Where has all the Google Love gone?

If you're a Google Plus user who likes to create and share content, what do you think is the best thing about sharing on Google Plus?

Back to the future of photography No.1.

What will your next camera body be and what features and specifications would you most like? I bet you’d love full frame, 25 megapixel equivalent and 16-bit depth. How about a top shutter speed of 1/8000 of a second and a flash sync at 1/250th?

G+ vs Facebook vs Twitter. The numbers don't help.

Robert Scoble wrote a piece today in response to an article by Richard McManus of Read Write Web.

Back to the future of photography No. 0.

For me, the months of 1996 were marked not by the calendar, but in issues of Better Photography Magazine. I turned 28 that year and had already been a keen photographer for more than a decade, wielding my Hanimex 110 Tele with its 16mm film from about the age of 17 before graduating to a preloved Ricoh XR10 a year or two later.

An important advantage Flickr has over Google Plus

A couple of days ago a popular G+ mate of mine, Lotus Carroll, put out a call to anyone interested in joining her new Parenting Circle. She has a large and adoring following thanks to her unique take on photographing herself and the flowers and bugs in her garden and, as I type, more than 200 of her fans have eagerly asked to be added to her new Circle.

Google Plus iPhone app - Privacy fail

Google recently released an update for their Google Plus iPhone app and, while there are a couple of worthwhile new features, one or two problems make this update a huge fail.

Why most HDR images are a fail.

In his 1926 novel, Paris Peasant, Louis Aragon was not referring to photography when he wrote "Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness" but had he been it would be one of the great truisms of the medium.

Google Voice now available Down Under

As I logged into my Gmail account a few minutes ago I was presented with a delightful popup message informing me I can now make phone calls from within my Gmail account.

Do you take photographs, or make them?

As my own photography matures and as the power of the digital darkroom becomes increasingly more accessible I find myself becoming less satisfied by traditional aspects of photography and more drawn to the artistic possibilities of new media.