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Manufactured Landscapes

I had planned my evening. My wife would stay home (her choice, I hasten to add) while I went out to the cinema alone (as is my wont) to see something she wouldn’t be interested in; something cheesy and crude. I had narrowed it down to two options, and was 99% decided to go for [...]

Popularity contest

This is the most viewed photo in my flickr album, with more than twice as many views as the next most popular photo. I have no idea why. Is it because one of the tags is “bed”? Is there a large amount of people out there interested in photographs of velvet?
Your guess is as good [...]

Wow

Just found this via the Radiohead site and had to share - incredible pictures.

first memory

My earliest memory (as far as I can remember) is a family photo taken in a high street photographer’s studio in Exeter (Arthur Buxton, Cowick Street), where I grew up. I was about two years old at the time, according to my parents. It was a photo of myself and my brother and sister. I [...]

Watch this space

While reading an article about moving house with children, I came across this:
“A researcher working on a photography project with three-year-olds found that some children took pictures of empty spaces where they had once seen something memorable, which suggests that preschoolers have a powerful connection with their surroundings.”
I found this fascinating, although I’m not sure [...]

34 today

Darling wifey bought me a negative scanner for my birthday, so now I can trawl through and upload all (well not all) my old 35mm photos. Just imagine - my daughters may even need me one day to explain to them what 35mm film was, and how back in the old days of the 20th [...]

Picture box

I’ve finally gone and made a Flickr album. All the cool kids have them, so I figured this would make me cool too, right?
There’s a little more background on the trip seen in the photos over at our family blog.