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I’ve used Aperture enough now to know that I mostly like it. I knew from the early conversions that I like the business end. Subject to the fact I’m using an unsupported camera with the lack of detailed accuracy of the profile that that entails, I really like the results.
The interface and file [...]

As a social phenomenon the way that businesses have been able to pass costs onto customers in the last decade or so has been interesting to watch. We are all now a part of the development team. We have got used to product manuals that we have to pay to print, and to [...]

I’ve been discussing the idea of photographing close to home, and/or things that you know well with a number of people. It has also come up a couple of times in the comments here.
One correspondent said something along the lines of ‘but you live somewhere interesting and beautiful’ which made me laugh as I’ve [...]

Colour profiles use the ICC standard. I’ve often (OK, once or twice) wondered why people who use ACR (and now Lightroom) complain about the colour profiles available to them for their cameras. If push comes to shove in many other raw converters then it is possible to get a profile made and the [...]

Ernie: A photographer’s memoir – ISBN 0 8118 2963 4 Copyright 2001 – Chronicle Books – Tony Mendoza
A book review for David and Erik :-)
Eighty pages. About two thirds of which are pictures of a cat. Pictures of a cat that prove that pictures of a cat need not be trite. This is, [...]

I’ve already had the first tick bite of the year. That is early. Very early.
It is national (UK) tick prevention week next week.
Take this seriously, people.

[There are regional variants of this. Substitute 'gull' or 'sparrow' depending on where you live. Non-UK readers can provide their own examples.]
I think two things when I hear somebody say that. One is that I have a soft spot for any really successful animal. Even midges (note: I haven’t seen [...]

I hadn’t realised that March had ended. This (podcast) is really sad. Worse, even, than the Deutsche Börse stuff that I commented upon the other day.

I don’t know if you’ve been following George Barr’s To the Next Level articles (one & two). They have enough truth in them to be amusing, but yet are somehow unsatisfying as an analysis of what makes good photography.
If you look at the seven steps to Aesthetic Heaven in article one – this implies [...]

The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2007 will be awarded to a living photographer, of any nationality, who has made the most contribution to photography in Europe between 1 October 2005 ~ 30 September 2006.

I’ve been looking through the book produced showing the work of the shortlisted candidates for this year’s Deutsche Börse prize.
My cat [...]