, five minute play with Lightroom.

Not a Series

I went to see the Jeff Wall show again and noticed a couple of new oddities which could have been discussed for hours had I not been there with real people. However, afterwards one of the real people was kind enough to buy me a copy of the book below which, despite my having enough books at the moment, seemed relevant to my current thinking. Later in the pub, her generosity was heightened by the fact that she had her purse emptied by a pickpocket.

Singular Images: Essays on Remarkable Photographs
Edited by Sophie Howarth.