Well here in the South West we have had some embryonic signs of slowly improving weather. The daffodils are starting to poke their blooms out to test the temperature, that elusive big yellow orb thingy has been making a few more lengthy appearances in the sky and the days are feeling a little longer. The [...]
February 8, 2013
What do you get the man who has everything? Goodness knows why but it is a question my family seem to struggle with at Christmas time! In the run up to last year’s festivities I heared an interview with Michael Woodford on the radio. Michael is the man who peeled back the lid on the [...]
December 27, 2012
The end is nigh! 363 days ago I embarked on the onerous commitment of a photo a day 366 blog. Although I’d toyed with the idea of a regular photo blog before I’d never really settled on a theme to motivate me. In the end I decided motivation itself would be my theme. The aim [...]
December 18, 2012
Update; looks like they’ve been forced to have a rethink. If I were an instagram user I’d be keeping a close eye on this; so they don’t plan to ‘sell’, well a photographer doesn’t sell; they license the use of. The initial move makes their intentions pretty clear, the question is if they’ll find a [...]
December 5, 2012
Well Alamy’s recent price rise announcement certainly caused the proverbial turd to hit the aircon full on. The nasty aroma was still wafting around stock shooters forums whole days later. Hang on, I hear you thinking, what is he on about? Price rise? Alamy have put prices up?! Did I miss something? No, sadly not. [...]
October 26, 2012
Gawd I loath the build up to Christmas. I don’t mind the day itself, too much, but could happily bypass the giddy build up. You know as a stock photographer seeing the first buds of joyful decorative consumerism shooting in the shops and highstreets is doubly sickening as not only do you know you have [...]
July 13, 2012
Is this the end of RM as we know it? And do you feel fine? Read here for a 101 stock photo licensing primer Not so long ago licensing the use of an image involved negotiation based on the proposed use of the image, the perceived quality and rarity of the image and any exclusivity [...]
May 20, 2012
I spent today shooting motocross riders in the Action South West series. I’ve shot a fair few of these events now so despite varying conditions and courses I’m getting to the point where I’m really just repeating myself, shooting the same images over and over again. With event photography, and particularly a sport like this, [...]
February 6, 2012
This is not a Lightroom 4 review. I haven’t even downloaded the beta for a play. I’m very happy with LR3, it does everything I need at the moment. I can, however, tell you one great thing about LR4 without even looking at it; it’s halved the price of Lightroom 3! I’ve always been keen [...]
February 4, 2012
I’ve kicked off previous years on this blog with a bit of an introspective analysis of my year in stock photography. A lot of photographers do seem to enjoy a good perv over competitors/colleagues stats and these posts were quite popular. However this year I decided raking over my 2011 facts and figures would be [...]
March 20, 2013