Super Cheap Lighting!

I just ordered one of these Draper 59111 500W Halogen Lamp on Telescopic Stand. I'll be using it in the garage and garden but it will also make a great constant light for photography.

£22 for a 500W light, cripes, I know some places that sell the bulb for nearly that ;-)

I'll post again once it's arrived and I've tried it out.

Quite Possibly The Best Two Days of Photography and Learning Ever

At TFC we're doing a really cool 2 day workshop at Studley castle next month.

I have to admit that I just can't wait. There are so many cool photographers coming it'll be a great chance to catch up with them and introduce some of them to each other.

On the second day there will be a round table discussion which I'm very tempted to record.

If you're interested check out the flyer here or book it here.

Easy File Sharing Finally Comes to MobileMe

Yay!!!!!!
A long time ago, in a keynote speech far, far, away, a feature was shown.
That feature was part of the newly relaunched .Mac service, hitherto known as MobileMe.
A file, sitting on a server (that we now know as 'the cloud') was selected, a button was pressed and an e-mail was sent. That e-mail, it was promised, would let it's recipient download the file, regardless of their OS, technical expertise and even gender.
Limits could even be set on the amount of time the file would be available. For extra security, a password could be set.

This feature never made it to MobileMe. It languished for a while but eventually every trace was removed from Apple.com. It was as if the demonstration had never been given.

But somewhere the feature festered. Hidden in the drawer of a developer, in a minimalist cubicle in Cupertino. It waited, growing stronger by the day, feeding on the energy emmited by a thousand angry Apple discussion forum posts.
Until, one day....
Apple let loose this spawn of usefullness and productivity and e-mailed all it's MobileMe subscribers to announce the birth of an amazing new feature.

So if you have a MobileMe account, go to www.me.com/idisk , select a file, click 'share', choose a friend and hey presto! No more need for yousendit or any of those other weird services.