Archive for January, 2008

Wonderful

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Untitled on Flickr

Untitled, by Superape

One of the things about the square format I find difficult is the sense of compositional challenge - without a long side to draw the eye, what do you do?

Superape has evidently overcome this challenge, as evidenced by this wonderful picture of a bike shop’s workbench.  The strong diagonals in this, the wonderful red tones, as well as the authentic and textural clutter of the work surface made this one an instant favourite for me.

Check out the rest of his Rolleicord pictures for more quality.

Uncontrolled rant at the celebration of mediocrity present in today’s society

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

(first posted on my blog, but I thought I might share this here!!)

I’ve just come back from my local camera club (’York photographic society’) where we had an ‘exhibition’ - actually a couple of CD-roms of prizewinning entries to a couple of competitions. The first was the FIAP: ” FIAP 23rd Colour Slide Biennial 2004″. Now, Ok, this is a few years old now but I thought it might be interesting.

Wrong. (more…)