Kaden wrote a post over at Lost in Focus which helped give me a kick in the behind and force me to start posting again.
The actual post is here.
My response, follows:
I loved this thread… in fact it’s what made me get off my ass and start posting here after a mini break. Both the reminder that we’re halfway through the year and Raul / Kaden’s long list of accomplishments conspired to kick me into gear.
As for me, here were my original goals:
* Shoot more with Medium Format
* Take fewer …

Regular visitors to this blog may already be aware of a photo community site I run called Lost in Focus (www.lostinfocus.org). It’s a site that I started a few years ago to get away from the typical photosharing sites that I had grown frustrated with and has quietly grown to a dozen or so wonderful contributors.
It’s been about a year since I made the last major improvements to that site and this time round I thought it’d be a good idea to solicit ideas from everyone (and not just current …

Lots of chatter online lately about how the UK (my home country) and London in particular, are clamping down on photographers.
On the 8th Dec, The Guardian ran a story about a chuch photographer getting stopped under terrorism powers:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/dec/08/police-search-photographer-terrorism-powers
On the 9th Dec, The Independent wrote about Police searching a photographer using anti-terror laws:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-search-photographer-using-antiterrorism-laws-1836683.html
And at the end of last month, there was a BBC photographer who spoke on UK television about his run in with the law:

I’ve heard reports of friends who still live in London about how photographer is getting harder …

I’ve been asking myself this question for some time… or rather it often takes the form when I’m asking Akuri “why do i bother with all this?”. To put “all this” into context, in 5 years, photography has cost me…

Here’s an entry I posted on my revamped Lost in Focus site earlier today. Thought i’d share it here too. “2008 was great for photography for me in some respects. I had the Contender Asia final, the Contender Season 4…

The photo is from Doisneau – one of the master photographers of the 20th century and easily one of my favourite street photographers. The picture was taken in 1950 and has been an iconic image for years. The woman in…