Photo of the day - Tree Ferns
Backlit Tree Ferns on a rare warm Summer’s day.
September 14th, 2007
Photograph for today - Thaxted Windmill
Thaxted Windmill, Essex on a Summer’s evening.
September 12th, 2007
Caught on Camera
Noticed an interesting article in the Telegraph: Edwin Smith’s England caught on Camera
It’s all about an architect, Edwin Smith, who was also a photographer building a substantial collection of photographs that are now very well looked after.
In this digital age it makes me wonder if we are losing a chunk of history - photographs that are never printed, but still important as a record of the world around us. After all I doubt Edwin Smith appreciated the extent to which the British landscape may change when he composed some of his photographs.
September 10th, 2007
Today’s photograph - Blossom in Harlow
Taken last Spring this blossom was simply stunning.
August 18th, 2007
Photo of the day - Fishing Boat, Calella, Spain
It was a lovely deserted beach. Mostly because it was March!
August 16th, 2007
Plagiarism
It’ s a sign of the times, when there is an entire website devoted to plagiarism, content theft and copyright issues. One article in particular drew my attention, and although I have no work with the website in question, I am still very aware that people think they can help themselves to your work.
Read more here: Art Theft Scandals Rock deviantArt
I know systems are being developed to track these types of copyright theft, but still it’s amazing the number of times I am asked to provide images without a copyright mark “to enhance the customer’s viewing experience” on a Gallery’s website. Granted you can’t assume every viewer is a thief, but equally a girl’s got to make a living.
June 5th, 2007
Wanted 21 Entrepreneurs for Sept’07
Now this is much better than the Apprentice! If you are interested in taking your business forward then this has got to be worth a look. I’m not on commission, but I have benefited hugely from Judith’s straight talking coaching in the recent past, so I’d encourage you to read on.
Judith is launching an Entrepreneurs Business School. This is a year-long business coaching programme which can accommodate only 21 Elite Entrepreneurs. Starting September 2007. She will take just 21 highly motivated individuals and work with them in three small groups of 7 for one year, inspiring them to be their best business success, and teaching them everything she knows about how to do that based on 30 years’ experience of her own businesses and running those of her clients as firstly their accountant, and lately as their business coach and mentor.
The format is ten months’ group business coaching delivered over the academic year, including one day-long London workshop each month and a follow-up 1-2-1 coaching call with her and various other fun aspects. Trust me you’ll learn & laugh loads!
Interested? To learn more about the Entrepreneur’s Business School follow me!
June 4th, 2007
It’s all gone blurry
I noticed a blog entry by the editor of Computing magazine whilst roaming around the web as you do! He’d been invited to take part in a debate on the overlap between technology and art and found himself on a panel of experts that included the founder of the Stuckist movement - self-appointed guardians of ‘proper’ art and up and coming artist Dan Proops.
You can read more about it here, but what drew my attention (more…)
June 1st, 2007
How many pixels?
The June edition of Professional Photographer profiles Damien & Julie Lovegrove, and their answer to the question “who is your average client?” made me smile.
“There’s two types of clients you can have ‘warm & fuzzy’ or ‘cold and prickly’. The latter look at the album and say ‘how many pixels has your camera got?’ We run a mile from people like that. The warm and fuzzies will look at the album and get caught up in the emotion of the day’s story.”
I think we all want clients who appreciate & love what we create for them, but it is reassuring to know that everyone gets the odd person who’s more interested in the gear used. Do author’s get quizzed about the type of pen they use too, I wonder?
May 21st, 2007