Great ad makes me want to grow a beard and bite the heads of live chickens!
MJW’s new campaign for Valvoline pays tribute to horsepower and its effect on man. With every grunt of the engine, modern man is taken back further to his primal self. Only when he emerges from his high-powered car does he go back to being a regular guy.
I’m not so sure that this will have the same effect on me with our 96bhp diesel Picasso!
via ▶ VALVOLINE – MAN LIKE HORSEPOWER – YouTube.
Never work with children or animals they say, well check out the work and creativity and the animals in this fantastic photography
Katerina Plotnikova did something extremely amazing!
One thing to note here: Animals are real!
see more via Photoshop? NO. These Are Real Animals | fosgrafi.
Philippines-based illustrator Kerby Rosanes proves that doodling can be so much more than scratching unintelligible scribbles on paper. Through his Sketchy Stories blog, Rosanes shares his wonderful world of doodling in a simple Moleskine sketchbook. Equipped with an ordinary Moleskine, a few Uni Pin drawing pens, and his innate gift for drawing, the artist is able to transport viewers to a world where tiny, cartoonish creatures explode with gusto to make up larger entities.
via Spectacular Moleskine Doodles Explode with Energy – My Modern Metropolis.
It’s here. The Pentax 645Z Medium Format camera has arrived just as the rumor sites said it would, and the camera’s release date was far from the only rumor that has proven to be 100% true. In fact, we’ll have to look hard to find anything they got wrong.
via Pentax’s New Medium Format 645Z Packs a 51MP CMOS Sensor and Max ISO 204,800.
I recently produced a new hardback portfolio book for Allinson’s Photography using “Blurb” it was so easy to use the quality of the book was very good for just £24. You can flick through the pages of the book below, share the book and visit Blurb to make your own book.
Hasselblad has begun shipping its pioneering H5D-50c, the worlds first fully integrated medium format camera system to use CMOS sensor technology.The new H5D-50c was first announced in mid-January and the camera enjoyed a fleeting debut at the CP+ Camera and Photo Imaging Show, Japan, three weeks later – but is now fully available worldwide.
read more via Hasselblad H5D-50c CMOS camera.
A Toast Army made from 1,000 identical toast soldiers has been unveiled at London’s Royal Artillery Museum. The world-first has been created by charity egg brand Eggs For Soldiers to mark March Fourth – it’s annual fundraising event in support of Help for Heroes.
via Army of 1,000 toast soldiers created by Eggs For Soliders | Creative Boom Magazine.
Awareness & Prevention Through Art AptART is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to give vulnerable children an artistic experience with an opportunity to express themselves as well as an outlet to build awareness and promote prevention about the issues that affect their lives. All children regardless of their circumstances should be given an opportunity to participate in the arts.AptART holds exhibitions both locally and internationally displaying artwork created by children participating in projects. Proceeds from the exhibitions are returned back to AptART to fund future projects. In this particular case, were looking at AptARTs work in Zaatari, the fifth-largest ‘city’ in Jordan, and the not-so-temporary home of 130,000 Syrian refugees.
read more via A street art project paints a brighter future for Syrian refugee camps | Creative Boom Magazine.
Available from 06 March at a retail price of £5200, the new D4S sports a redesigned 16.2-megapixel FX sensor and the Expeed 4 image processor. It has a burst rate of 11 frames per second at full resolution, and is protected by “a tough weather-sealed full metal body”, Nikon claims.
read more via Nikon unveils the D4S – its ‘ultimate imaging machine’ » British Journal of Photography.
Understand the value of a Professional Photographer
Many new businesses “start up’s” and “SME’s” think professional photography is out of reach and beyond their budget or worse just forget to even consider budgeting for it in their business plan.
If you find yourself about to invest substantially in your new website or brochure but have overlooked the need for a professional photographer, please call Allinson’s Photography for a bespoke professional solution before you find yourself stealing photographs from Google image searches, (yes they will be copyrighted) or asking family and friends if they have a “good camera”!