Quote of the Day – June 23 2015

“The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.”

Max Beerbohm

Fyi, for those who keep asking… I deleted my Facebook account ages ago.  It’s passe and a really grand waste of time.

It enriches only Facebook who gather your data, and those of your so-called ‘friends’ to sell more targeted advertising.

And more.

I expect a mass […]

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What Story Are We Telling? A tale of self-obsession?

Every 2 minutes today we snap as many photos as the whole of humanity took in the 1800s.

Largelydue to mobile phone, digital cameras are now ubiquitous – it is estimated that 2.5 billion people in the world today have a digital camera. If the average person snaps 150 photos this year that would be a […]

Mirrors

In a study titled “Reversed Facial Images and the Mere-Exposure Hypothesis,” psychologists Theodore H. Mita, Marshall Dermer and Jeffrey Knight demonstrate that “individuals will prefer a facial photograph that corresponds to their mirror image rather than to their true image.”

But what’s really interesting about the study is its exploration of why we find […]

Time to stop curating and start creating…

This is a post from a while ago when I actually thought I would have FAR more time to discuss photography production rather than analysis.

Well,  I’m so busy I have even less time now… but I’m starting this anyway. I get a LOT of questions from aspiring and professional photographers who want to venture into […]

A rabbit? Yes, just a rabbit…

I don’t normally do this – there are enough problems in this world to think about – but I became aware of something this week online that saddened me, touched my heart and I just couldn’t ignore.

You will find the story here:

http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/someone-out-trying-do-right-thing-needs-some-help-amanda-scott

A rabbit, you say? Yes, a rabbit.

Read the story. An animal that […]

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