“To Kill the Indian in the Child”: 100 Years of Genocide in North America »
A friend of mine has entered Microsoft and Lenovo’s competition ‘Name Your Dream Assignment’ and needs your votes…. have a read, and click the link if you are up for supporting his project idea.
His assignment is as follows:
“To Kill the Indian in the Child”
100 Years of Genocide in North America
“To document Native North American survivors [...]
Plane ride, Palm Springs plans & more »
Some more images from my Feb US trip… (see further below for news on my upcoming presentation at Palm Springs Photo Festival on 2nd April as well as a link to a competition for young photographers.)
Fuel stop!
Big thanks to Daniel Buchmaller who I met on my Seattle photowalk in February, who invited me one my [...]
Focus On Imaging 09 »
Images and description of my talks for MS at Focus on Imaging, at the Birmingham NEC, 22nd – 25th Feb 09…
Above images: the MS booth. At this event three of my images (mounted on hardboard, 1m x 70cm) were on display on the Microsoft booth which was great. I managed to take two of them [...]
Copycats and underdogs: the behaviour of online communities »
The title of this blog post is rather academic, but I got so complacent after thinking of the cat and dog bit that I couldn’t think of anything more exciting for the bit after the colon.
This is a long one, but this is my blog, so I won’t apologise or demean it by calling [...]
Seattle photowalk »
On Friday 6th February (which happens to be my sister’s birthday) was the last of the photowalks – in Seattle, at an early start of 8am. It was wet weather, but this turned out to be the best one in my opinion. There was a great turnout (thanks to Paula posting on the Seattle meetup [...]
Los Angeles photowalks »
Now, images from the two photowalks in LA: first at Union Station, and then on Santa Monica pier. I’m now racing through these pics to get up to date!
Pictures from the first meetup at Union Station:
Above: my demo of the ‘cloning’ technique…
Above: Cresta posing by a British bus parked over the street from Union [...]
San Francisco photowalks, day 2 »
Catching up on posting pics from my US trip!
Here are pictures from the second day of San Francisco photowalks on 3rd February 2009, first at the US memorial:
And later at Panhandle to the Conservatory of flowers:
Above: taken by Ziv Gillat
Above: taken by Ziv Gillat
More to come….including pics from LA where I met TWO Flickr pals….
Also [...]
San Francisco photowalks, day 1 »
Pictures from the first day of photowalks: first, in the University of California Botanical Garden in Berkeley:
And in the evening outside the Ferry Building in SF, for which we had a great turnout along with Thomas Hawk:
Demonstrating cloning, or ‘multiplicity’ by the spider sculpture, processed polaroid-style:
And I also cloned a volunteer…
More photowalk pics to [...]
Pravda shoot in Seattle »
I’m still in the US, with some days off to wade through the tons of images I’ve garnered from recent events, and will present them here in some cogent and coherent order…
I will start with the first event, which was the community meetup with Microsoft at Pravda Studios, Seattle.
The evening started with rehearsals and preparations. [...]
Update! »
Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation and shoot with Microsoft at Pravda Studios in Seattle, and also thanks to the model Alex, and Isadoras who provided two exquisite vintage dresses for the evening. Thanks also to Ziv Gillat (of Eye-Fi) for shooting images of the event that went straight online from his camera…
I produced [...]