Top Ten Photography Books for 2012

England's The Independent has published a list of its Top Ten Photography Books for 2012.

Probably not surprisingly, a book celebrating the charms of London tops the British daily's list.  The newspaper's website incorrectly identifies it as 'London Street Photography'; the correct title is London, Portrait of a City.  This looks like a gorgeous photo book with images of arguably the world's premier, most diverse, city so let's not...

Thrilling Kite Aerial Photography (KAP)!

"he results can be pretty amazing in the right setting" is how DPSchool describes aerial photography by way of 'unmanned' kite.  Looking at said results, methinks the qualifier "in the right setting" is superfluous!

Consider this smashing shot of a brilliantly-lit and packed college football stadium.  The photo is an event with the red and green...

(Larger than) Life, and Death

La Mort La Vie.  That's the name of an exhibition that just opened in Staten Island, New York, and the emphasis is more on the 'Mort' part – Death.

Photographer Agnes Thor has long had a preoccupation with death: "Death has been on my mind for so long I can’t remember what sparked it to life" (a...

Two Exhibitions: (Larger than) Life, and Death

La Mort La Vie.  That's the name of an exhibition that just opened in Staten Island, New York, and the emphasis is more on the 'Mort' part – Death.

Photographer Agnes Thor has long had a preoccupation with death: "Death has been on my mind for so long I can’t remember what sparked it to life" (a strangely inverted play on words there) and a personal tragedy was the trigger...

The Ethics of Photograph Manipulation
 Part 1: Introduction

A Thousand-Word Lie

"One picture is worth a thousand words", so goes a hackneyed old saying.  If the saying is true and that picture is a lie, then what do we have?  We have a thousand-word lie.  And it is indeed possible to lie in photography; from fibs and little white lies through to out-and-out deceptions and black lies.

This subject has gained popularity of late to...

The Queer and the Kooky, Plus Google Outdoes Dali!

Welcome to our periodic roundup of all that is queer and kooky in the world of photography.  Here's what made the news in the past 24 hours.

If you don't know what NGC 6872 is, be informed that it is the World Champion, er, we mean the Cosmos Champion, galaxy.  'Size?' you ask?  Suffice it to say...

May Ronen Goldman ‘Live in Interesting Dreams!’

Let's pay a visit to the René Magritte of Photography: an unique photographic artist, Ronen Goldman.

Goldman is not, per se, a great photographer; he's a great creator of situations, sets, scenes, tableaux, most of which are, let us say, 'dreamlike'.  How does he do it?  All he does is translate his dream into reality – and then photographs it!  Haven't you always wanted to do just that?!

The slumberous inspiration...

Calling All Canonistas! — Part II !

We did this only last week but no, we're not pushing Canon or playing favourites; it's just that Canon is making both, cameras and waves.  All we wanna do is report the camera-making and the wave-making.

Looks like Canon has fallen victim to 'The Instagram Effect' for its new PowerShot N is . . . square-shaped!

Instagram influence is also evident in the positioning of the camera: Canon's press release...

Calling all iPhoneistas!

If you're an iPhone aficionado, this post is for you – here are four nifty, spanking new add-ons for your camera.

GoldenPic is an app that allows you to anticipate the kind of light you can expect at a particular place at a particular time.  It's main claim to fame is that it provides four mini-charts, Sunrise, Sunset, Moon, and Weather, showing timings for Blue...