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Tag: photography

  • Dan reads a book.

    "One of the best things about working at The Bodleian... Pretending to be a PhD student..."

    Dan's boss posted pictures to her LinkedIn of her pretending to be a PhD student, so Dan shares the ones he was in (and some social media featuring his kids).

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    • Repost
    • posted 3 September, 2019
  • Image representing post: Passport Photos

    Passport Photos

    Passport photo rules make self-expression impossible. Or do they?

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    • Repost
    • posted 23 August, 2019
  • Rory's darkroom

    Darkroom Printing

    Rory tells the story of how he set up a darkroom in his (spare) windowless bathroom and shares his experience of becoming an increasingly analogue photographer in a digital world.

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    • posted 21 July, 2019
  • Picture of a hipster used by MIT Technology Review

    Man angry his photo was used to prove all hipsters look alike - then learns it wasn't him



    A man threatened to sue a technology magazine for using his image in a story about why all hipsters look the same, only to find out the picture was of a completely different guy.

    ...

    Sheena Goodyear (CBC Radio)
    The original article was pretty interesting, too.

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    • Repost
    • posted 8 March, 2019
  • Lena, then and now

    Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs




    Every morning, Lena Forsen wakes up beneath a brass-trimmed wooden mantel clock dedicated to “The First Lady of the Internet.”


    It was presented to her more than two decades ago by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, in recognition of the pivotal—and altogether unexpected—role she played in shaping the digital world as we …

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    • posted 1 February, 2019
  • Thoughts on Reflex 2.0

    So Reflex are now designing the 2.0 version of the camera they’ve so far yet to ship version 1.0 of – or even find manufacturing partners for. Add to this the nonsense of trying to build a set of primes, film processor and scanner without securing any more funding and I’m increasingly leaning towards this…

    …

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    • posted 2 September, 2018

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