London is always been a melting pot of people coming from different parts of the world. And surely there are some photobloggers as well who arrive in this city. For example Randy Murrow from fstoptheworld, who only arrived last January from the US.

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This week’s LPB Focus photo is “Cars” from Hershell Hershey.

Earlier this month Boston.com launched a new site, The Big Picture, where the name says it all.  Each entry tells a story through high-quality and lovely large images. I often get frustrated and small images in news stories so this is refreshing. Some of the photos are exceptional and when they are at such a large size you can really appreciate them.

I hope other news sites take the hint and offer something similar in the future. I know some sites have started to enlarge there images, but I think they can still take it further. A long, even powerful, article about Sudan may not get many readers, but I’m not sure how many people can not take the time to look at these photos and feel something.

I am simply loving this Flickr set: Childhood Fears. Some really fantastic lighting going on. Personally,  my favourite (and the one that scares me the most) is the clown.  I watched IT as a kid and was terrified. I wouldn’t walk near sewer grates for months, but clowns are pretty scary even without the claws and murderous tendencies, right?

Just a reminder that there is a meet up this Sunday (15 June) at Emarites Emirates Stadium (Arsenal) in North London. More details to come.

The plan is to meet up at 12:30 and walk around for a few hours taking photos for maybe 3 hours or so and then either break up or go out for some refreshments.

If you have any suggestions or questions, post them below and Eric will get back to you. He’d appreciate it if you’d let him know if you’re going to join him on any particular Sunday at least a few days ahead of time by dropping me an email: alldaybreakfast at mac dot com so he have some idea of what to expect. Also let him know your mobile number and he’ll send you his in a return email.

Message from Pete:

Short notice I know, but Ive got Flugtag tickets for tomorrow (Saturday 7th) that I cant use.

Anyone wants them, post your email as a comment and I’ll send you the redemption email.

As you can see June is pretty filled with meetups, but I’m sure some of you will find time to visit a few of these exhibitions. Has anyone already been to the big exhibition in the Tate Modern? Read the rest of this entry »

(Note: I’m (Lorissa) a tad late in posting this so this is more a month of Sundays in June, minus this last weekend.)

Hi everyone,

Lor contacted me about possibly leading another photoblogger meetup like the ones I did awhile back. If you weren’t around then, I’m Eric and I’ve been working on a project for the past 4 years of walking all of London reachable by Tube. I’ve got about 4000+ images at my site organised by the section of london. If you want to see the kind of work I do its here: http://www.curiouslyincongruous.net.

Anyway, I suggested the following project to her and to you if you’re interested. It covers 4 meetups in June, one each Sunday. I’m calling it a Month of Sundays.

The idea is to that each Sunday in June anyone interested would join me in a photo-walk around the area of a major football stadium in London and spend a bunch of hours photographing within the sphere of influence of that one stadium, not just the stadium proper but what ever seems to be interesting within their area of influence (loosely interpreted).

I’ve chosen the following stadiums (Stadia?) because I have found their surroundings particularly interesting:

White Hart Lane (Tottenham Hotspur) in North East London (8 June)
Emarites Stadium (Arsenal) in North London (15 June)
Wembley and the industrial area behind it (22 June)
Boleyn Stadium (West Ham United) in East London (30 June)

Each Sunday we’d meet up at 12:30 at a meeting point which I’ll post closer to the meetup day (probably the closest tube station). We’d then walk around for a few hours taking photos for maybe 3 or hours or so and then either break up or go out for some refreshments.

If you have any suggestions or questions, post them below and I’ll get back to you. I’d appreciate it if you’d let me know if you’re going to join me on any particular Sunday at least a few days ahead of time by dropping me an email: alldaybreakfast at mac dot com so I have some idea of what to expect. Also let me know your mobile number and I’ll send you mine in a return email.

Look forward to seeing you on one of these walks.

Eric

Really short notice I know…and even shorter notice, I won’t have this shoot confirmed until first thing in the morning!

But if it happens, I might need an assistant tomorrow in London. The assistant should know a little bit about using and setting up studio lights.

You would need to be in Berners Street, London at 12.00pm.  It would be around 4 hours work, setting up two studio lights, adjusting the power on the lights, moving lights, packing up lights etc.

I have a budget of £100 for you.

Let me know if anyone might be interested.

Cheers.

Andy

Last year’s Europe Photobloggers meetup in Berlin was great fun, and it was then announced that this year the meetup is going to be held in Barcelona. The Barcelona Photobloggers group seems really well organized, and so I’m pretty sure that this is going to be another great event.

The Europe Photobloggers Meetup 2008 will be held from 5 to 7 September, and for more information and discussion you can head over to the EPB website.