AuthorbyI am guessing by now you have been affected by the global Pandemic that Covid-19 has brought to the world, this is the first time I have lived though something like this happening on a such a global scale. With governments and people responding to this crisis with such widely differing responses, it is hard to …
AuthorbyTill September, we will have to wait and see what happens to the show later in the year. This email just arrived in my email inbox. It looks like the Coronavirus is going to affect this photography show as well. Hi Michael Wayne Plant, To date, The Photography Show & The Video Show …
AuthorbyPhotographers all have different approaches to their photographic equipment, While I am not necessarily a fan of the guys formerly from Top Gear now on Amazon with their Grand Tour show this is funny. However, the one with the donkeys is even more surreal. And it reminds me that if you are using long lens, …
AuthorbyPhotographic artists are notorious for not wanting to or being able to write about their art, they often refer to the fact that they are visual artists, to avoid writing about their work. I personally think that this is lazy thinking on their part and I to have been guilty of this myself. In the past …
AuthorbyThe next Photo Laboratory with Michael Wayne Plant (i.e moi) is on Monday the 9th of May. For more details see here: www.photographyworkshops.london/workshops/photo-laboratory. I throughly enjoyed the first session on the 25th of April. We had 14 people turn up for the inaugural Photo Laboratory evening at The Fox in Shoreditch and I can’t wait to see …
AuthorbyDo you have a support group, it is an idea that I have been attempting to implement. The creation of a photographer support group is not new, but it is something that often photographers do not normally consider. As we tend to work alone and often view fellow photographers as competitors and even worse as the …
AuthorbySome inspirational thoughts on photography. Paul Graham and Gerry Badger In conversation at www.bjp-online.com I love this statement by Paul Graham. “PG – I’m a firm believer in working in the world as-it-is, and arriving at your ideas through that. It has to be a balance between the conscious mind struggling to rationalise, to make sense of it …
AuthorbyI have been tweaking my website today, looking at how the navigation works and getting a few other things sorted. I have rewritten some of the texts that accompany the portfolios hopefully I managed to make the words flow better with less grammatical errors. Next up is the content of the individual galleries, I have been …
AuthorbyChina is proving far more interesting than I ever thought it would be. I will post about it when I have time and the inclination. For now all I have to say is that they have the most amazing new Metro that is clean and far better than our rattly old tube system. It is amazing …
AuthorbyNew Years Day and that time of year when I reflect on the ida of what I have achieved over the past year and wonder or plan what I am wanting to achieve for the next year. 2014, will be an interesting year for me as I have a number of things, that I want to …
