It started completely accidently, with a digital camera that was abandoned by my mother in '04. This camera couldn't do much, soon after I purchased a Digital SLR. Since then I haven't stopped. At the time my friends were in bands, as were all their friends. I look back on the first gig I shot, just a month after my new purchase and cringe slightly. But the week after I went … [Read more...]
Photo Profile : David Center
Like many photographers that you read about; my beginnings in photography were modest to say the least. Point and shoot; that was about it. Photographs of the kids, or our vacations were things that relatives bugged me about for years to take, and I never really kept up. I never approached them as art, or as something sentimental. I felt I was always too busy. I picked … [Read more...]
25 Stunning Forgotten Images
April saw the second of the popular Flickr Photo themes kicking off on Seven by Five. The theme for April was "Forgotten". This post features twenty five of the great contributions to the flickr group. I would really encourage you to take part in the monthly challenges simply from the point of view that it forces you to take a particular style of photo but also it is … [Read more...]
Photo Profile : Carl Spring
My first experience of photography was with my parents on holidays. I can remember the thrill of mum letting me shoot a photo, and seeing it when they came back from being developed was always a magical moment. My real passion for photography started when my parents bought me a Canon SLR. The things I liked to shoot were bands and Skateboarding. I started to learn about … [Read more...]
Photo Profile : Sandy Simpson
When I was four I discovered ants following each other on our brick patio in San Francisco. My naked eyes are like microscopes. I spent a lot of time laying on that patio floor and studying them. I wondered how they knew to follow each other and how they knew where to go when the other ants were out of sight. I'd experiment by removing a tiny twig in their path to see if … [Read more...]