New adobe plugins

Adobe have released an amazing new plugin for your facebook photos. The gap between professional photographers and amateurs continues to close.

updated portfolio

I’ve updated my portfolio. Some new fashion shots as well as a new section on racing.  Here’s a teaser and a little tribute to one of my heroines, Annie…

Credit to Jenn Doohan for the awesome retouching work on this image.

Jules Mattsson on the receiving end of Police ignorance

The following transcript is of a series of UK police officers attempting to prevent perfectly legal photography by using an amazing degree of ignorance about UK law. In the course of the conversation a series of officers attempt to stop him photographing (perfectly legally) by accusing him of breaching the terrorism act, public order act, various misc copyright and child protection laws and accuising him of otherwise being an “Agitator”. Full credit to the photographer, he kept his cool pretty well, particularly after having his camera seized and aparrently being pushed down a flight of stairs.

more here.

Tour de France 2010 – time trial images

The time trial in bordeaux (stage 19) was a magical setting for a time-trial; beautiful architecture and cobbled streets, just to make it interesting. As usual, click through for the ful set.

London Cycle Hire Scheme – images

london cycle hire scheme

Images available for download at bicycleimages.com

G20 riots – Toronto

some superb photography and intense action coming out of Toronto this weekend.

road bike trix

sweet. if you’ve had too much coffee and can’t watch the whole thing, skip to 4:16….

please stop

the cyclist was lucky. She escaped with multiple compound fractures.

London Cycle Hire scheme – photo shoot

watch this space!

understanding stock image rights

If you’re a picture buyer or publisher of images in any way, have a website or a blog, or are a photographer, take a quick at look at http://www.stockphotorights.com/ for a quick and easy explanation of the different types of image rights, copyright, and your legal position as well as a great guide how to managethe legal minefield. It’s a joint project being run by PACA (Picture Archive Council of America) and BAPLA (British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies)as well as some involvement from one or two of the largest photo libraries.

that explains more clearly than I ever could, how stock image rights work.

http://www.stockphotorights.com/