Category Archives: Misc

My first guest post!

I wrote a piece on 3 photo tips for dads – for the fantastic Father Apprentice blog. You can see the post here…and I’ve even negotiated with Chase, the site owner, to let mums read it as well. What can I say – I’m a giver.

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Dad 2.0

I found a great daddy blog – no disrespect to all you mummy bloggers out there but you seem to vastly outnumber us. Father Apprentice is my kind of blog. It describes itself as ‘an online community of new and used dads who want to be great‘ and what dad doesn’t want that? I found...

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Mandarin mothering

There’s a brouhaha going on at the moment about the traditional chinese parenting model. Amy Chua, a professor of Law at Yale Law School (i.e. the woman’s no schmock), has written a book called Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. She brought her 2 daughters up using some of the following techniques: no TV no...

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A line in the sand

Welcome to 2011. It’s time to draw a line in the sand. This has gone far enough. We’ve suffered too long. The backlash against white background photography starts here. Shall we call it the blacklash? Some misguided people still like it, but we know better. We’re tired of seeing this stuff sold up and down...

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Time lapse

The Guardian published this project by Zed Nelson, documenting a family with their newborn son and then on the same day each year. It’s great to see the boy growing and changing into a man – the project is 19 years old now. What a fantastic record for the family – which of courseĀ  is...

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