﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="rss.xsl"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Fotofill Photography: Latest News &amp; Images</title><link>http://www.fotofill.co.uk</link><description /><item><title>New album "Michelleeb" uploaded!</title><description>Michelleeb is a volunteer model from twitter, in exchange for some home made chocolate mousse she gracefully agreed to have her photos taken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quite probably the beginning of a big twitter photo project.  Anybody making there way from twitter to my website, feel free to DM me if you wish to be involved. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/news/New-album-_Michelleeb_-uploaded_/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>25/04/2012 22:46:50</pubDate></item><item><title>michelleeb 11 - Michelleeb</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-11/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/michelleeb-11/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-11/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>15/04/2012 21:54:25</pubDate></item><item><title>michelleeb 10 - Michelleeb</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-10/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/michelleeb-10/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-10/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>15/04/2012 21:54:08</pubDate></item><item><title>michelleeb 9 - Michelleeb</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-9/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/michelleeb-9/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-9/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>15/04/2012 21:53:48</pubDate></item><item><title>michelleeb 8 - Michelleeb</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-8/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/michelleeb-8/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-8/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>15/04/2012 21:53:27</pubDate></item><item><title>michelleeb 7 - Michelleeb</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-7/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/michelleeb-7/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-7/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>15/04/2012 21:53:08</pubDate></item><item><title>michelleeb 6 - Michelleeb</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-6/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/michelleeb-6/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-6/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>15/04/2012 21:52:45</pubDate></item><item><title>michelleeb 5 - Michelleeb</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-5/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/michelleeb-5/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-5/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>15/04/2012 21:52:26</pubDate></item><item><title>michelleeb 4 - Michelleeb</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-4/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/michelleeb-4/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-4/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>15/04/2012 21:52:01</pubDate></item><item><title>michelleeb 3 - Michelleeb</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-3/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/michelleeb-3/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-3/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>15/04/2012 21:51:41</pubDate></item><item><title>michelleeb 2 - Michelleeb</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-2/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/michelleeb-2/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-2/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>15/04/2012 21:51:22</pubDate></item><item><title>michelleeb 1 - Michelleeb</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-1/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/michelleeb-1/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/michelleeb-1/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>15/04/2012 21:50:59</pubDate></item><item><title>Minehead 1</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Minehead-1/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Minehead-1/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Minehead-1/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>03/04/2012 21:23:35</pubDate></item><item><title>Cloverly 1</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Cloverly-1/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Cloverly-1/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Cloverly-1/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>03/04/2012 21:23:15</pubDate></item><item><title>Clevedon 1</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Clevedon-1/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Clevedon-1/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Clevedon-1/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>03/04/2012 21:22:41</pubDate></item><item><title>Tilstock 2</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Tilstock-2/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Tilstock-2/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Tilstock-2/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>03/04/2012 21:22:14</pubDate></item><item><title>Tilstock 1</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Tilstock-1/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Tilstock-1/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Tilstock-1/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>03/04/2012 21:21:51</pubDate></item><item><title>Burnham-on-Sea 5</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Burnham_on_Sea-5/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Burnham_on_Sea-5/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Burnham_on_Sea-5/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>03/04/2012 21:18:27</pubDate></item><item><title>Burnham-on-Sea 4</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Burnham_on_Sea-4/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Burnham_on_Sea-4/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Burnham_on_Sea-4/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>03/04/2012 21:18:06</pubDate></item><item><title>Burnham-on-Sea 3</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Burnham_on_Sea-3/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Burnham_on_Sea-3/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Burnham_on_Sea-3/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>03/04/2012 21:17:40</pubDate></item><item><title>Burnham-on-Sea 2</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Burnham_on_Sea-2/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Burnham_on_Sea-2/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Burnham_on_Sea-2/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>03/04/2012 21:17:09</pubDate></item><item><title>Burnham-on-Sea 1</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Burnham_on_Sea-1/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Burnham_on_Sea-1/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Burnham_on_Sea-1/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>03/04/2012 21:16:42</pubDate></item><item><title>Trolley on the Beach</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Trolley-on-the-Beach/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Trolley-on-the-Beach/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Trolley-on-the-Beach/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>03/04/2012 21:15:37</pubDate></item><item><title>Blogged!</title><description>For the first time ever, I've been blogged about, by The Print Space, a company I frequently use for printing of my photos.  Find out more here;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.theprintspace.co.uk/blog/phill-holland"&gt;http://www.theprintspace.co.uk/blog/phill-holland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am dead chuffed with the result.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/news/Blogged_/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>20/03/2012 21:33:45</pubDate></item><item><title>People Training</title><description>Imagine the not-to-distance future, a content aware future where google has implemented an algorithm with identifies and catalogues each image it processes, and automatically assigns a collection of keywords appropriate to whatever it finds.  For example if it's a picture of cat playing with a ball, you'll get "cat" and "ball".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The advantage is clear for such a powerful algorithm, you can find any image you want within the clicks of a few keys, any image which has been automatically catalogued by the silver bullet algorithm will be listed neatly in your web browser, in order of relevance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what about those images that it cannot classify so easily, those images which cannot even be described successfully by human eyes, in those circumstances where literally a picture is worth a thousands words, and no words will adequately convey the emotional content of the image.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if you're a photographer you must of experienced such a block when uploading an image to your favourite hosting website, when you're confronted with a flashing prompt demanding the description of the image, what do you write? how do you describe your picture?  If you can describe your picture eloquently with words, would you wonder why you bothered to upload the picture?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the future, your success as a photography could depend on how well you present yourself and your images online and how others find your work, through your website, through social media and possibly most important of all, through a search engine;  We must assume for a moment, that if an such an image recognition algorithm existed that it would only to be able to deal with pictures who's content was definable in exact and quantifiable terms, those which can be described in terms of words.  Those photographers who had those types of images would thrive under such conditions, however those with less defined creative edges would probably suffer to some degree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under such conditions, if would be conceived that such a system would start to generate feedback,  any photographer not generating search engine popularity would be forced to change their style and changing their photographic substances to match the optimal criteria of the image cataloguing algorithm,  the algorithm would start to teach (albeit slowly at first) the photographers how to take the "perfect" photo, the perfect photo that would have the ideal conditions to appear at the top of a given search result.  The algorithm would generate it's own opinion of what the perfect cat with the perfect ball would look like, and how well your new cat with ball image matched that idealism. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about photos of the undefinable, abstract photos, or those photos only defined in terms of the human context, the emotional context?  The potential for such images to be diluted, or completely disappear into obscurity could be grave in such a future, nobody would care, for any image that couldn't be found would be of little value, any image not matching a template would fail, with the potential for it's creator to be reprogrammed &amp; trained into producing different content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This may be a slightly bleak view of things to come, but I believe we'd lose something, more than we'd gain if any such algorithm existed.  At the moment our images and websites allow use to assign keywords in the hopes that those keywords get our images noticed, but those keywords are susceptible to manipulation in ways which cheat the system, if would be advantageous to close the keyword loophole all in an effort to produce "better" search results.  Our computers however cannot determine the value of an image from just it's identifiable content, for that to happen they must think and behave in a manor fit for humanity to consume comfortably.  By the time we teach our computers this trick, we may have already be trained be the preceding systems and intermediate algorithms to not care about the things we may have lost in the process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/news/People-Training/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>20/03/2012 21:32:32</pubDate></item><item><title>Man in Train Station</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Man-in-Train-Station/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Man-in-Train-Station/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;First test shot from the new lens, 24-70mm&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Man-in-Train-Station/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>09/03/2012 15:01:35</pubDate></item><item><title>Industrial Island</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Industrial-Island/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Industrial-Island/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Industrial-Island/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>06/03/2012 22:36:15</pubDate></item><item><title>Cycling at the Beach</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Cycling-at-the-Beach/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Cycling-at-the-Beach/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Cycling-at-the-Beach/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>06/03/2012 22:27:03</pubDate></item><item><title>Lowestoft Beach</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Lowestoft-Beach/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Lowestoft-Beach/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Lowestoft-Beach/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>06/03/2012 22:26:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Sitting Seatime</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Sitting-Seatime/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Sitting-Seatime/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Sitting-Seatime/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>06/03/2012 22:24:48</pubDate></item><item><title>Beach Huts</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Beach-Huts/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Beach-Huts/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Beach-Huts/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>06/03/2012 22:23:57</pubDate></item><item><title>Moment Of</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Moment-Of/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Moment-Of/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Moment-Of/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>06/03/2012 22:23:16</pubDate></item><item><title>Quick Puff</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Quick-Puff/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Quick-Puff/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Quick-Puff/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>06/03/2012 22:22:47</pubDate></item><item><title>Trees at Night</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Trees-at-Night/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Trees-at-Night/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Trees-at-Night/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>11/02/2012 18:10:11</pubDate></item><item><title>The Photographers' Gallery</title><description>The Photographers' Gallery (London) has been closed for well over a year now (since 19th September 2010), for a general overhaul of the premises.  The initial plans for the renovation had to be altered after funds could not be raised to implement them, and a less expensive design was conceived and implemented which was less costly, with a final price tag of £8.9m.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Gallery was due to open late 2011, but now delayed until May 2012, tagged as conceding with the Olympic year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the world of photography continues to change at an increased rate, and it's acceptance within the art world grows, one would began to challenge the relevance of having a specific location dedicated to photography and after a year of closure if the relevance of the Photographers' Gallery has diminished.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the art world, a year is a very long time, and lots of things can change very rapidly, we're beginning to see acceptance amongst the art world of photography as an art form, rather than as a quirky plaything that anybody and everybody can, and does do.  We have seen increasing prominence of photography within the major galleries in London, from the Tate modern Voyeurism exhibition spearheaded by the near newly appointment curator Simon Baker, the Taylor Wessing portrait prize being hosted at the national portrait gallery through to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year at the natural history museum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the temporary closure of the gallery, any natural choice for hosting an exhibition has gone with it too, perhaps forcing potential exhibitions to look elsewhere to display their works, the examples stated above have been very successful in their own right from visitors, one would argue if any of these exhibitions have been hosted at the gallery if they would've been equally successful or if they would only achieved limited success being segregated away as photographic art in a separate purpose built venue, rather just being placed in a more general purpose art venue, next to paintings, sculptures and more traditional art mediums.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would argue that the increasing success of photography being defined as a artist medium is thanks to the progressive thought of many of the bigger galleries not just dedicated to one single form of art, but willing to display photography in the same, un-discriminatory way it would display any other form of art, segregation of photography is perhaps not the best way to promote it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The gallery has been subject to many criticisms over the years, from photographers with a wide variety of opinions, not least is that the gallery is detached from what happens in the "real" world of photography, choosing to exhibit self indulgent projects with little or no content beyond vacuous; to some photographers the gallery simple does not, and never will exist, having no relevance to the work they do - slightly worrying criticisms for an organisation funded by the Arts Council. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the gallery is too succeed when it reopens, it will have to work hard to establish it's relevance not only in the photographic community, but also in the art world as a viable venue &amp; alternative location to bigger art galleries for exhibitions, I would argue after being closed for such a long time it may never regain a foothold when better more wider appealing public art space can be found; after all photography is a medium that is very much owned by the people (ever since the cheap box brownie arrived on the market) having such segregation of photographic art is a contradiction of this solid foundation.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/news/The-Photographers'-Gallery/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>03/02/2012 23:11:36</pubDate></item><item><title>Ethnic Minority Man</title><description>A common cliche amongst today's photographer is the "Ethnic Minority Man", a fairly common photographic subject, sure to turn heads and win competitions.  The setup is simple, ship yourself to some foreign land, preferably with extreme poverty but with excellent year round sunshine;  Jump out of your 4x4 Air Conditioned Land Rover, stick your hiking boots on and keep walking until you hit a suitable village of mud huts and half naked tribal priests (actually, the less clothes the better).  Next find somebody of appropriate old age, a face full of wrinkles and character that suggest a lifetime of hard work, then set your camera atop of your tripod and attempt to steal that persons soul, making sure that before hand you taught them how to say "cheese".  Job Done, time to go home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have several problems with this current trend of photography (or perhaps not so current) but first of all, let's start with the positives, usually Ethnic Minority Man is illustrated with a high level of technical competence, you most often get a very nice portrait, with that person dressed in attire which appears to be suitably appropriate to the lifestyle you'd expect, nothing wrong with a nice portrait, but this is where it all starts to go wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now consider for a moment, you've just flipped through the latest edition of Photo Monthly Weekly Magazine, and you've come across a portrait of Ethnic Minority Man, what does this picture really tell you about that person? Does it build a story?  Does it create an image &amp; a story of that person in your head? Is that image accurate?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My problem is that such a portrait only serves to reenforce several negative stereotypes, not least the defining stereotype that the photographer themselves provided of that person when they took the picture, the photographer intentional went out to find such a picture, and either intentional or accidentally perpetuated the stereotype of what people in the west imagine a person in poverty in the third world would look like, I have found out nothing about what the life of Ethnic Minority Man is really like, I am just looking at yet another stereotypical image.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is most impressive about this situation is that most likely, the photographer thinks they have done a great service is promoting the plight (and probably showing the enduring internal spirit) of Ethnic Minority Man to a greater audience by taking such pictures and by travelling to such "harsh" conditions compared to their normal life, however beneath the surface such photos can only come across as Condescending with a Superiority complex thrown in for good measure, the photograph has conveniently forgotten that this is the normal life of Ethnic Minority Man, who is living in these harsh conditions everyday, by putting his portrait on a plinth for all to admire as a work of art.   The photographer has had an idea about what type of person they want to photograph, decided upon a remote muddy location and went and packed their camera, the very concept of being anything other than condescending was lost from the very start, how could it be anything else? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not saying it's not important to go on such journeys, and bring back photographs from far away places, of far away people, photography of that nature has served an important role in our society and help illustrate a world different to our own, and any plight that might exist in that world.  However to go to such a place, and returning with images that perpetuate a stereotype is an easy and lazy option, a far greater, better thing to do would take photos of people in context, no matter what that context may be, even if that context contradicts what you where hoping to photograph, or your own personal stereotypes.  Ethnic Minority Man has no meaning without context, context is lost within a single, often misleading portrait.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/news/Ethnic-Minority-Man/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>03/02/2012 23:11:11</pubDate></item><item><title>Paul's Rest</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Paul's-Rest/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Paul's-Rest/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Paul's-Rest/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>02/02/2012 15:08:09</pubDate></item><item><title>Last Chance to See</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Last-Chance-to-See/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Last-Chance-to-See/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Last-Chance-to-See/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>02/02/2012 14:55:17</pubDate></item><item><title>Quick Break</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Quick-Break/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Quick-Break/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Quick-Break/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>02/02/2012 14:54:15</pubDate></item><item><title>Curious Balloon</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Curious-Balloon/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Curious-Balloon/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Curious-Balloon/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>02/02/2012 14:53:42</pubDate></item><item><title>Failed</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Failed/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Failed/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Failed/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>02/02/2012 14:52:18</pubDate></item><item><title>Plug in and ship out</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Plug-in-and-ship-out/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Plug-in-and-ship-out/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Plug-in-and-ship-out/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>02/02/2012 14:51:36</pubDate></item><item><title>Your Basic Bog Standard Tree</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Your-Basic-Bog-Standard-Tree/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Your-Basic-Bog-Standard-Tree/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Your-Basic-Bog-Standard-Tree/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>22/01/2012 12:36:59</pubDate></item><item><title>Concrete Shelter</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Concrete-Shelter/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Concrete-Shelter/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Concrete-Shelter/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>22/01/2012 12:36:31</pubDate></item><item><title>Tree And Sun</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Tree-And-Sun/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Tree-And-Sun/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Tree-And-Sun/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>22/01/2012 12:36:09</pubDate></item><item><title>Mandy Warhol</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Mandy-Warhol/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Mandy-Warhol/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;If you ever get stuck for a last minute gift, this Andy Warhol type effect goes down quite well, as used during the work Secret Santa celebrations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many tutorials on the Internet if you search for it.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Mandy-Warhol/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>22/01/2012 12:27:50</pubDate></item><item><title>Keeping Mother</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Keeping-Mother/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Keeping-Mother/" alt="" width="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a target="resource window" href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Keeping-Mother/"&gt;Leave Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="520"&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description><pubDate>22/01/2012 12:15:41</pubDate></item><item><title>Craned Pair</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/modules/images/Craned-Pair/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.fotofill.co.uk/thumbnail/small/Craned-Pair/" alt="" 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