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]

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.

Newly Served

I moved my domain last Friday (16 Dec 05) so if you’ve emailed me in the last few days and haven’t had a reply please resend.

Jeff Wall

If like me, you’ve only seen one or two Jeff Wall pictures in group shows before, then the current show at the Tate Modern is well worth seeing. I’m still wondering how much of my admiration for the pictures is to do with being seduced by the format (huge lightboxes) but they certainly have more interest than say Gregory Crewdson’s huge (non-lightbox) pictures. Perhaps somebody will fund me to produce some of my own pictures as lightboxes and then I’ll have a better understanding (roughly sliced).

Three Bollards

I went to see William Eggleston in the Real World at the Barbican but the DVD skipped, eventually stalled and the show was abandoned. Michael Almereyda said it was “nobody’s fault”. The discussion between him, Martin Parr and Val Williams was pretty lame too. There should have been a riot or at least the offer of a refund. (Update: the Barbican organised a free re-screening)

Tree and Bollard

2005 and I was considering trying to post once a week but given that I’ve already fallen at the first hurdle I’ll try to think of a more exciting regime.

November, TCR

I’ve put together six pictures into a new gallery called November Landscapes (removed May ‘05).

John Peel

A big loss: John Peel died.

Crumpled

I’ve made a new gallery of recent pictures [link removed].

It Must Have Been the Sun

Sorry about all the flowers, seascapes and nudity - normal madness is resumed with a return to the city.

Twins

I’ve added a new gallery to my main photography page, Twins, which was made with Jawed Ashraf.

I’ve had some problems with e-mail over the last week or so. If you’ve sent me something and I haven’t replied, please resend or use the contact form to get in touch.

Remake Remodel

I’m thinking of switching to Movable Type and redesigning the whole site so it may go a bit quiet. I’m going to take part in this QTVR pano event even though, or because, I haven’t shot a 360 for a long time.