Another Workshop

I’ll be running the next street photography workshop on July 25 / August 8 – see the Photofusion site for more information. This shot was taken on the previous running when I was demonstrating how to be unprofessional by gate crashing someone else’s shoot. Here’s the gallery of participants’ pictures. [Pic]

Wait in the Magazine

This is one of two of my Wait pictures which were published in the latest LIP magazine. You can find it on sale at the Photographers’ Gallery and a handful of other places in London (see list on first link). It’s hard to be too excited about this because aside from the fact that the two chosen pictures don’t make a lot of sense on their own, they edited my text, without any discussion, including adding a line of observation at the end (“I do see them as still figures surrounded by bustling street life”) which I didn’t even make. Sigh. You can see more pictures from this series here along with my original text (which doubtless would benefit from editing but by someone else).

The recent Street Photography Workshop generated this gallery of pictures from the participants. [Pic]

Whenever You Can

According to this survey digital cameras are the most confusing gadget and 46% of us don’t read the manuals. I spend a fair amount of time teaching people how to use their DSLRs so don’t find any of this surprising. Compared to the simple, manual only, film cameras that I learnt on, the modern digital camera is incredibly complex with a horrible interface and for the novice, an indecipherable manual. [Pic]

Turbulence

I’ve recently rebuilt this site and a lot of the older blog posts are currently a bit broken. Apologies also if you got a dump of recent posts in your RSS reader today. Let me know if you spot any other oddities. Things should be straight again by next week.

Street Photo Workshop 2008 – no. 2

The first running of this year’s Street Photography Workshop is underway but there are still places available on the next. [Update: We had to change the original August dates and it is now due to run on the 13th & 27th of September]. Details should be on the Photofusion website soon.

Odd One

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Identity Card

Some People

How We Are

The How We Are show at the Tate has a flickr tie-in where users are supposed to have their pictures displaying as part of the exhibit (over 5,000 pictures in the group currently). Unfortunately all four screens were showing either crashed Windows or a spinning slideshow wheel with no pictures (how hard can it be?). The rest of the show is well worth seeing (room guide) although I have to admit that I found the best part of the last room was the ability to pull up my own flickr account and run it on a computer that was working.

In other news, my daughter Max is just finishing her degree and has put her final piece, a Knitimation Video, online. Go watch it.

Street Photography Workshop

I’m leading a Street Photography Workshop at Photofusion which runs on two Saturdays in July (7th and 21st) with time in-between for practice. Among the plus points is that it’s a small group of participants. There are more details on the Photofusion site and it’s half-full already so if you’re interested but have questions, feel free to contact me. Update: another has been scheduled. Update 2: I’m planning to run it again in the summer.

See Also

London Art Galleries

I originally started my page of links to London art gallery web sites because a lot of them were very hard to find via google. However, it has since become very popular so I’ve tidied it up a bit and added a featured gallery spot at the top with the vague plan of making vast amounts of advertising revenue [Update: I've given the page its own domain]. I never set out to be a listings guy but hey, if it means I can take more pictures we can’t complain. This picture was taken after a wander around the insides of Battersea Power Station. More art.