John Beardsworth Blog

From Sunday to next Wednesday at the NEC Birmingham, it's Focus on Imaging 2010. I'll be on Adobe's stand again this year - come up and say hello....

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You know those moments of calm near the end of the movie? You can finally relax. Christine the psychopathic car has been fed into the crusher and is just a harmless cube of scrap metal, or the Balrog is tumbling down into the abyss, and the hobbits are safe. While...

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I'll be posting some of my own thoughts on Aperture 3 soon, maybe tomorrow. But I just noticed David Riecks has some issues with how Apple Aperture 3 writes metadata and I recommend you read his article very carefully indeed: Apple has made some significant changes to how Aperture handles metadata...

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For a few months I've been using Twitter. While some of my tweets there have no aspiration to be anything more than twitter, a kind of instant messaging without people seeing you're there. But others are thoughts that would once have been destined to become blog posts, but expressed on...

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Sometime on Sunday evening, Valentine's Day, my site seems to have been hacked. Some rogue code had been inserted into every single PHP file, even those in the site's darkest corners. With the site being so compromised, there was no alternative to removing everything and then building up again from...

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You may be glad to know I never watch programmes like the X-factor, So you think you can Dance.... Britain's Got Talent. And while I did read that book about Ukrainian tractors, I certainly never watch Ukraine's Got Talent which is where this amazing performance originates. The girl narrates her country's...

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No, Park Lane, central London, just this afternoon. I'd only planned a quick visit to Speakers Corner to snap Billy Bragg's tax protest against the bankers, but either the vagaries of the Islamic calendar or the street closure scheduling gods of Westminster Council had determined that British Shiites could commemorate...

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One year I'm going to have to photograph the Tough Guy Challenge where 5,000 men and women sign a disclaimer saying "It's my own bloody fault for being here". Here the competitors are crawling on their bellies through icy mud beneath barbed wire in Wolverhampton. Also see Mike King....

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You do get quite a sense of Don McCullin from this slideshow. Surely he's the least gung-ho war photographer you can imagine, but since there's also a picture of his Nikon with an AK47 bullet hole, it may simply be luck that explains why he's still around at 75. So...

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Supermarket tells Welsh shoppers to wear clothes and shoesBirmingham parking ticket machine speaks Germanclever AIDS short filmiRant - Adolf and the iPadDriver fined for blowing himself in "nose to tail" traffic...

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