Photo TED

Three different talks on Ted

• Frans Lanting's lyrical nature photos

• David Griffin on how photography connects us

• Jonathan Klein: Photos that changed the world

while you’re there you might want to explore.

Practice with the Daily Shoot

Practice makes perfect someone once said.

One of the tricks to improving at photography is to practice capturing images that convey something that someone else set the brief for.

The daily shoot does just that. Follow @dailyshoot on twitter; you’ll get a new brief | assignment | challenge each day, take a picture and then post a link.

The humble effort above is for assignment 77, wherever there’s an edge, and is a partial reflection of Simon Patterson’s The Great Bear.

Thank you James and Mike for executing on such a great idea.

Sure, of course I can do an album cover

I’m glad it was chucking it down with rain this morning. Instead of the bike or bus I drove and had NPR/KUOW for company. Marcie Sillman interviewed Jini Dellaccio: musician, graphic designer and photographer.

Proof that news doesn’t, nor shouldn’t, be angst-inducing or depressing. Feeling good & inspired and it’s only just gone 7…

Inspiration: Trains of Japan

Faisal Sultan has some great pictures of the trains of Japan.

The colours are great; but I prefer them in monochrome.

Inspiration: Monochrome Wildlife

Kalyan Varma shoots the wildlife and landscape of the Masai Mara in monochrome (with a Nikon D700):

“when I landed in Africa and saw the grasslands stretching as far as the eyes could see up to the horizon, it totally changed my perspective. For a change, one could think about the light, the composition, the perspective, the sky, the background, the position to shoot wildlife […] I realised the only way to do that was in Black and Whites. The monotones let me focus purely on the aesthetics in their simplest form”

http://kalyanvarma.net/essays/mara/

Thanks Ram for the tip.