Category: Promotions
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The Exhibition Catalogue
One of the hardest books to write – and the easiest to illustrate – is an exhibition catalogue. It can also be one of the dullest. A lot of my photographic bookshelves contain these sorts of thing. I have purchased them from second-hand shops as examples of a famous photographer’s work. Often these are the…
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Promise Of Change
Change can disturb the older person – we grow so tied to things that we are familiar with that we baulk at anything new. It will all be so hard! But what are we to say when the changes are going to be done by others, but will benefit us? I’m as greedy for undeserved…
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Kerb Collection
We have several religious holidays each year – and supplementary civic and commercial one’s as well to break up the routine. But none are more welcome than the biannual kerb collection of hard goods rubbish. My life is balanced between two councils, so I get four a year. You can be no richer than that.…
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Disenchantment
As opposed to dat enchantment… The state of sobriety that lets you look at internet advertisements for new cameras and lenses and not go all weak and fuzzy. The part of you that looks to the bottom of the blurb and notes the price. The cynical tendency to want value for money and realise that…
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The Lecture Circuit
As opposed to the trade show circuit – and how they affect the casual photographic viewer. I had a chance for many years to participate in trade shows and professional conferences. I still do, but on a much less involved level – and may be in a better position to see what they offer. Let…
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You Can’t Get One
But that doesn’t stop the YouTube blabberer from telling you that they have one and it is the most wonderful thing in the world. That is one-upmanship disguised as social media presentation. The company that makes them cannot turn them out fast enough due to virus-related material shortages so the price of the secondhand ones…
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The Wedding Landscape
Or the landscape wedding. You choose which door to open – they both hide hungry tigers. I attended a talk by a well-known photographer who does weddings as well as portraiture – and does both things very well. There was a screen presentation of some of his images and they all looked to be far…
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The Executive Committee Of The AIOU
Will deliver its ruling after consultation with representatives of interstate organisations. Was that a cork popping? I think negotiations have begun. Now we’ll see some art and science! The formation of a professional body to oversee trade is one thing. If it is allied to an trade organisation to oversee art, that is another. If…
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” I Read This Review…”
Keep reading. Gather more of them. Search different websites and watch different YouTube channels. Ask around at the club – at the school. Ask at the pub. Ask at the dinner table. make notes of all the answers and prepare a data base for yourself, cross-referencing the opinions. Go to the public library and ask…
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The Loss Of DP Review
Is the current buzz of the internet. If it goes ahead, the site and channel stop in April and disappear sometime afterwards. The reason given is cost-cutting within the current state of the US economy by Amazon – the owners of the property. With 11 people listed as the staff, I wonder whether that really…
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