At New Year Berlin feels like a war zone due to the locals relaxed attitude towards setting fireworks off.

A skate park being built in a disused swimming pool. Berlin

That edit a few posts back doens’t show so here it is again.  May have extra relevance ahead of Christmas. Again – taken in Paris

Took some while to get a grip on things and what should be where, but from now inspirations will mainly be posted on my twitter feed.  I’ve killed all automatic feeds to facebook and the like – you either check it or you don’t.

A Paris market

By cover of darkness on the Clyde.  A test shot for #clydebynight.  ISO a little high due to bobbing up n down in the water.

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A couple of photos from today’s fire in Glasgow:

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People are now desensitised to images of war.  The age of #citizenjournalism is upon us.  While almost everyone has a video camera in their pocket the proliferation of images is diluting the power of what’s their.  Far from benign, it’s up to professional journalists to recast the mould, to come up with new ways to get the story across and to let people know what is going on in the world so that people can make educated decisions  to try and steer the world toward a better future.  This is perhaps where #cinematicjournalism comes in.   We need HD video, three angles and surround sound to know how good or bad it is far more than Hollywood does.  This is the real world, this is real.  I’m sold on it, I might well be there doing it, and you might well be watching it.

*Paris underground

Fontaine du Palmier, Paris –  A triumphal column built to celebrate Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign.  A golden angel used to present war to the French public.  Fitting as an image of war?  I’m sure those who were on the battle ground might have a different take.

Don’t do it. There are way too many photographers. Try to draw or get politically involved in something that matters. And unless you need to make art to stay alive, you shouldn’t be making art.

- Nan Goldin

Discovered on Veronica Vierin’s page

*couple from day at market in Paris