Category: Publishing
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Let AI Write Your Epitaph
I don’t mean the real one when you turn in your dinner pail – I mean your professional one when you decide to retire. If you are hesitant to tell lies about yourself to boost your status in the photographic community, let a good AI program do it for you. Likewise, if you are afraid…
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Change More Than Your Underwear
But don’t let me stop you from changing that too… I used to supply prints to people of their photo shoots. I’d process them at home at the cost of my health and that of the water system. Then came digital. Then I processed digital and made prints for people on my inkjet printer. At…
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The Editor With The Whip
I often wondered about Perry White at the Daily Planet. Why was he always in such a wound-up state of tizz? Why did he wear a waistcoat? Why did he object to being called ” Chief “? Then I took up the business of business columns and non- business newsletters. The first was paid for…
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The Photographic Essay
Versus the set of prints in an envelope that you have just collected from the chemist. Pass both around – the first will get you famous and the second will get you avoided. Because people really only believe it if they see it on a screen with someone telling them it is important. That’s why…
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Self-Publish Or Not?
What do you get when you self-publish? What do you risk? And what happens when you get someone else to show your work? I can ask this as I am in this position a lot. My writing and my photography can go out on my own channels, or it can be part of someone else’s.…
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Famous Quotes
Are starting to become infamous – the good ones are not true and the true ones are not good. I am starting to discover that no-one ever said what they said. The aphorisms, jibes, and zingers that make up our common parlance are mostly invented by net writers who can’t get you to read their…
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The Entire Plan
And why we don’t have one. I never realised at the start of my photographic career…and I use the term in its broadest sense…that I never had a complete plan. I was within a small circle of endeavour that was whole; the photos I took and developed were for the high school yearbook, and this…