I’ve been thinking recently about visitor attractions – museums, theme parks, art galleries and so on – and the ways in which they can, either intentionally or not, create great photo opportunities which help to enhance the visitor experience. The link between photography and visitor attractions goes back almost as far as the invention of [...]
As announced today on the Flickr blog (and as reported by TechCrunch), Flickr – the photo sharing site , owned by Yahoo! – has just added a ‘geomapping’ feature to their site. The move follows a fairly long period of community activity to promote geomapping, using third-party APIs and tools along with ‘geotags’ – codes [...]
Spent my day at work (the Science Museum in South Kensington) today with some photographers, doing a photoshoot for our new website. Because they were from an external agency, I had to supervise them all day, but it was good fun and meant a day out of the office. The aim was for the photos [...]
Crikey. Have been too busy to have been able to think of much to post here recently, so this will be one of those inward-looking posts that just quickly lets you know what I’m doing at the moment. Have settled in quite nicely to my new flat in South London suburbia. It’s very quiet, but [...]
This is a bit of an experimental video piece that I shot (on my phone) whilst sitting on the Northern Line some time ago. It’s in part inspired by L’Autre, a book of ‘stolen’ portraits secretly snapped on the Paris Metro. I was interested to see how daring I could be in filming people without [...]
Today’s Independent contains an article headlined The Prying Game which starts “Frankie Roberto likes to socialise online. The University College London student has a website and a weblog, and regularly posts profiles of himself on several of the hundreds of social-networking websites on which he hopes to meet like-minded people.” The article goes on to [...]
Having just bought my new mobile phone, one of the first things I did was to install Nokia Lifeblog 1.5, on both the phone and my computer. The idea behind the application is to create an ongoing personal multimedia diary, synched between your phone and your computer, which stores your photos, text messages, video clips [...]
Yesterday I had a couple of photos that I wanted to use up on a disposable camera and an hour or so to spare, and so I decided to contribute to the ‘Living In A Tube Map Project’. I hopped on a northbound Northern Line tube train, and alighted at the intriguing-sounding ‘Totteridge And Whetstone’ [...]
The Going Underground blog pointed me towards a new London photo project, Living in a Tube Map. Based on a wiki, the site invites people to submit photos of the areas around tube stations. The results will apparently be converted into an exhibition. I submitted some old photos for Homerton and Mornington Crescent, but the [...]