The first in a series of special podcasts looking at a photography book taken from Richard Flint's bookshelf. The first book in this series is the documentary photography book Northumberland by J C Tordai, published in 1993, and a book that has been a big influence on Richard's photography over the past twenty years. Book links can be found on the podcast link page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

In the podcast: More news about the updates made to the main website including a rather good use of some video footage shot on the Isle of Skye way back in 2014. A photograph taken during the 'Beast from the East' winter storm makes it into Picfair's Top ten images of the week and another photo from the archive is posted onto the Test Strip blog. In the links... Fifty years since the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War - Getty Images talk to the photographer who was there and helped tell the story to the world, colour images of Ireland from the sixties and seventies PLUS Surfing Norway in Sub-Zero Temperatures - 30 images from AFP photographer Olivier Morin. All of the links can be found at www.darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

In the February podcast: Details about recent updates to pages on the main website at richardflintphoto.com plus the old pressgram miniblog gets a new name - as well as the start of a new series of posts starting with a photo taken in Beaumaris, North wales in 2003. In the links there are two from the Guardian website: The photos that changed America: celebrating the work of Lewis Hine and The vanished East End - David Granick’s shots from the 1960s and 70s capture a fading world. All the mentioned links can be found on the podcast link page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast

In this podcast: Goodbye to Audioboom, The Photography News Daily Paper li online newspaper and even the Darker Skies domain name finally fades into the distance. More news on what's going on in the podcast. Also the Richard Flint Photo Instagram account gets a makeover regarding how its used... with encouraging results. No links were mentioned on the podcast but a few can be found at the NEW podcast page address at darkerskies.wordpress.com

In this podcast: After a very tough 2016, the podcast starts up again with details on last year, plans for the future and a couple of juicy photography links. In the links there is Seven photos, seven stories: Chris Killip on capturing the declining industrial towns of England in the '70s and '80s plus Harf Zimmermann captures the day-to-day of an East German neighborhood in the 1980s. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

In this delayed podcast special, recorded back in September 2015, Richard has a wander along the rocky north west coast of Skye discussing the beautiful landscape, observations made during the trip, the two photography bargains, a Nikon camera and bag, picked up during the trip as well as a few other topics as well. The recordings were made between 1st - 11th September.

Returning for 2016 the podcast looks into what's been happening over the last few months, the changes to the podcast and more. In the weblinks section there are portrait images from WW2 of American airmen by Roger Freeman, a look at the great photography by the 2015 World Press Photo winners and Camille Seamen's haunting and beautiful photos of disappearing icebergs. All of the links for the content mentioned (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

In this podcast: After taking a winter break this spring podcast takes a look at the new Richard Flint Photography website that cam online recently. In the links there is tintype portraits from the Sundance film festival, images of New York by Lee Friedlander and an excellent photo-essay on the Navajo plus a few more. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

In this, the last podcast of 2014, Richard updates about the Scotland trip and the photography book project connected to it. In the links we have photography of the all female biker gangs of Marrakesh, atmospheric photography of caves in China, portraits from Nigeria's Nollywood and ;pst photos from the Vietnam War. All of the links (plus some bonus ones) can be found at www.darker-skies.com/podcast

In the Podcast: Richard leaves the studio and travels up to Scotland yet again to stay on the fabulous Isle of Skye. The recording were made at various points of the stay including a rather blowy podgram from the top of the Quiraing... but there is a twist or two to the tale after that! There is news about a rather good timelapse iPhone app from the makers of Instagram and Richard manages to pick up a few photo bargains.

To see some of the photography from the Scotland trip, go through to Richard's Instagram page and check out the recent images @ http://instagram.com/richflintphotography

New images are also been uploaded to the gallery on the main website @ http://www.richardflintphoto.com/portfolio/scotland/