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Hi, my lovelies!

Well, the contracts have been signed, and I’m working my arse off on the photography book I am writing. It’s a tremendous honour and a fantastic challenge to be asked to write a book, but next to my 10-to-12-hour-a-day day-job and spending the rest of the time writing my book, there isn’t a lot of time for other things, including eating, sleeping, communicating with friends, or updating my Photocritic blog.

It’s a damn shame, because I do love this blog (hell, it’s the reason why I was asked to write the book in the first place, so it’s actually invaluable to my status quo), but there just isn’t a lot of time.

My deepest apologies. I expect to start getting a little bit more time as the book starts taking shape. Stay tuned - we’ll soon return to our regular scheduled programming. Oh, and no doubt I’ll be whoring out my book as well - it’s due to hit the book-shops in spring 2007. All I need to do now is to write the damn thing :)

Much love,

Haje Jan Kamps

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You can even send press releases, if you are a company, but if they are crap, prepare to be ridiculed.

Have you got a passion for photography? Do you like to browse about and find quirky things to do with photography? In that case, you’ve got what it takes to be a guest blogger on Photocritic?

Don’t worry too much about your writing (I work as an editor in my day-job, so straightening out copy is second nature to me), it’s far more important that you have passion and an eye for what makes a good story!

The best way to get involved is to drop me an e-mail (hajejan@kamps.org) with some news tips, or even a draft (or fully written-out) story!

Cheers,

Haje Jan Kamps
Editor, Photocritic.org

Most hardcore DIY fans out there will have heard of Make magazine - it’s O’Reilley’s first steps into the magazine publishing world, after many a year of publishing high-quality books.

And now, it’s our turn. One of the project editors over at Make contacted us a while ago about publishing our Macro-lens-built-from-pringles-box article in the magazine. I re-wrote it for magazine publishing, and the result? Well, the mag’s on newsstands May 22nd (the day after my birthday, incidentally!), so pick up a copy, or order an on-line subscription today!

Apart from our article, It’s got tons of other great DIY-based stuff in it, too, of course, with dozens of funky projects.

Do you know of any cool projects out there that could do with some more exposure? Have you written a cool article that you think might fit in on Photocritic? Well, get cracking then! Read the rest of the article »

Whoah, it’s been a long time since Photocritic has been updated. My sincerest apologies, but I’ve been in the process of moving from Liverpool to Bristol (that’s about 200 miles), and I’ve started a new job, over at Future Publishing, so I now work for the same publishing house as the guys who make Digital Camera magazine, Computer Arts and T3! Read the rest of the article »

The last few months have been nothing short of insane - the sheer amount of support and help I’ve received from my readers has been truly heartwarming. Read the rest of the article »

Up until yesterday, Photocritic seemed to have been on every blog and website known to man, including MSNBC, Adobe, Digg, and scores of photography blogs. Yesterday, we captured the holy grail of web-traffic: A posting on Slashdot. Unfortunately, my lovely little server kicked the bucket before the fifth comment on slashdot. Read the rest of the article »