Posts Tagged ‘ camera ’

Top London locations for picture-perfect shots of the city

July 17, 2012
view from Tower Bridge, west and east__by Amy Freeborn

Published on Yahoo! – - Turn the typical tourist shot on its head by taking photographs from, rather than of, London’s iconic buildings, monuments and landmarks.
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Hack a disposable camera to artistic analogue photo heaven

June 12, 2012
Light-leak-example-by-Amy-Freeborn

Published on Yahoo! – - Put down the digital camera and step away from the app. Try an altogether more creative and unique way of achieving artistic photo effects, by hacking a disposable analogue camera.
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Modern-Day Message In A Bottle; Mystery Solved

June 23, 2011
Modern-Day Message In A Bottle; Mystery Solved

On a trip to Santa Cruz, California, in the summer of 2007 a 12-year-old girl from Texas dropped her digital camera off the pier. But where this story really begins is almost four years later and six miles away following two particularly stormy days in March. Peter Govaars and his daughter were beachcombing at...
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So, I Bought A Polaroid

March 4, 2011
So, I Bought A Polaroid

I jumped on a bandwagon recently – by which I mean I bought myself a vintage Polaroid 1000 land camera. It probably hasn’t escaped your notice that Polaroid has undergone something of a renaissance recently. The instant photography company, which formed in 1937, was a worldwide best-seller in its 60s and 70s heyday, but...
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Photographic Terrorism

February 16, 2009
Photographic Terrorism

The British Government has branded anyone with a camera a possible terrorist with a new law introduced this week. The law – marked with a protest by hundreds of photographers outside Scotland Yard – means that anyone taking a photograph that contains a member of the police, military or certain government personnel, will essentially...
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