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Continue reading →: Photographing the Dachshund UN
The Fierce Festival is a wonderful art/performance thing that happens in/to Birmingham each year. But this year festival artistic directors Laura McDermott and Harun Morrison really outdid themselves with the promise of 40-50 sausage dog delegates attending a scale replica of the United Nations General Assembly. The live art installation…
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Continue reading →: Photographing the landscapes of Birmingham
So today was week two (of four) of Matt & Pete’s Photo School. Last month, we played with finding the decisive moment in street photography, this time it was landscapes and creating huge panoramic vistas using the iconic buildings of Birmingham. More adventures from Photo School…
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Continue reading →: “The years have passed and so have I” – R.I.P. Davy Jones
Some personal memories of Davy Jones, who passed away this week aged 66… I became a Davy Jones addict aged 12-13 when the BBC started playing re-runs of The Monkees on a Saturday morning. They were like a human version of the Banana Splits. Davy was so… well, beautiful is…
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Continue reading →: McCullin – A film by Jacqui Morris – a first review
Tonight I was privileged to see the (first-edit) premiere of ‘McCULLIN – a film by Jacqui Morris’. Here’s the trailer… McCullin Trailer from Jacqui Morris on Vimeo. This cinema-quality documentary film recalls the work of Don McCullin, the celebrated war photographer who has taken some of the most affecting war,…
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Continue reading →: Roller disco by the reservoir
It’s a disco but it’s on wheels. It’s roller disco! Back from the 70s/80s and currently going strong in 2012 at the old-school neon pink glitz of the Tower Ballroom by Edgbaston Reservoir in Birmingham. Tonight featured a very mixed crowd (from 18 to 70+), a punter being stretchered off…
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Continue reading →: Street photography and the discomfort of strangers
Today was the inaugural five-hour lesson of Matt & Pete’s Photo School in which 10 strangers met upstairs in Birmingham’s Victoria pub to learn more about photography and how to improve our own efforts. The framework of the day – after tea and coffee – involved an hour of learning…
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Continue reading →: Photo School, Friday School and Social Media Group Therapy
This is obviously the Year of the School. Firstly, there’s my moveable cake-fuelled feast of learning, the Friday School, while over on the other office sofa, Pete has just launched Matt and Pete’s Photo School. Photo School is a monthly ‘photo club’, that’s also designed to combine learning with fun.…
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Continue reading →: Welcome to Friday school (or how I developed my own freelance training programme)
UPDATE: I’ve blogged a fuller version of this as a guest post on Firehead.net if you want to know more: How I teach myself digital skills using cake!
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Continue reading →: Cantal press trip blogged – and a travel request
Just back from a week in the centre of France in a little known area called the Cantal. It may be “one of the most sparsely populated and geographically isolated French departments”, according to Wikipedia, but it does have one big claim in that the region encompasses Europe’s largest volcano.…
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Continue reading →: Following the North Cotswold Hunt 2012
Being in the Cotswolds at the start of the new year has been lovely and surprisingly mild and sunny. Today we happened on the North Cotswold Hunt – no longer of foxes but of a scented trail laid down just ahead of the hunt by a set of runners on all-terrain…
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