Just a quick note to wish you all a very merry christmas, have a wonderful break, and snap lots of nice photos.

Charlie -

I feel rude for neglecting this blog so much, furthermore, GoDaddy is so confusing, I don’t know how much longer I will have the domain, must get it moved over to dreamhost!!

So yeah, I got an iPhone 3G back when it came out, but I’m only just giving the wordpress app a go. Thought I would do this as test, also a reminder that I’m still alive, and to let you know something exciting!!

Some of you may remember hen I mentioned a book project I was working on with what is now randomhouse publishing. This book is a guide to photography aimed at ‘generation now’ or, anyone really who wants a fresh start with photography!! I’ll write an article at a later date on it more thoroughly, which will make it clearer!

Hope you’re well,

Charlie -

I’m sorry to inform you that due to my status as an A-level student, I have a lot of exams coming up, and hopefully you will be able to appreciate that I won’t be able to be writing any/much new material for the blog, which is a shame as I just revamped it so, but, bad timing I guess. I’ll leave it at that for now, and my last exam is on June 4th, so I’ll see you around then
Charlie -

Well, there’s a surprise, the world leader in photo sharing has jumped on the video bandwagon. To be honest, it’s not all that surprising, we’ll have a think about why not. In the mean time, this is an embedded Flickr video, the quality is really not bad at all. (YouTube esque, except they now have higher quality).

What’s interesting about this move on Flickr’s behalf is that they obviously want to get people staying with them for every bit of media they want to share. I recently joined the site ‘Vimeo‘, which has a lovely interface, and does HD video, et al.

I think that Flickr wants to make sure that they keep people that could potentially leave, even though this wouldn’t happen since their photography based anyway, but it gives people that may have the odd video to upload, the option to just upload them to Flickr now.

However, the videos are limited to 90s which is a little short, and 150mb, which I think is less of an issue. So, I think these really are meant to be just little snap shots, or ‘elongated photographs’ if you will!

Check it out: Flickr

Charlie -

Hello Everyone.

Well, I know this blog kind of just up and died on you, but, I’m going to attempt a full revitalisation. I’ve got a hosting plan sorted, and I’m moving to a full on wordpress situation. The blog may be a bit of a shambles for a while, but hopefully this will mean that I myself take the blog more seriously and keep it more up to date.

I don’t really know the length of time that this process will take, but it should be exciting enough for me and you, the readers, and that means more tips, reviews, comments et al. We shall see
Hope you’re well,

Charlie -

Hey Reader,

You may notice some changes around here! I got very fed up with default blogger settings and options so decided to go all out and start making my own stuff. Hope you like the new design, I love it personally. Any comments let me know!

I am pretty much done in the respect of overly busy school work, but that won’t mean I’m completely free, I’ve got a separate project which may coincidentally contribute to this, but we’ll see, it shall be interesting, and I’m sure you’ll love it!

Hope you’re well!

Charlie -

Hey Everyone,

I know I haven’t posted in a while, I’ve been amazingly busy, but I have to share a guide that I discovered recently on the art of taking a group photograph.

I feel that particularly with amateur photographers, you will often be taking group photos, and it is a ciritical skill when with friends, and other occasions.

Digital-Photography-School : Group Photos

Hope you’re well,

Charlie -

Hi Everyone,

Well, I can only say sorry for not having posted much recently, I feel guilty that after buying the domain: theapblog.com, my posting has gone drastically down, but, there’s nothing I can do, I’ve been completely downed with work from school, and have had no time to get anything done really,

but,

I did get a spare moment alone the 0ther day with an incredible sunset, that you must see, I love it, so I made a timelapse that you may find interesting, or not, we’ll see…!

And you can view a high quality version at my Stage6 account, HERE.

Anyway, I hope you’re all well, and, normal service shall resume at some point, (just don’t ask when…).

Charlie -

Hey Reader,

Once again I’m apologising for being busy, I will attempt to resume normal service soon, but for now, I’m experimenting with some new themes etc. Let me know what you think of the current theme, I like it, but it’s more important what YOU think!

Furthermore, I’m also considering getting a ‘real’ domain name for the blog, I was contemplating on: ‘theapblog.com’ or ‘apblog.net’ and at the moment, I’m leaning at the .com one…!? What do you think?

Hope you’re all well,

Charlie -