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I launched my personal project oldmapsofparis.com a few months ago and it has been a huge success both technically and from the feedback of visitors to the site. When I launched the site I just wanted to get the maps up and online and at the time I didn't create a home page. If you navigated to the site you went straight to the first...

I came across this documentary on PetaPixel yesterday and thought I would share it. Everything is a Remix is a short film by Kirby Ferguson that puts forward the idea that most things we celebrate as original and creative are based on previous work by others. Kirby presents a fascinating argument backed up by some convincing ...

I recently discovered the work of Erik Johansson who shares a lot of my beliefs about photography, then yesterday I happened to stumble upon a TED video he did last November. It's only 6 minutes long and well worth the watch, as not only does he talk about how he started creating images like this, but he also shows some of the so...

I mentioned last week that I was updating my site and I launched the update over the weekend. I have focused my spare time on this the last few weeks since finishing the Darker Side of the Orchids project. Although I only recently relaunched the site back in October using an off the shelf theme, I couldn't find one that I really like...

It has been a while since I shared an inspiring TED talk. There are plenty of them on there, but I watch this one the other day by Simon Sineck and it really inspired me to to think more about why I do things. It also inspired me to buy his book and the last one that did that was Ken Robinson's excellent talk on how schools kill creativi...

A couple of months ago I came across an article on how Xerox have developed a new algorithm to sort photos based on their aesthetic qualities, you can try the free online demo here. At the time I thought "That's cool!". Then I gave it some more thoughts and realised that this is a cool technology, but not how they are using it.

Now the orchids can play, without approval or obey. Inhaling pleasure to excess, Their downfall and demise is their quest. View the first and second images in the series.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.- Ansel Adams Photoshop seems to be getting a lot of flak lately, so I wanted to post something in support of such an amazing tool.