Archive for March, 2010

How to make Blurb Bookshow widget work in WordPress

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I was invited to trial the about-to-be launched Blurb BookShow widget – a great little application that allows you to embed a preview of your Blurb book in your blog or website page, thus helping to raise that book’s profile and also in providing the opportunity for up-sell. I cut and pasted the code as [...]


Finding the Light with Manny Librodo

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Whilst I was in Bangkok, I managed to meet up with Manuel J Librodo (Manny), who currently lives here but originally hails from the Philippines. Manny’s unique style of image making and post-processing have given him an amazing brand and reputation – particularly in Asia and the Middle East. His workshops sell out in days, [...]


More panning tips from a day with Mr Panning

Pulling it all together, for a decent Panning shot

I blogged a few weeks back about my attempts to master panning, and of course as part of the 1 on 1 workshop with Gavin Gough that I blogged about yesterday, I took every opportunity to quiz the master – Mr Panning himself – on some more tips! I felt a little indulgent standing for [...]


Bangkok Photo School workshop with Gavin Gough

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During my trip to Bangkok, I added an extra day so that I could meet up with locally based freelance travel photographer, Gavin Gough for a 1 on 1 workshop. Gavin is a freelance travel, stock and assignment photographer, who has also established the Bangkok Photo school – which he co founded with Jackie Rado [...]


Bangkok Redshirts Protest

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The third day of the Red Shirts protests against the Thai government was potentially the day when things would happen. The unrealistic deadline for the government’s resignation had come and gone, and the Red shirts had decided to fan out from their central base at Phan Fa bridge, and take their protests out further into [...]


How fish can help cure jet-lag

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One of the joys of jet-lag – and lets face it they are few and far between – is the opportunity that the ensuing sleepless night provide to explore a new city – a city that is seldom seen or known to even its local residents. I was in Singapore on Friday – afflicted by [...]


Only in Egypt

Waterfalls at Dawn, AL Fayhoum

There are few places in the world where you can walk in the space of 15 minutes from an Oasis, lush pasture, past a waterfall, to a sandy beach, a lake and then within minutes be in a barren and inhospitable desert. Egypt is such a place and a couple of Saturdays ago I replaced my normal [...]