my Technorati claim token
I thought I should register this blog with Technorati as I don’t really think many people know about it and apparently this is just one of many ways to get new visitors. Having said that I’ve also heard that Technorati is pretty irrelevant these days but hey, anything’s better than nothing.
Anyway, they have a really [...]
have you pleased anyone lately?
I was having a tinker with MarsEdit last night, trying to get it to run a preview of my blog posts as I work on them. Still can’t get it working but in the process of reading up on it I read found a very interesting post on the developer Daniel Jalkut’s blog about his attitude to ‘approval seeking’ as facilitated by the likes of Twitter and Facebook. It so closely echoed my feelings on the subject that it could have been written for me or even by me.
it’s tinker time
I like to mess about with my websites – gives me something to do during the holidays/days off other than watching TV, drinking beer at 11am or arguing with idiots on Eurogamer. :)
This week I’ve latched onto a lovely new theme called ‘The World in 35mm‘ for Pixelpost. It’s working nice over at The Daily [...]
…and we’re back!
Further to yesterday’s unpleasant discovery that something in my back end was b0rked, I went ahead and upgraded all the Pixelpost files to the latest version and that appears to have fixed it. Who knows what I did…
I hope your Christmas week is going nicely. I’m off to do some food shopping and to think [...]
we’ll be back shortly…
Apparently this image to the left is all anyone’s seen of my blog for almost a week now, but seeing as I haven’t updated it in almost a month, I had no idea. I was tinkering with it last week and took it all offline deliberately for a couple of days, but I thought [...]
some TV exposure for Not Alone
You may recall I worked on a feature for my mate Tristan Versluis a while back, a horror called Not Alone starring Lucy Benjamin. I wrote a wee bit about it here.
Lucy was just on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! in the UK and is doing the publicity circuit now. Tomorrow (Thursday [...]
a pretty cool milestone
A few weeks back I mentioned that the website for 1 Day had gone live, a movie I did some stills for in 2008. It opens next week and today I arrived at work to discover a bunch of my photos from it on page 3 of The Independent. It turns out the film, which [...]
ten great photography blogs
I’ve tried to cut down on the amount of stat-checking since my crisis of confidence a couple of months ago, but I do still sneak a look more often than I should, and I keep seeing links from a site called Blogtrepreneur. I’ve always assumed it was just one of those photoblog aggregate sites like [...]
1 day is coming
In August 2008 I spent a couple of days in Birmingham shooting stills on a new film by Penny Woolcock called 1 Day. I’ve not been able to really talk about the film until now, but they’ve started their publicity drive so some of my shots are in the public domain at last. It tells [...]
what’s happening with iPhone camera apps?
I love my iPhone for all sorts of reasons. One of them is that although it has a terrible camera (as mobile phone cameras go – and yes, even the new 3GS camera is pretty crappy in comparison to the rest of the market), it’s fun to use.
Because I take my phone everywhere, I have [...]
meltdown: refocussing
I’ve had a bit of a meltdown in the last few weeks and it’s had the result of forcing me to rethink what these blogs mean to me, what photography has come to mean to me, what I mean to myself, what other aspects of my life mean to me, and what’s most important.
Basically, photography [...]
go the extra mile
Thought I’d give a motivational sermon today.
I did a ‘half day’ job for a client recently, portraits to publicise a documentary they’d made for the BBC. They’d asked my rates, I told them, they decided it was a half-day job, I booked it in. It subsequently changed date numerous times. So many, in fact, that [...]
fotomoto: prints and e-cards made e-asy (and 50% cheaper!)
A few photoblogs I visit, such as Daily Dose of Imagery and Chromasia, have recently added the Fotomoto toolbar to their front page and seeing as it’s pretty damn good, so have I. It’s currently free and requires nothing but plopping the Javascript into the HTML code for your photoblog installation. There’s also a little [...]
OMG! iPhone gallery updated!
I wasn’t completely happy with the iPhone gallery I started a few weeks ago. Two reasons really – wasn’t aesthetically pleasing any more, and had an annoying (none-existent) content management system that meant I had to re-upload the whole gallery every time I wanted to change one picture.
I changed over to the latest version of [...]
how my gran won a photofriday
Occasionally I submit an entry to Photofriday – depends on the subject matter and if I have anything which is worthy! Last week the subject was ‘Grandmother’ so I submitted my favourite shot of my gran, Winnie. I shot it a few years ago with a borrowed Jessops flash, top-mounted (this was before the days [...]
doctor strobist (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the light)
I first picked up a DSLR (or indeed any SLR) in 2005 when I bought my Nikon D70, and for the next 3 years flash lighting scared me witless. In a medium where light is everything, being unwilling and unable to get a grip on how to light with flash was sort of an embarrassment, [...]
get over your fears
I’m always interested in reading about folk that are successful doing creative things that they love to do (as opposed to punching a well-paid but tedious, soul destroying time card just for the $$$) – a couple of my favourites are David Hobby’s Strobist site, Chase Jarvis’ blog and John Keatley’s blog (yes, they’re all [...]
error!
Haven’t done much in the way of photography recently, but I have been tinkering with my site again!
I put a lot of the code for my websites together myself, either by pinching bits from other places and reverse engineering it to learn how it works and fit it to my own design, or editing [...]
chasing the dream
If you’ve poked around in my archive or on my portfolio site you’ll know that a large proportion of my work is on film and TV sets. Unit stills photography is both a personal passion and a career that’s very much in it’s infancy for me (you could argue that all photographers are constantly working [...]
new iPhone photography page on ‘my glass eye’
I already use Flickr to host my iPhone photos that are worth sharing, as well as displaying the most recent 5 in the sidebar on the front page of this blog, but I decided I wanted somewhere on this site to properly showcase them so I’ve just added a new page – iPhone photos.
I selected [...]
recognition! fame beckons…
I’ve just noticed a number of hits coming from Smashing Magazine, where it seems my glass eye is considered one of 50 wonderful, inspiring photoblogs, alongside such equally (if not more so) deserving blogtacular luminaries as Dave Nightingale’s chromasia, Sam Javanrouh’s daily dose of imagery and Kenny Weng’s moodaholic.
That’s pretty gratifying, to say the least, [...]
action -vs- inaction
An interesting article about New years Resolutions in Resurgence magazine, as sent to me by my secret spy on the web (that would be my mum, then). I particularly like the last line of the following submission, and although the context of the words in this example are quite specific, it’s an attitude that feels [...]
twitter: an update
Well, who was I fooling? Professional updates only, indeed. There does seem to be something quite engaging about posting snippets of your life for the world to read or totally ignore, while peeping in on other people. Don’t think I’ll be posting any ‘lunch’ updates though, I’m sticking to my guns on that one.
Twitter is one of those things I’ve still not really got a good handle on yet. I can see it being used all over the world by all sorts of people, from Barrack Obama to (insert your favourite blogger here), but using it regularly seems to open a window on one’s life that I’m not [...]
