Blue Eyes Photography

Photo of the day - Tree Ferns

Sue — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:22:55 +0000

Backlit Tree Ferns on a rare warm Summer’s day.

Photograph for today - Thaxted Windmill

Sue — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:22:50 +0000

Thaxted Windmill, Essex on a Summer’s evening.

Caught on Camera

Sue — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:58:58 +0000

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.

Today’s photograph - Blossom in Harlow

Sue — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:40:04 +0000

Taken last Spring this blossom was simply stunning.

Photo of the day - Fishing Boat, Calella, Spain

Sue — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:34:38 +0000

It was a lovely deserted beach. Mostly because it was March!

Photograph for today - Blossom, Harlow, Essex

Sue — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:29:11 +0000

Plagiarism

Sue — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:54:48 +0000

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.

Wanted 21 Entrepreneurs for Sept’07

Sue — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:38:17 +0000

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!

It’s all gone blurry

Sue — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:49:06 +0000

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 was his – comment about photography & art:

“If photography is art, then does technology not make us all potential artists with a digital camera or mobile phone camera in our hands?”

For me that’s a bit like saying that owning a cooker makes us all potential chefs. True it may be fun to try, but doesn’t talent have a role to play? Oh yes and hours of training and then practising too …?

How many pixels?

Sue — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:50:18 +0000

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?