Hiroshi Yokoyama – A Wonderful Photographer and Friend
When I signed up for my first winter Photography Tour with Yoshiaki Kobayashi (小林 義明) to join him in Eastern Hokkaido in February 2004, there were two things that I was not aware of. The first is that it would change my life. I instantly fell in love with Eastern Hokkaido, especially in the winter, [...]
Podcast 273 : The Nature of Japan Exhibition in Retrospect
As you’ve heard in recent months, as I kept you up to date on my preparation, I had my first solo exhibition called “The Nature of Japan” at the H.A.C. Gallery in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo, from December 23rd to the 30th. The show went incredibly well in many respects, and not so well in others. To [...]
Podcast 262 : Preparing for a Gallery Exhibition
In working on preparation for my first solo exhibition in December, I found myself doing a few things that I thought you might find useful, so I’m going to share these ideas today, and I’ll tell you a little more about the exhibition venue etc. at the end of this episode, in case you are [...]
Podcast 261 : Going Pro Update #1 and Misc Updates
Just to recap if you are just joining us, or are catching up for the first time in a few weeks, at the end of August I tendered my resignation for the day-job that I’ve been working in for the last ten years, and I will be dedicating all of my time to photography related [...]
Podcast 260 : Aug 2010 – Glass or Water – Assignment Winners
OK, so let’s take a look at the five winning images for the August Assignment, each accompanied by a back-story from the artist. As usual we’ll do this in reverse order, and remember that if you subscribe in iTunes you’ll also be able to see the images in iTunes or on your iPod and they [...]
Podcast 255 : July 2010 – Symmetry – Assignment Winners
Today we’re going to take a look at the five winning images from the July 2010 MBP and WebSpy Photography Assignment. We also have a back-story from each winning photographer, and a surprise placing for my entry, which was kind of cool. It was a great assignment again last month, and the album looks pretty [...]
Podcast 253 : Q&A #12 – What Tripod? What Walk Around Lens?
In this post/podcast episode, I’m going to answer three questions from listener Paul Posey, from Louisville, Kentucky, (which coincidentally is the home of our friends over at Outdoor Photo Gear). Thanks very much for your questions Paul, and it looks like you sent the questions via the MBP Podcast Companion iPhone app, so thanks very [...]
Podcast 252 : June 2010 MBP/WebSpy Photography Assignment Winners
Well, due to my moving apartment, that I mentioned last week, I wasn’t able to get an episode out. Although I had my new office/studio almost set up, and was ready to record last Thursday, I found that the mic stand that I’ve been using for year’s would not attach to my new desk, so [...]
Podcast 250 : 250th Episode! Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes…
![The Pink Flamingo's Stare [C]](http://blog.martinbaileyphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Flamingo_7021-150x150.jpg "The Pink Flamingo's Stare [C]")
In the past, I did anniversary episodes that looked back at the last year, and I summarized some of the highlights from that year, but the number 250 seems to warrant a different approach. I’m not sure what it is about the number 250 though. Maybe it’s because it’s a quarter of a thousand. Maybe [...]
Podcast 248 : May 2010 MBP/WebSpy Photography Assignment Winners
Before we start, note that the May assignment marked the end of the six month batch of assignments which our sponsors WebSpy kindly provided prizes for. All of the prizes are now sent out, and the new prizes for the next six months batch of assignments have been announced. Topping the list is a new [...]
Podcast 247 : The Anatomy of a Flowerscape
In Episode #244 of this Podcast, I talked about a couple of recent trips to a local park here in Tokyo, where I’d one week found myself a little bit dry on the creative front, and then the following week, forced myself to go back to face my demons and reacquaint myself with my creative [...]
Podcast 199 : June ’09 Assignment – Everything in Focus – Results
Just a quick post to accompany the 199th Podcast in which we take a look at the three images that received the most votes from their peers in the June 2009 photography assignment, on the theme of Everything in Focus. This was an interesting assignment again, following on from the Nothing in Focus assignment in [...]
Podcast 195 : May ’09 Assignment – Nothing in Focus – Results
Today we take a look at the winners of the May Assignment with the theme “Nothing in Focus”, and congratulate the winner of the first Accumulated vote Grand Prize of 2009. Use this audio player if you’d prefer to listen: Unfortunately, before recording this episode, I didn’t notice that the third and second place had [...]
Jon Sheer’s Eternal Japan Exhibition
On Saturday the 6th of June, I had the pleasure of attending a party to mark the opening of Tokyo based photographer, Jon Sheer’s exhibition, Eternal Japan. Today I released an Interview with Jon on my Podcast.
