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I’ve been really busy with the redevelopment of two of my sites and am in the process of writing my marketing plan for 2009. A big project concludes this week and then it’s on to finishing the websites. Been on the road a lot of late, the above is the parcel shelf view of the new SatNav system for the car. It’s a Garmin Nuvi 765T, I highly recommend the Garmin if you’re shopping for an in-car GPS.
I always like to see images shot back home in Zimbabwe and I was idly paging through PDN when I recognised Victoria Falls in the shot below (© Desre Pickers). I know exactly how it was done and the exact location but credit where it’s due, it’s well staged and a great image.
In other news, the Right Guard campaign I shot and produced for DDB London in conjunction with Yahoo! and BMG Records won gold at last week’s DMA awards. Congratulations and big props to Dan, Andy and Guy. I’ll post some of shots I did for The Guillemots as part of that campaign as well. Funny thing, I’ve actually become a fan of their music having heard them for the first time at the shoot.
I also found out that Agency Republic’s Mercedes A-S site (I shot a number of still life images for it) has won yet more awards and is to be featured in a masterclass book published by Taschen entitled ‘Guidelines for Online Success’.
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I went along to the private view of the London College of Communication’s 2008 MA in Fine Art Photography tonight. Too tired to venture opinions on the work but a good standard and some interesting subject matter. Take a look at an extract on the website: http://www.map2008.co.uk/
It runs from Wednesday 26 November-Friday 28 November, 10.00am-5.00pm and continues to Saturday 29 November, 10.00am-4.00pm.
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Spiegel Online produced a really interesting gallery entitled ‘The World of Trench Warfare in Color’ featuring the work of Hans Hildenbrand, a German photographer commissioned by the Kaiser to document the war.
One of the things that struck me was that they are among a very limited number of photographs I’ve ever seen of the ‘great war’. Much of our visual memory of the first world war is informed by the stark aesthetic of black and white, we’re almost conditioned to expect imagery of the period to be monochromatic. I’m glad I found these.
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It’s been a busy past week or so hence the paucity of posts. The inclement weather has dulled my senses but salvation is always at hand with a bit of Paul Simon.
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