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Video digiscoping experiment
It just occurred to me a couple of days ago that since my digital camera has a video mode, I could try digiscoping some video. I thought it came out fairly well, considering. I just hold the camera up...
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Digiscoping woodpeckers
I was having a go at photographing the juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker that comes to the birdfeeder, but it’s kind of tricky. My success rate when digiscoping is never that high at the best of times;...
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Digiscoping parakeets
The parakeets only reached this part of London about three years ago, but now we have flocks of them every day; there are often seven or eight on the feeders and more in the surrounding trees. They’re...
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Fun with lenses
A couple of weeks ago when it was, briefly, sunny, I was messing around in the garden taking pictures through the magnifying glass that came with the Oxford Ludicrously Small Print Dictionary. Apart...
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New camera, same old clichés
I’ve got a new camera, so I thought I’d celebrate it in the approved internet fashion: catblogging. You can click through to Flickr to see larger versions. This is Boris: And this is Posy, who is a...
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I’m itching to do yet another site redesign—I have a pretty good idea of what I want and a working test version of it, allowing for a bit of tweaking—but I think it makes sense to wait until the...
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The release of WordPress 2.3 is my cue to release my photoblog onto the world. Since this blog, which is comparatively simple in terms of layout, still isn’t working properly in Internet Explorer, I...
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The sixth picture is up at my new photoblog Clouded Drab. I’m just sayin’. Some related posts: In non-Internet Explorer related news… Happy Birthday Clouded Drab Flickr interesting photo meme WordPress...
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition
I went to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum yesterday, which is always worth a look. Apart from the fact that there are loads of great photos, there’s the...
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Redwings
There’s a berry-covered tree over the road from the house—some kind of cotoneaster?—and at the moment there’s an almost constant stream of redwings going back and forth from it. The redwing is a...
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‘Alexander Rodchenko’&‘Laughing in a Foreign Language’ at the Hayward
I went to the Hayward today to see an exhibition of the photography of Alexander Rodchenko; the price of the ticket included entry to a show called ‘Laughing in a Foreign Language’, a exhibition which...
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Boy jumping
A crop out of the centre of a photo I shot on the South Bank the other day when I went to see the Rodchenko at the Hayward. See also Phillippe Halsman and Jacques-Henri Lartigue. And of course Flickr....
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Prokudin-Gorskii photographs
I’ve actually linked to these before, but a post over at i heart photograph reminded me about them and I was browsing through them again. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was a Russian photographer...
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The Muybridge Problem
I was wondering this morning why it is that narrative paintings always seem to fall so flat for a modern viewer (i.e. me). Not just those cheesy C19th paintings with titles like A Soldier Returns; even...
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Higher, faster, yes. More meritocratic? No | Matthew Syed – Times Online 'Even some of our more intelligent commentators have convinced themselves that Sir Steve Redgrave is the greatest living...
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Happy Birthday Clouded Drab
Clouded Drab — my photoblog — is one year old today. And despite occasional fallow periods, I have posted 92 photos in that year, which seems a respectable number. This puffin is not one of those...
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Magnum Blog / Surfing the archive: Competition Entries – the photo blog of Magnum Photos Entries for a competition where people had to pick photos from the Magnum archives and pair them with a famous...
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Darwin and wildlife photography at the NHM
I went along to the Natural History Museum to visit a couple of exhibitions: Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Darwin. The WPotY exhibition is an annual treat; some years are better than others,...
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Leah Evans Textiles Quilts with map designs. via MAKE. (del.icio.us tags: quilts maps ) Penguin Photography » Antarctica Among the Penguins 'Photographing penguins is at once ridiculously easy and...
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Solargraphs show half a year of sun – New Scientist 'These pinhole photographs, exposed for six months, capture the journey of the sun from the winter to the summer solstice.' Cool and completely...
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‘Rodchenko & Popova’ at Tate Modern
I went to ‘Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism’ at Tate Modern today. I’ve seen quite a few exhibitions in the past few years that feature Aleksandr Rodchenko*, so I wasn’t really sure how...
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Freeze Frame » Freeze Frame 'Historic Polar Images, 1845-1982 from the Scott Polar Research Institute' (del.icio.us tags: polar photography Arctic Antarctic ) Some related posts: Links Links Links...
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I finally got a new lens for my camera yesterday — I say finally because for various reasons I won’t bore you with, I’ve been waiting for one for months now — and I’m now not sure about it. It’s a...
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V1 GALLERY artist via Kottke, some fab composite photos of New York (del.icio.us tags: photography ) Some related posts: Links Links Links Links Links Links Links Wildlife Photographer of the Year...
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This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind – Photosketch – Gizmodo Cool toy: 'PhotoSketch is an internet-based program that can take the rough, labeled sketch on the left and automagically turn it into...
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‘Points of View’ at the British Library
I just visited the slightly uninspiringly titled ‘Points of View’ exhibition at the British Library, which is an exhibition of nineteenth century photography. I’ve been very impressed with the BL’s...
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year at the NHM
I made my annual trip to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum. Which was, as always, well worth a visit. Obviously I recommend you visit it in person, because...
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Lensmen: 1919 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive Love this picture: 'Washington, D.C., circa 1919. "Two photographers." On the left, A.W. "Artie" Leonard of National Photo. Harris & Ewing glass...
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at NHM
I made my annual trip to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum. I thought it was particularly good this year. Here’s a pleasing and particularly original...
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Twombly, Poussin, Emin and Hungarian Photographers
A bit of an exhibition round up. This is not, as you might think, four exhibitions, because at Dulwich Picture Gallery at the moment they have a combined Cy Twombly/Nicolas Poussin exhibition. Which...
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