I take pretty pictures. I’m sorry this isn’t a longer entry, but I’ve had a busy Saturday already, I have a cold, and I urgently want to take to my bed in order to prevent said cold from wrecking me, because I have stuff to do tomorrow, and I’ve got to be in work [...]
Entries Tagged as 'photography'
30 Days – Day #9: A Photo That I Took
December 9th, 2009 No Comments
Yes, I know the first two were also photos that I took. This one, you can just think of as “A photo you’d like to post”. This one I’m not quite as happy with as I am the previous two – the picture is off enough in very small ways that it bugs [...]
Tags: photo · photography
30 Days – Day #8: A Photo That Makes Me Sad
December 8th, 2009 No Comments
I did consider using some news photography here – a famous photo of some atrocity or other, something like that – and talking about how angry it makes me, and generally using to day to raise awareness of something, but to be quite honest with you, I’m just not in the mood to get that [...]
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30 Days – Day #7: A Photo That Makes Me Happy
December 7th, 2009 No Comments
One of two of my own photos I have hanging in my office. I love this bit of sculpture, and when I bought my first DSLR, I knew this was a photo I wanted to take. So I went and took it. It’s not a flawless composition, but it reflects a lot [...]
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Truth And Power
April 21st, 2009 No Comments
Del asks what I think about the current expansions of police powers to curb photography/journalism. And because Del is clever, she asked that I try and be balanced about it.
As is probably eyeball-searingly obvious, I am against it with the kind of incandescent rage I normally reserve for bigots, morons and people who attempt [...]
Tags: civil liberties · photography · police
Public Pictures
March 22nd, 2009 No Comments
So, as most of you probably know, I’m a bit of a photography nerd. There are few things in life that make me happier than wandering about London with a camera in hand, and most of those things that do are not things I can do in public without getting arrested.
So I get a [...]
Tags: photography · rights
Museum Copyright
March 10th, 2007 No Comments
I was reading an article by BoingBoing pundit, SF author and copywonk Cory Doctorow in Make magazine the other day (I’m afraid that there’s only tiny snippet of the article available for free on-line.)
He’d visited the Greenwich Maritime Museum, full of hundred-year-old sextants, and even older devices that people used to find their way [...]
Tags: copyright · museums · photography
