Archive for Meta

King of the Road!

As some of you will have caught via Twitter or Facebook, I've recently left my job as a Senior Producer at Channel Five, and am about to set up on my own, as an editorial consultant. Sounds posh, means very little indeed, beyond the fact that I'll be spending a lot of time writing books, and being a freelance journalist / writer / busybody and MAN OF LEISURE. Before I embark on my new career as the boss of the freshly minted Kamps Consulting Ltd, however, I'm going to ride my rather awesome yellow Kawasaki Versys (FAQ: No, they don't come in yellow. Yes, I painted it myself. No, it's the kind of paint they use to paint lines on the roads with. Yes, I did paint it with paint rollers. Well, if you don't come too closely, it looks quite good) all around northern Europe. I'm setting off in exactly a week (the 10th of June), and will be gone the rest of the month, so there won't be too many tweets or Photocritic updates in June - apart from this page, of course, where you can keep track of my progress!

Read all of King of the Road! (15 comments so far)

Photographers on Twitter Database

Sorry about the twitter-focussed posts as of late; I have been very busy with work (I have to wrap a lot of things up before I'm leaving there to look after Photocritic and being a writer), and I haven't had much time or energy to do a lot of photography writing. On the bright side, after the 'twitter on photography' thing became so popular, I decided to do a bit of PHP/MySQL magic, and I've integrated the list with Twitter itself.

Read all of Photographers on Twitter Database (98 comments so far)

Name your Dream Assignment - Winners!

If you can remember back to mid February, I did a post called If you can dream it, you can do it - which, among other things, called out for entries for the Name Your Dream Assignment competitions. I was one of the judges, and Christ with a jetpack, if people didn't come up with some absolutely awesome ideas...

Read all of Name your Dream Assignment - Winners! (no comments yet)

Photocritic Logo: The Making Of

I've had a lot of great, very nice comments about my new logo, and a few questions - Oliver, who made the logo, kindly agreed to talk about it a little bit. If you don't care much about design or logos, feel free to skip this post :)

Read all of Photocritic Logo: The Making Of (one comment so far)

Photocritic Greatest Hits vol.2

Early last year, I did an article titled 'Photocritic Greatest Hits' - which basically just listed the most popular articles on this site. The reason for repeating it is down to a comment by Sharon on Twitter, who mentioned that she loved Strobist, but hadn't really gone through much of its backlog - which is a shame, really, since the Strobist blog is positively awesome. While I'm no Strobist, I'd like to think that Photocritic also has some articles in its history that are worth visiting - so hereby, a list of 'if you read nothing else, read this' Most commented, most viewed, and most awesome - all for you!

Read all of Photocritic Greatest Hits vol.2 (no comments yet)

Photocritic’s new logo

If you're a regular to the Photocritic site, you'll notice that this page looks a little bit different than usual - well, if you're reading this on the page, that is. If you're reading it in a feed reader, then it'll look perfectly normal, but in that case, just this once, come have a look, because I'd like to show you something I'm a little bit proud of; the new Photocritic logo.

Read all of Photocritic’s new logo (4 comments so far)

Trojan on this website

I just received an e-mail from a reader of this blog, who pointed out that his virus scanner went mental when trying to access this blog, stating that the web page was infected with an Exploit-IFrame.gen.c virus. At first, I thought this was completely ludicrous, and that the good man was completely a) insane, b) computer illiterate and c) on a spamware-infested computer. Upon closer examination, however, it turns out that I was, indeed, the culprit.

Read all of Trojan on this website (13 comments so far)

Photocritic gets a new look

Well, it's been a good long while (November 2006, in fact) since Photocritic went Retro, and I've been considering to make a bit of a change to the site for the past few months. So now, after spending a whole week-end ankle-deep in CSS, PHP and Wordpress (after recently doing a bit of coding on a piece of forum software, it's very good to be back on the Wordpress codebase. I guess it's difficult to appreciate how lovely it is unless you go through the hell that is badly coded software), I proudly present the new-look Photocritic.

Read all of Photocritic gets a new look (8 comments so far)

50 amazing Flickr streams

Beyond the stuff I've been posting in my twitter stream, I haven't really had much time to post proper blog posts here on this blog recently - and my apologies about that. What I have been doing, however, is browsing Flickr to get some amazing inspiration, ideas, and tips for the whats and hows of photography. Throughout the past few weeks, I've been keeping bookmarks of my best finds. I've found a whole load of amazing photographers who have made me smile, filled me with wonder, made me shy with inadequacy, and proud to be part of this whole 'photography' thing. My only shame in all of this is that there are many more than 50 good - nay, great - photographers out there - so I would very much like to encourage you to post a comment with your favourite Flickr streams... So hereby, without further ado or messing about - my top 50 recent finds on Flickr.

Read all of 50 amazing Flickr streams (24 comments so far)

We’re on Twitter + new RSS feed!

Right, this is mostly a service announcement, so if you don't use RSS or Twitter, feel free to ignore this post. Or you could, y'know, start using RSS and Twitter (Check out 'RSS in Plain English and How to use Twitter on VJ). SO... 2 things: Twitter - Photocritic now has a Twitter account; you can see the updates in the side-bar (look for the Twitter-coloured box, you can't miss it really) or follow me @photocritic. Go on, you know it makes sense. If you're really curious, I've got a personal Twitter account too... RSS / Syndication feeds - Turns out that the 30,000-odd RSS subscribers (Yes, really! Amazing stuff - thank you everybody!) are taking their toll on the server, so I've moved the RSS feeds across to Feedburner. I've done some clever redirection malarkey, so if you were already subscribing, you should just simply be redirected to the new feed, and you don't have to do anything. If you'd rather get the feed from feedburner directly, check out feeds.feedburner.com/photocritic

Read all of We’re on Twitter + new RSS feed! (no comments yet)