Have we gone a little far with the digital thing

this is one of the kids shots from NHM

Amusingly, as I write this an ad comes on TV for the new digital screen on a pregnancy test because of some research that states a lot of women read the regular ones wrong.

What I wanted to discuss is my trip to the Natural History Museum on the weekend where the Wildlife Photographer of the Year was on show. Although it was all awesome. I was kind of lost with the use of digital screens.

Automatically I just started to question whether they were in fact real photos or computer generated. I saw some fantastically close shots of animals in the wild. The colours were out of this world. But since everything on screen seems computer generated these days. I have lost my faith in the realism of a real and beautiful photograph. I really want the real photos. Maybe Im not so hightec afterall.

Go and check it out. Small note.... it is scary how awesome the shots from the kids section. Creativity and a eye at such a young age is really cool. Its also cool to see parents spending a lot of money on kit for their kids.

Fantastic Resource

by lynetter

I cant believe I havent brought this up before. Its been sitting in my links for a while. Extremely useful. Lynette who is a bit of a digital goddess has a great archive of fantastic visuals and facts / quotes etc over here. Keep up the great work

Eurovisions - the better one

Whilst I was away on a little trip on the weekend to Belgium. I got to see a great exhibit of my two more recent loves. Eastern Europe and Photography. It was called Eurovisions. It was about a group of international photographers called Magnum, that went to a list of eastern european countries that have been recently included in the EU. A lot of the countries I had been too only about 18 months ago.
It was great to see professsional photographers take on each country. It made me have a think about my own photos and how I might utilise them to depict my own view or story of these very interesting developing nations. Also made me want to got to the ones I missed last time.

If your in Belgium check it out