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Review: Take Your Photography to the Next Level
From the Inspiration to the Image, By George Barr
A Great Inspiration For When You're Stuck or Frustrated
This is an unusual book, being almost as much about the psychology of photography as its craft. There are better books about technique, but none I know better lead the reader to analyse his or her successes, failures and way forwards in photography. If you feel stuck or frustrated, unable to improve, or have ever thought "I can’t photograph anything here" then this may be just the book for you.
Legislative Stupidity
Observations on the stupid “anti-photography” laws introduced in Britain in February 2009 Continue reading
Website Returns, and New Photos
Apologies for the state of the website over the last week – a problem with the hosting server. I seem to have worked around it for now, so thanks for your patience and those who alerted me to the problem. Continue reading
Photographing the Southwest
Simply the best photographic guides to this amazing scenery Continue reading
Quantum of Disappointment
I didn’t like “Quantum of Solace” – here’s my review! Continue reading
Underwater White Balance
If you’re lucky enough to own either a waterproof camera, or a waterproof housing for your digital camera, you’ll have experienced the problem of trying to correct for the extreme blue cast of shots taken underwater. The problem is that Continue reading
Photography Blog
I’ve now created a separate category for photography-related blog posts, so if you’re interested you can track these separately Continue reading
A Shortage of Analysts?
Bemoaning the systemic failings which are leading to a general lack of good business analysts Continue reading
Meltdown
A cracking thriller, and an intriguing insight into the world of high finance Continue reading
My Grand Circle Tour
My “Grand Circle” tour of Southwestern USA: what worked, what didn’t, and how to avoid sleep deprivation and scurvy! Continue reading
Using Volume Shadowing with Ntbackup Under Vista
The brain-dead backup function of Windows Vista is enormously annoying. There are known ways to get good old ntbackup working, but they have their limitations. Read this article about my attempts to get round some of those limitations. Continue reading
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