Let's knock Friday right out the park

W. Eugene Smith, New York, 1977 by Arnold Newman.

Group photography is incredibly difficult to get right

Teesside Tories have always tried to dismiss criticism of Houchen’s Teesworks decisions as political smears by Labour.

Here is a cross-party committee of MPs demanding the NAO is sent in.

Everyone knows it stinks.

The oldest known photograph of London - Whitehall from where Trafalgar Square would later be built, taken in 1839 by M. de St. Croix. Charles Dickens was only 27 when this photo was taken.

Enoch Powell in 1978 by by Arnold Newman. His Rivers of Blood speech would be cheered on these days by the Tory benches, who would probably view him as a moderate.
#RwandaBill

Davenant 📸 My favorite

Dorothea Lange, Crossroads General Store, Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939

Davenant 📸 Penn was good at group pics... irvingpenn.org/news/2024/irvi…

If you vote for Susan Hall you are telling the Tories that you forgive them for what they have done to this country over the last 14 years. Austerity, corruption, highest taxes, Brexit, PPE fraud, the lies, the cronies, the honours, Boris Johnson, Partygate the lot.

Group photography is incredibly difficult to get right

The Lusetti Family, Luzzara, Italy in 1953 by Paul Strand. This has to be one of the best group photographs ever taken.

The key to creating an impactful and enduring body of work in photography isn’t equipment it is passion. Choosing a subject you are passionate about will give you the motivation to explore it in depth and that passion will come through in the images you produce and when you pitch

Cross-party business select committee says Gove “must” send National Audit Office into Teesworks to “assure the public taxpayers’ money has been disbursed appropriately and legally”
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Here in Tokyo, the sun came out nicely this morning.

So, had my first outing this year with the infrared converted Nikon D800e.

Quite happy with the results.

black and white photography

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Here’s a clue as to what is going to happen across America if Trump gets re-elected with immunity from prosecution.

Middle East Eye Here’s Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor”
#Gaza #Protesters

Early stroll. The sky has changed its colour scheme again. A pigeon on a streetlight like a statue on a thin plinth. Late April frost scribbled on a car windscreen. A dropped tissue assumes the shape of a duck. A weighty moon hangs over the valley.