On 15 November 2008 my girlfriend fiancée and I went to New York City for 7 days in what turned out to be our most second most amazing holiday ever. I took the photographs (of which there were thousands) and she kept the diary. We managed to cram a ridiculous amount into the short time we had there but what a fantastic time it was. Read more to find out what we got up to…
So yesterday we had the day off work and we decided to go to Anstruther (admittedly, we fancied trying the award winning fish & chips at the Anstruther Fish Bar). If you’re from the UK you’ll probably have experienced first hand the heavy snowfall that we’ve been having and Edinburgh was no exception. I took my camera gear with me not knowing what the landscape in the area was but expecting to get a few ‘white’ shots nonetheless. I forgot, however, that Anstruther is right on the coast and so escaped most of the snowfall…
If you’re a regular visitor of dpreview.com you’ll probably know that they’ve got a new section on their site devoted to challenges. It seems that there’s challenge sites all over the place and dpreview.com have finally caught up. I thought I’d get involved and was very pleasantly surprised with the result…
These are the three words that no photographer with tens of thousands of digital photos stored on their hard disk wants to hear. Ironically, my own stomach churning hard drive failure story started as I was trying to implement a new backup solution to avoid such an incident happening but instead it seemed to be the trigger…
I wasn’t aware of the online petiton to clarify the law on photography in public places, but apparently it attracted over 5,500 signatures. And earlier today Downing Street confirmed that “There are no legal restrictions on photography in public places” but went on to say, usurprisingly, that “the law applies to photographers as it does to anybody else in a public place”…







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