I’ve double-checked the calendar just to be sure and yes, it is indeed true; it’s summer! We had the summer solstice a few days ago and midsummer’s day is next week. For those of you outside the UK you’re…
Inspiration
With the weather promising a little sunshine after about 3 years of rain over the last fortnight, I am mainly being inspired by rainbows – or more specifically cool film photos of rainbow-coloured things… ARCOIRIS (RAINBOW) by SamyColor slips…
These are getting later and later, aren’t they! I’ve got some corkers for you though, so hopefully you’ll think they’re worth the wait. Firstly, my favourite wedding/engagement photography blog ever is ‘Twin Lens Life’ by The Brothers Wright – they have…
The rain. I need to stop seeing it as an obstacle and view it as an opportunity – these brilliant photographers over on flickr have done just that… 1. Untitled, 2. Reflections, 3. ., 4. Untitled, 5. wind advisory,…
Wow. I love what Trey Ratcliff has to say in this video. It was in my stack of videos to watch for ages, but to be honest the thumbnail image didn’t really appeal so I kept skipping past it!…
If my maths is correct (there’s a very good chance it isn’t) we are now half-way through 100 Days of Winter! Half-way! In 50 days time we will have reached the end of February and be relishing the prospect of…
As a woman and an artist, Eve Arnold was an inspiration. There’s a nice collection of her work available on the Guardian website, including images of Marilyn Monroe which are her most well-known. The collection misses out my favourite photo of…
Do you love The Manic Street Preachers? I do! I lived by their 1996 album ‘Everything Must Go’ and my number one karaoke song for belting out at any given opportunity has to be ‘A Design For Life‘. Well, I now have a…
Nowadays, if a school teacher insisted on taking lots of unofficial photographs of all the kids at school he would (at best) be looked on with some suspicion. This hasn’t always been the case though – thank goodness –…
So lazy in fact that these photos aren’t even by me, they are by some super-talented film photographers over on flickr – do check out their links below because they are awesome! I chose these images because they feel very…