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I'm back...
1 min read
...With a new radical style of images.
Got really into glitch art recently, really enjoying it, the results are amazing, I'm focusing most of my energy onto those at the minute.
I've decided to return to this website anyway. It's common sense that the more websites I'm active on, the more advice and constructive criticism etc. that I'll get for my work hopefully.
This isn't going to be the main site I'll be active on, I won't lie, that will be my Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/michaelb…) but still, feel free to chat or comment on my images and hopefully I'll stick around here
Got really into glitch art recently, really enjoying it, the results are amazing, I'm focusing most of my energy onto those at the minute.
I've decided to return to this website anyway. It's common sense that the more websites I'm active on, the more advice and constructive criticism etc. that I'll get for my work hopefully.
This isn't going to be the main site I'll be active on, I won't lie, that will be my Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/michaelb…) but still, feel free to chat or comment on my images and hopefully I'll stick around here
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I\'m Back!
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Hello everybody, I'm back.
I realise I have greatly neglected DeviantART for the past few months but after visiting a few times the past week, I've realised just how great a community it is and how much more interest people take in your images than on other websites I've been using in my hiatus.
So, I'm going to post most of the images I have taken in my dA break - some of which I believe to be the best images I have taken so far - and hope that the dA community I am coming back to will post their honest opinions on my work, as I'm missing the fact I can get somebody else's opinions on my work.
Obviously, due to the pretty large amount of images I have to upload and current personal commitments, it may take me a while to get back and updated, but please do keep a ;look out at my page and new images and feel free to comment and favourite them if you deem them worthy
Hoping this will be a permanent return and that the community spirit I remember will still be as it was when I last visited.
I'm looking forward to your opinions of my images.
Thank you
I realise I have greatly neglected DeviantART for the past few months but after visiting a few times the past week, I've realised just how great a community it is and how much more interest people take in your images than on other websites I've been using in my hiatus.
So, I'm going to post most of the images I have taken in my dA break - some of which I believe to be the best images I have taken so far - and hope that the dA community I am coming back to will post their honest opinions on my work, as I'm missing the fact I can get somebody else's opinions on my work.
Obviously, due to the pretty large amount of images I have to upload and current personal commitments, it may take me a while to get back and updated, but please do keep a ;look out at my page and new images and feel free to comment and favourite them if you deem them worthy
Hoping this will be a permanent return and that the community spirit I remember will still be as it was when I last visited.
I'm looking forward to your opinions of my images.
Thank you
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Gig photo opportunity and other stuff
2 min read
I haven't posted here for a while. Have I even done one after Christmas? If not, hope you all had a good Christmas 
Anyway, I got an e-mail from the photography department today about voluntary photographic work at the local ‘fake fest’ in a village outside my town.
I can’t decide whether I should ask for the details.
Considering I’m wanting to do photography as an occupation, it’d be a pretty great experience but I’ve never ever done gig photography. I’ve always fancied it though. During the two support bands at the recent Feeder gig I went to, whenever I got bored I watched the photographers in the photo-pit and planned any photos that I’d have taken had a been in there and thought that some would have made fairly unique and interesting images. I’m just scared that I’d apply, get the chance to do it and then mess up all my photos.
In other news, I recently entered my image 'Rebuild and Suppress' operationdropkick.deviantart.c… into a photography competition with the theme of 'Energy' run by London-based photographic printing shop and gallery ThePrintSpace.
Now, don't get excited, I didn't win. I did however get one of 15 commended entries!
I don't know exactly how many entries there were but to be one of the 15 second-best images out of the whole contest is a pretty massive achievement and I'm so happy.
Here's a link: www.theprintspace.co.uk/blog/e…
Plus, I don't know who the judges were but one of the judges of the new competition is Gemma Fletcher, the Art Director of Getty Images. If she was a judge in the 'Energy' contest, that's pretty fantastic! Getty Images are very, very well-known.
Anyway, that's really the only art-based interesting things that have happened in my life recently.
Hopefully I'll have something else to post soon as I'm upset by my lack of journals.
And if you read all of this, thank you
Anyway, I got an e-mail from the photography department today about voluntary photographic work at the local ‘fake fest’ in a village outside my town.
I can’t decide whether I should ask for the details.
Considering I’m wanting to do photography as an occupation, it’d be a pretty great experience but I’ve never ever done gig photography. I’ve always fancied it though. During the two support bands at the recent Feeder gig I went to, whenever I got bored I watched the photographers in the photo-pit and planned any photos that I’d have taken had a been in there and thought that some would have made fairly unique and interesting images. I’m just scared that I’d apply, get the chance to do it and then mess up all my photos.
In other news, I recently entered my image 'Rebuild and Suppress' operationdropkick.deviantart.c… into a photography competition with the theme of 'Energy' run by London-based photographic printing shop and gallery ThePrintSpace.
Now, don't get excited, I didn't win. I did however get one of 15 commended entries!
I don't know exactly how many entries there were but to be one of the 15 second-best images out of the whole contest is a pretty massive achievement and I'm so happy.
Here's a link: www.theprintspace.co.uk/blog/e…
Plus, I don't know who the judges were but one of the judges of the new competition is Gemma Fletcher, the Art Director of Getty Images. If she was a judge in the 'Energy' contest, that's pretty fantastic! Getty Images are very, very well-known.
Anyway, that's really the only art-based interesting things that have happened in my life recently.
Hopefully I'll have something else to post soon as I'm upset by my lack of journals.
And if you read all of this, thank you
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Can I please ask a favour? :)
2 min read
Haven't posted a journal for a while, I never have time anymore. I would really like to start posting them more but I never really have anything to talk about in them and I never get around to writing it when I do.
Anyway, I'm posting this one because I'd like to ask anybody who reads this a favour. I recently entered a competition on Nikon UK's Facebook page. The 100 images with the most likes will go through to a panel of judges and if I won I could win lots of cool Nikon things and stuff
Anyway, the link is here: apps.facebook.com/nikon-whoare…
You will have to have a Facebook account to vote and you will also have to 'Allow' the application aswell (It won't do anything with your account, it just shows what friends have entered an image) and then please press the yellow 'Like' button next to my image
It will be much appreciated.
ANd, if you ahve a Facebook account, feel free to add me at www.facebook.com/OperationDrop…
Hopefully I'll post a new journal sometime soon.
Anyway, I'm posting this one because I'd like to ask anybody who reads this a favour. I recently entered a competition on Nikon UK's Facebook page. The 100 images with the most likes will go through to a panel of judges and if I won I could win lots of cool Nikon things and stuff
Anyway, the link is here: apps.facebook.com/nikon-whoare…
You will have to have a Facebook account to vote and you will also have to 'Allow' the application aswell (It won't do anything with your account, it just shows what friends have entered an image) and then please press the yellow 'Like' button next to my image
It will be much appreciated.
ANd, if you ahve a Facebook account, feel free to add me at www.facebook.com/OperationDrop…
Hopefully I'll post a new journal sometime soon.
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A Blast from the Past
3 min read
Hello anybody who reads this, long time no speak 
I today decided to tidy my bedroom up and got delving into one of my "memory drawers". This particular "memory drawer" housed all my previous rolls of film - no digital, probably only early days of digital at the time - I took when I was just a little boy when I didn't give a care in the world about photography. Shocking is the only word for it. I feel sorry for my mum who had to buy the film and then take it to get developed. Complete waste of money. Or was it?After looking through more Bonusprint packs of photos I stumbled upon the pack from when I went to Paris on a secondary school trip in Year 8 (I'd have been 12/13) and was quite shocked by a couple of the images for a different reason. Several shots of the Eiffel Tower are actually fairly good. They're fairly arty and actually look quite attractive. I must have actually thought the images out before taking them, meaning I didn't just get into photography around age 16 like I thought, I must have actually been interested in it since 12 or 13 years old and not known it. However, the pack also has alot of rubbish similar to the first pack too.
It's been quite interesting having a little look through my old photos though, however, I'm pretty glad I've improved too.
Anyway, back to the present day. I have a question for anybody who is still reading this entry as far down as this, after that wall of text. What do you people think of my new photography direction: Street Photography?
At the end of my first year of college, we had to have a think about what we'd quite like to do in Photography A2 and after seeing some great images from Elliot Erwitt and Joel Meyerowitz, I decided on street photography to base my second year on.
That is why I've been uploading an awful lot of street photography images recently and they seem to be less popular than my other images.
So now is your chance to tell me what you think of them.
Do you like my new direction, if you can call it that, did you prefer my older more nature-orientated images or do you actually quite like both?
That's it from me for now, and probably the next couple of months again. Thanks massively if you're still reading this now. Happy devianting.
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