Tag: photography

Portraits of children and where they sleep

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Where Children Sleep is an eye-opening project by photographer James Mollison that takes a look at child​ren from all across the globe and the diverse environments they go to sleep in. The series presents a portrait of each child or adolescent accompanied by a shot of their bedrooms. While some have a bounty of possessions and a lavish bed to rest their head on at night, the images reveal that some are not as fortunate.

A really fascinating concept and insight into children’s lives around the world.

See more here.​​

Pressgram is coming…

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Earlier this year, John Saddington launched a Kickstarter campaign to support his latest project – Pressgram.

And let me just say – I’m a huge fan (and backer).

What started as a personal side project for John has turned into a full-time job thanks to the Kickstarter support.

The FREE iOS app (Android planned to be released later) sets out with a sole purpose of freeing content creators from the often insane terms of service some social networks offer their users.

The app works similar to Instagram but instead of uploading your photos to a server owned and controlled by Facebook, users upload their photos to their own WordPress powered site (hosted or self-hosted).

Think about that – a super easy way to get the features you love in apps like Instagram (filters, social aspect, etc) but you get to own the content and bring traffic to your own sites – not someone else’s.

What better way for a business to drive traffic to their site than with an app that posts images directly to their site and then shares a link to it on Twitter or Facebook? No more sending customers to someone else’s site and hoping they click back to yours.

I can’t wait!

Personally, I’ve been trying to share most of my content here on my blog again – like the good ole’ days – and while the WordPress iOS app does a decent job of posting content to your WordPress blogs, the media manager/uploader leaves me wanting.

I have no doubt Pressgram is going to fill that hole the minute I get my hands on it.

Who knows… it may even be enough to get me to finally hit that delete account button.

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What about you? Are you frustrated by the terms of service companies like Facebook and Flickr offer?

Would you delete your accounts and move everything to a self-hosted solution if the right tool was available?

Weekend photo walk

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This weekend, I enjoyed exploring neighboring Terrell, Texas with my camera and a few folks from around the area.

We took part in a photo walk, organized by Brian Stout, which is essentially a bunch of people with an interest in photography get together to walk around an area and take photos.

There are no set rules and no certain skill sets required — just enjoy the views and snap away with your camera.
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Lessons from the storm

I spent an hour or so last night trying to grab that perfect picture of the approaching storm.

It was quite a site to see the clouds rolling in and the electrical storm happening only a few miles away.

While I didn’t get that “perfect shot” I did get a number of photos I liked a lot.

And I learned a few things along the way as well…
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