Lens Production.

Ever wondered how that lens was made? Well then take a look at this YouTube video and understand why they cost so much. Thanks to Philip Chudy on the AOP list for pointing it out.


Shorpy Photo Archive

Another website, or blog to be precise, that I really like is Shorpy. It is as they say 'a vintage photography blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago.' Take a tour through it. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Blog Feed.

Those who have visited PushPixels before will already know that I have a sidebar with a small list of blogs that I follow. With two or three exceptions they are photography related.
But I've never known if any of my visitors ever go there and click through to any of them. So in an effort to push you that way I thought I'd start an irregular summery of the past week's content in some of them.
This was all prompted bescause Conscientious covered Joel Sternfeld's new landscape book Oxbow Archive (pictured). Also mentioned is Adam Bartos on his Yard Sale photographs, Lisa Wiseman who was selected for 'PDN's 30 for 2009' and who has a great page on the iPhone as the New Polaroid, there's a pointer to an article in Frieze on the Art World in the Credit Crunch and another to the work of Finnish photographer Ismo Holtto. And there's also reference to a building collapse in Cologne where there's a subway tunnel being built by the very same people building out tram line here in Edinburgh. Which explains a lot.

Glyn Davies at Musings from the Anglesey Photo Artist tells of his interview for a Welsh Language Arts tv programme, individual prints selling and news of a print sale with lots of great photography including this shot.

Mrs Deane has a review of the work of Prix HSBC pour la Photographie winner Matthieu Guafso, muses on change, moving on and ruins and a piece on 2 found postcards one of which has very sinister overtones. Or does it?

Meanwhile LensCulture has a review of Look Me in the Eyes:Russian Photographic Portraits happening in Paris, the World Press Photo 2009 awards and a story on how the residents of a Kenyan slum are mounting photographs on their roofs big enough for Google Earth to see. And this site has a vast archive of photography to view and buy too.
And The Strobist has.... well tutorials and kit stories and .... well go there if you're after a How To? or 2.
And what of the non photographic blogs? Well my friends at Bohemia Life have kids clothes from Phister and Philine (which is a slightly odd name to choose if I may say so), The Little Experience Craft kits for Kids and lots and lots more for body and home including my nudes. Tom Morton at Beetcroft moans about ITV's Red Riding. I agreed with some of what he says about set design but I've sympathy with the designers who can't find all the necessary 60's tat as its all been chucked save for the really high end stuff. And that wasn't required in that film was it? But I thoroughly enjoyed the episode with the exception of the sound quality. Or is it my tv set? Or even my hearing? And finally my friend Mike Coulter at DigitalAgency relates a story on crap iPhone customer service from O2. How much longer will Apple allow this monopoly to exist? Great device. Pity about O2's grasp of our nuts.

Ahoy there! New Website!

ALL or At Long Last I've finished my promised re-building of my website. I've expanded it into a simplified format with 4 "Books" and "Info" and "T&Cs" pages. And rather than talk too much about it here I'd like you to go visit it HERE.

Hope you like it (and do please report any errors).

MARCH

March is here and it's time for some DIY. Also look out for my updated website later in the week.