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Grown up childhood

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Not so strange that I like these photographs by Kim Leuenberger. After all I have photographed my own toys many times during the years. But never like this.

“I do it for the fun, mostly, because I love travelling, plunging into another world and playing creatively with my camera. I think the style of the cars I choose reminds us of a beautiful past and have a positive nostalgic feel to them.

“I’m not trying to make believe these cars are real, I’m just trying to make people smile, enjoy another type of voyage and open their mind to adventure.”

I agree, and promise to show my own images soon. This article was also found on BBC.com. There are more great photographs in the article. YES, photography is serious business, but also great fun.

http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-34191506

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I can´t imagine

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-what life would be without photography and photographs. Showing good or bad, beauty or ugliness. It is for joy and for the more important things in life. Well, joy is one of them.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34090145

Another visit to BBC. Thank you Jurek for showing me first.

Mario Macilau spoke to Outlook on the BBC World Service. You can listen to the programme on iPlayer or get the Outlook podcast. Production by William Kremer.

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Every picture tells a story

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Today the well known German magazine Bild is without pictures. To show the importance of images. Brush up your German and read. It is interesting stuff. This direct from Bild. Erst wenn man die Bilder nicht sehe, begreife man ihre Magie…

http://www.bild.de/news/inland/bild-aktionen/bild-ohne-bilder-reaktionen-42493280.bild.html

Here in English from The Guardian.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/08/bild-photos-aylan-kurdi-complaints

A picture tells more than a thousand words. OK, not always, but sometimes it does. And how would media work without it? it helps put the finger on difficult matters. Still many magazines sack photographers thinking that the cameras are doing the job these days. But you have to have a brain and eyes too! That is not built into the electronics.

So today, no pictures. You get the picture?

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Work in progress

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To all of you out there, followers, visitors, readers and more, THANK YOU! You are my inspiration. I was recommended by a friend to start blogging. I didn´t know really what it was and I only had a vague idea. Until you try you no nothing, so I tried. It is something I really enjoy, and the contact with you inspire me. I read more articles about photography and photographers and I see what you do. As much as possible I try to visit your blogs to see what you are up to. What really strikes me is all that positive energy you have. Sharing all your tips and ideas for a better day, life. If we just could collect it and spread it over the world everything would be better.

As with everything else, it starts with ourselves. Let´s spread the word and the positive energy, and let´s hope it is infectious.

Some weeks ago Rechito wrote “You make the normal look beautiful!” Thank you!!! I am still feeding on that.

And now for some more images. This is work in progress. Hope to produce an exhibition in a not to far away future.

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Shirley Baker, photographer

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This is another article on BBC about a great photographer, unknown to me. Shirley Baker. Read the article and learn more about her and her beautiful, and important, images. In my opinion BBC use great photography by great photographers and they also tell us stories about known and unknown photographers. There are so many out there, male and female, doing ( or did ) a great job. This timestopping device, the camera, is very special in the right hands with the right eye.

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150821-broke-down-britain-shirley-bakers-striking-shots

“She described the streets, to me, as like her second home,” says Anna Douglas, curator of Women, Children and Loitering Men and a friend of Baker’s. “She knew she wasn’t of these people, but yet she felt phenomenally at ease with them. This is not the kind of imagery you would get from a press photographer, because Shirley spent years there. She wasn’t in a rush, and they weren’t in a rush.”

Baker’s photography is the result of years of investment in and engagement with her subjects – some of whom were so familiar with her presence, they seem not to see her at all.

😊  Pelle

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Illusion

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This is a picture of a picture from Huseby Slott ( castle ) from earlier this summer. Where the different images start, or end, is not really clear. But, why should it be? Go there if you are around. You will find more info through the link, however only in swedish. But I am sure that you get the picture.

http://www.husebybruk.se/slottet/

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vintage photo mystery

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Amazingly beautiful images, but who made them? I hope we will find out. Read the full story with the link to BBC below.

A US photographer has launched an internet hunt to find two mysterious women pictured on an old roll of film she discovered in a second-hand shop.

Meagan Abell was sifting through a box of vintage photographs in Richmond, Virginia when she found four sets of “transparency slides”.

She took them home to scan them and was “shocked” at the level of detail.

“I thought ‘holy wow they are beautiful’. I’d love to find the women or the photographer who took them.”

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33729714?post_id=10206726417661549_10206882589725753

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The impact of photography.

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I saw this on the BBC News App and thought you should see it:
Ten steps to improve your photography
Lecturer Grant Scott offers advice on how to use your interests to produce better pictures.

” Every decision you make in your life from what you wear, what you eat, how you vote, how you decorate your home, where you visit, what you listen to, what you watch and what you believe are influenced by professional photography and professional photographers. They don’t just shoot weddings.”

Ten steps to improve your photography
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-33674327

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A different view

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More from BBC. IR images can make a great difference. See for yourself. A way of creating a different view. The photographers name is Terry Gold. And her photographes shine!

http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-33622821

See more on her homepage:   http://www.terrigoldworldimagery.com/

😊  Pelle

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Where to draw the line?

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Another interesting article about photography, from BBC. About the line not to cross in photojournalism. I have spent several days with colleagues at the Visa pour l’Image Perpignan, France. An international press photo festival. The discussions are very interesting. They as photo journalists have totally different standards for their jobs. Me, on the other hand, being a food and commercial photographer, I am most often expected to do images “better”. We have the same tools but different standards to follow. Stories about staged photos makes you think. We should all do that. Sometimes it is OK, but sometimes absolutely NOT. History will tell…

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150708-altered-images-is-this-real-or-faked

Please read and think. Of course this is a problem when it comes to photo contests.

😊  Pelle