In the July Podcast: After a decade I make the switch from iPhone to Android but there is a photo app I'll rather miss. I also discuss the rather interesting website I've been building recently. In the photo links, there is a heavy Magnum photo agency theme starting with Paul Fusco's superb photography from Robert Kennedy's funeral train - the Magnum photographer passing away recently at the age of 90. Also on the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, Sumeja Tulic reflects on Magnum Paolo Pellegrin's work on the subject plus Constantine Mano talks about his photography of his native South Carolina. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

In the June 2020 podcast: Olympus announces they will stop making cameras, the main website goes wide with a slight tweak to the design, photo book news about a potential release for the first book of 2020 and in the links, there is photography and photo discussion by Stuart Franklin, images from the Magnum archive of social unrest in 1968, Shirley Bakers excellent street scene photographs from Manchester and Salford. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

The June bonus podcast takes a look at two fascinating books about the photographer Larry Burrows who was best known for his images of the Vietnam war. The first book is 'Lost over Laos' by Richard Pyle and Horst Faas that explores the mystery of his death in 1971 when his helicopter was shot down. The second book is the equally excellent 'Larry Burrows Vietnam' that contains many of his best images from the war. Both are still available online new/secondhand via Amazon etc. All of the weblinks for the books and digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

In the April/ May podcast - A few coming potential changes for the website are discussed, the landscape of Glencoe is covered in a Testflight blog post and the upcoming release date for a photobook sadly gets moved to the end of year due to COVID-19. Also, a beautiful 95 years old photo gets copied for a client but when do you stop removing the wear and tear of history? In the links, there is Magnum's Eve Arnold's remarkable photos of Malcolm X, the beauty of the Nordic landscapes by photographer Stefan Forster and gritty black and white from Christopher Bobyn of a Scottish ICU ward battling the Coronavirus pandemic. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

In the podcast... So many changes since the last recording and none of them to do with the website! With COVID-19 restrictions in place, its time to have an experiment with my Instagram account with daily photos added from the archive. In the links there are photos from the isolation of the Faeroe Islands, more excellent Dennis Stock photography from the movie set of George Lucas' classic 'American Graffiti' and the 16mm footage from the Apollo 13 mission gets some enhancement using a very clever technique. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

Why do I take Photographs? It seems like a simple question but the answers can be varied and complicated. In this podcast, I try to explain my own reasons for taking photos.

In this busy February podcast: The Islay gallery is launched with photography and video from the trip to the Scottish island in 2019, from the archive makes a return to the Test Strip blog and the podcast page gets a player. In the links, there is a new film about Magnum photographer Abbas, Leonard Freed’s Work on the NYPD, W. Eugene Smith's photographs of Charlie Chaplin during the making of Limelight and Reuters look back on 18 years of images from the war in Afghanistan. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

In the first podcast of 2020 - The first improvement to the PDF photo book and portfolio overview pages are added to the main website. The Scotland galleries get a bit of thought regarding their growing size - just how many images should you add to a gallery? In the links Raymond Depardon’s Paris Dakar Rally, Erich Hartmann’s work documenting the crumbling artefacts and remnants of Europe’s concentration camps, the images of music photographer Jim Marshall and Chechnya: Images of a Forgotten War, haunting images of the war by Thomas Dworzak. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

In the podcast: A personal look back at my photography 2019 and the decade. The Two Towns book gets delayed until the end of next year... but for a very good reason. In the weblinks, Two Dennis Stock photography projects from the sets of a couple of classic movies including the 1968 classic Planet of the Apes. And Robert Capa's excellent photography marking the 75th anniversary of the battle of Bastogne in December 1944. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/

In the October podcast: More social media changes as the Facebook pages finally get deleted after ten years or more with the social media platform. The main website gets a new home page slider after the old one is wrecked before heading to Islay. In the links, photographs of Haiti's cycle team training on the hard roads of the island, Candid moments on the London Underground of the 1970s, Bruce Gilden's photography and a vision of a long-gone New York City and Berlin after the Wall – then and now with photography by Colin McPherson. All of the weblinks for the digital content mentioned in the podcasts can be found on the dedicated podcast links page at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast/