Saturday 7 April 2012

Some photography video links

 National Geographic contributor Joel Sartore talks about his biodiversity project; an epic personal mission to photograph all 6000 species of animals held in captivity in the USA.

http://ngstockblog.com/2012/04/joel-sartores-biodiversity-project-featured-on-carson-daly/


American photographer Ryan Schude breaks down the process for shooting and creating an incredibly complicated and perfectly lit scene at a diner:

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/04/06/composite-diner-photograph-shot-with-24-lights-over-12-hours/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29


A parody of some medication commercials for photography nerds:

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/04/05/fauxtographor-a-prescription-drug-commercial-parody/


Documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark shares a few of her thoughts on photography- how it's something that is relatively easy to make images at a competent level, but very difficult to excel at it:

http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/04/02/mary-ellen-mark-to-be-ok-at-something-is-easy/


Monday 2 April 2012

Battle scars.

My torso is looking rather mutilated after the surgery.



Lots of fluid started seeping out for the first time last night, which was a little unsettling. The wound was ok overnight with some gauze dressing just in case, but mid-morning after replacing the tape and gauze with tissues, they looked like this after 5-10 mins,