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I took this photo looking at a construction site. I thought it was incredible how unified all the men looked!

You know that feeling when you find R20 in the pocket of a pair of jeans you haven’t worn for months? That’s what I had today, except my feeling was about photographs. I went to the G8 Summit last year in Scotland. I did some freelance work and had a bit of a riot filled protesting holiday, it was grand. I thought that I had developed all the film I used (I like to use film when I have the chance). I was wrong, there were about 5 films left that I hadn’t thought about in over a year. So today I took them in to be developed and below is one of the photos that I took and have edited. More to come

I have recently been viewing alot of my photos through Google’s Picasa. This program is great and adds photo’s to itself by searching your hard drive for the photos. This is all well and good and I love making use of Picasa and have in the past. But for Picasa to read your photos they need to exist somewhere on your hard drive. This is where my concern kicks in. I have many, many photos that span many trips, jobs, times and places in my life. I don’t want to lose any of the photos to a corrupt hard drive, lightning or an external hard drive melt down.

So I was viewing some photos today through Picasa when I noticed the “web albums” option on Picasa. The web album allows you to upload folders of photos to your own personal Picasa page where you can store, view and if you want share your photos with others.

I am personally not interested at the moment in sharing my photos with the world. I am merely looking for a third backup of photos that I really, really don’t want to lose. Very useful tool I think.

When all else fails, play some music.

This photo was taken in an informal settlement in Grahamstown, South Africa on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

This is a photo that i recently recovered off my phone. I had forgotten that I even took it at the time. This is the veiw from the London Eye through my phone. I am pretty impressed with the quality and the fact that my phone can do multiple shots!

There is a huge debate around the value of camera phones and the way in which they will soon be changing the way we photojournalists veiw our profession. But thats another debate that will be told at another time.

My little cousing is pretty famous and he’s barely even 2. He is the wimpy baby in the new wimpy ad on T.V. So i thought that i would photograph him, he loves the camera and hates the attention. Go figure.

My friend and fellow blogger Jason posted about what seemed to be riot in Beirut or Afghanistan of late. Alas this was not the case, the pictures seen were taken in Cape Town. The photos were taken by a Rhodes graduate Millisa bongela and they are great works for someone not trained as photographer.

Here is one of the photos:I would like to congratulate Milli on her sterling work and applaud her courage! Well done, the world needs more journalists and citizens out there willing to take the chance to get the photo.

The Skate Park in London, near the London Eye, was jam packed with youths passing the day by skating. The talent available at the Park was incredible, skating is definately not a past time for these guys.

There were many people expressing themselves in a variety of ways at the protests in Achturarder, Scotland. This man chose the trumpet as his medium.

A photograph from a trip that I took across the Loch Ness is Scotland. What a beautiful place and a serene trip.

I read this book a while ago. It is definately one of the reasons that i took photography so seriously. However naive and idealistic this book made me feel, it still led me in to the area of journalism that I am in now. The book is about four photographs working in South africa in the time of Apartheid. Before power was to change hands in South africa many people expected civil war. Some claim that civil war never happened but these four men illustrated to the world that civil war was close.

Here is one of the pictures that features in the book:

An ANC supporter hacks at an alleged Inkatha Freedom Party supporter who was blamed for taking part in the Boipatong massacre of 1992. Photo by Joao Silva/PictureNET

This is a photograph taken by Joao Silva, a member of the Bang Bang Club.

It is photographs and situations such as this that lead me to question journalism and photojournalism. When does a journalist stop taking photographs and interject. I understand that Silva had no concievable chance of stopping this from happening, but in similar situations, when does one get involved? Just a question, rhetorical mostly, but a thought provoking one I hope.

There are riots in the streets, believe it or not, over a cartoon that was drawn and published about the prophet Muhammad.

Have a look at this Photo Essay
from the streets of Beirut. What a shocking occurence all due to political agendas being pushed under the guise of fighting against a cartoon.

Time Magazine has done well to cover this story in a photographic context.

It is said that over 200 000 people attended the Live 8 concert in London, 2005. The sea of people was incredible to witness. Smiling faces all round while the people in Africa look on disillusioned.