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Whitby
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to take a unique picture at the Whitby Goth Festival. No sooner do you set someone up take your shot than a dozen or more photographers appear at your shoulder eagerly snapping away. So, when I saw my chance, I set this up, took my shot and moved on. I hope this one is unique…but I don’t know for sure!
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Master of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (MPAGB) Award
MPAGB One of my ambitions for the last few years has been to achieve the Master Award of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (MPAGB). The definition of this award is “a very high standard of photography, images which, in their opinion (i.e. the judges), would enjoy a considerable level of success in International Exhibitions, including consistent and frequent acceptances….and…must be of an exceptional standard.” Twenty images are required, in my case I entered 20 prints. The jury comprises six international level judges from the Photographic Alliance Judges List. Each judge marks each print from 2 to 5. The system is a voting system, where 4 means “Yes (at required…
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The woes of losing a hard drive…
It could have been worse I suppose. Last Friday one of my external hard drives became corrupted and it was impossible to read files from it or communicate with it. After several abortive attempts to read the data from it, John eventually resorted to the Windows checkdisk utility which was all very well and it did find tens of thousands of images and file fragments but it renamed them all so that they were not easily identifiable. We all know that eventually it’s going to happen! As sure as eggs is eggs a hard drive will eventually fail and it never picks the most convenient time to do it. What…
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