I came across this short documentary on rights of photographers (and yes, videographers) in the UK, and it just caught my full attention. First there was the police officer grabbing the camera and claiming he hadn’t done so. Later on, he tells the man behind the camera to shut up. There are also scenes cut [...]

Over a year ago, this layout appeared in one of the sections of the Manila Bulletin. Nobody was given any credit (or payment) for the two larger photographs on the page. A few months later, the uncredited photographer, Anton Sheker, is featured as the same paper’s Picture Perfect Artist of the Week. He mentions this [...]

I see this tractor most days on my way home. I kept saying that it was begging to be photographed, but I never got around to doing anything about it. A few months ago, I parked my car several yards away (I only had my 85mm) and grabbed this image. After this, I kept saying [...]

I recently ranted about the Caltex Shooting Stars contest, but since Caltex has amended the contest rules and no longer claims ownership over submitted photographs, I’m backing down too. I’m still not endorsing the contest, but I have to concede that they don’t really look that poised to exploit naive photographers anymore. Check out the [...]

I know I may be a couple of days late with this announcement, but I still think you should know that the second chunk of Tibor Radványi’s (a.k.a. PhotoNovice) Project on Blog Statistics is now done and there were 9 submissions (including mine) to the project. I’m not going to list them all here – [...]

UPDATE 2008.05.20: It looks like Caltex has backed up a bit on what rights they have over the submitted entries. I’ve added a few notes below to highlight the changes in the contest rules. I’m still not particularly impressed with the prizes or excited about joining, but I have to at least concede that Caltex [...]

Wedding by kris.hoet: CC-BY-ND Adorama reports that “New York City’s City Council is holding a hearing this morning on a proposed law that would require wedding photographers to be licensed and submit a $5,000 bond.” I don’t live in New York so this doesn’t affect me directly, but the proposal still scares me. If this [...]

We’ve been tinkering with a number of things on the site over the past few days. Some things make it easier for you stay connected to this little site. Others give you, our readers, a face. Some others… well… do other things. This post discusses some of those changes. We want to see your faces! [...]

Take a look at the two images below – the image on the left is clearly the source for the layout on the right, right? Ignore the globe that has replaced the model’s head, as well as the additional “fabric” that replaces her hair – the pose, the guitar, and other details should make it [...]

Last month, I got an invitation to participate in Photonovice‘s project on blog statistics. It involved discussing “shocking, funny, awakening or otherwise special search term or list of terms you noticed in your blog statistics.” Unfortunately, I didn’t find any interesting search terms to share back then. Back then, “cactus pt-04″ and “pt-04 trigger” were [...]