Shopping

I recently took part in Manchester Open City afternoon.

The project involved photographers walking around Manchester capturing images that give the feel and look of the city.

The group I was with was given the theme of shopping and instead of trying to take photographs of shops,I decided to try and capture the downside of shopping which for me is the boredom as you drag yourself around the shops.

Out photographer guide Mark Page gave me a good tip,just shoot and see what you come up with.You can read Mark's write up of the event here

But for the moment here are some of my efforts

What is England

An exciting new photography project has just been launched in the UK.

Entitled What is England,it will feature 50 photographers with each of them representing one of the 50 counties in England. Their brief is to represent their own style of photography as well as their nominated county. Some live in the county they represent and some are discovering or rediscovering it for the first time.

There will be four groups of pictures issued across the year featuring the themes,Group,Work,Play and Urban resulting in 300 images by January 2011.

Ht-Mark Page

Could not resist this photo

I whipped my camera out of my bag in Manchester earlier this week-too late to capture the pigeons swooping down but hopefully capturing the moment.

Open source camera software

An interesting development in the world of Photography (via Robin Hamman)

Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an open-source digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks.

The result is that

camera performance will be no longer be limited by the software that comes pre-installed by the manufacturer. Virtually all the features of the Stanford camera – focus, exposure, shutter speed, flash, etc. – are at the command of software that can be created by inspired programmers anywhere

The Orange Jelly gets it

The Telegraph is featuring the high speed photography of Alan Sailor featuring the moment a pellet fired from an air rifle hits an object.

There are seventeen pictures in all.This is my favourite as an orange jelly gets it



Ht-Technical Fault