A growing
collection of occasional articles about photography and things photographic
An investigation into travel guidebook buying habits in the UK and the associated travel guide publishing market, drawing on market research and intelligence. The article begins with a general introduction to the UK publishing market and statistical overview of consumer book publishing.
Travel photography for travellers — an alternative guide describing how and where to take quirky photos of dragons in the City of London. The number of dragons lurking in various corners of the City is remarkable, including: Temple Bar, Bank, Holborn Viaduct, and Britain's largest meat market. Includes technical photo tips and dragon safari map.
Eadweard Muybridge, in the 1870's, began producing a series of photographs to capture the movements of horses — in order to settle a bet that the four feet of a galloping racehorse are sometimes all clear of the ground. Muybridge's photographic method was re-enacted at Ham Polo Ground, a stone's throw from his birthplace in Kingston, using an invited bevy of large format cameras.
Making photographs of the River Thames from a kayak — an account of this unique physical and visual balancing act guided by the time-honoured principle of simply messing about in boats.
Of puppets, philosophy and
pictorial representation
A philosophical primer for those interested
in understanding pictorial representation and how the two-dimensional array
of dots of a photograph can represent the three-dimensional world. Five
theories are sketched and commented on: Resemblance; Illusion; Semiotic; Make-Believe;
and Seeing-In.
Review of this fascinating exhibition of Victorian artists — such as Millais, Rossetti, Watts, Ruskin, RL Stevenson, Burne-Jones, Whistler, William Morris, Dickens and Carlyle — in Victorian photographs at London's Guildhall Art Gallery.
Text and photographs about the filming of a key scene in The Wolfman (release: 2009). This is fascinating, big budget movie-making that recreates Victorian London over two streets below Lincoln's Inn, and involves dozens of actors, over 100 crew, teams of horses and carriages, acres of artificial cobblestone and a mammoth rain machine suspended from the sky.
Some tips and an outline of the main features to consider when buying a standard or prosumer digital camera — for those not sure where to begin.
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