Currently reading 'The Lost Witch' by Melvin Burgess
QUESTIONS TO YOURSELF Ask yourself these questions applying them to work you’ve already done or to work you are about to do. Or even they could be used on other people, seminars, etc. have I made this work with the attitude of…
I’ve realised that it has been almost a year since I have been out with any camera other than the one on my phone. It has also been a while, almost six months, since I seriously worked on any of my projects….
I’ve been struggling with this for a while, trying to update several blogs and I’ve been finding it a wee bit difficult. I was trying to keep a focus in each blog: photography, adult writing, children’s books, journal, art history, and web…
As some of you may have gathered I work at Waterstones in Darlington and the children’s section is where you will find me most of the time. Part of my job is to welcome and talk to various school groups when they…
I was again starting to plan out an aggressive timetable of blog and social media posts to help me become a ‘successful’ blogger with a ‘successful’ blog. Filling all the metrics of hits, likes and client interactions. These are the things the…
What is the “Essence of the North?” That is what is being asked by The Northerner Blog in the Guardian today. They are asking for contributors to post an image that captures the essence of the North. Whose North? There is always…
Shall we get Facebook ‘friendly squares’ and wear them with pride? Fotografiska, the Swedish photography museum, has self censored images on its Facebook pages to avoid them being deleted by Facebook for contravening its rules Here is one of the major problems…