As I didn't talk about the February Assignment winners last month, here goes with a two month installment, including some of the winners' back-stories and my own brief comments about the winning images. In third place was Mark Carline with "Crossing over the River...
This week I take you on a brief tour the first half of our Hokkaido Photography Tour and Workshop from 2010. I'm also very happy to announce that I just posted full details of the 2011 Workshops on our Workshops page. And yes, that's workshops, in the plural, because...
After a false start with problems in firmware 2.0.3 that caused the camera to fail to record any audio at all, today, Canon followed up with firmware 2.0.4 that adds manual audio controls to the 5D Mark II. Here's my 5D2 with the controls displayed. I still don't see...
I've teamed up with professional Australian nature photographer David Burren to host a photography expedition to South Georgia and Antarctica from November 8th to 26th this year. Today it gives me great pleasure to welcome David to the Martin Bailey Photography...
Today we take a look at the results of the January MBP/WebSpy Photography Assignment, on the theme of Square Crop. The Square Crop assignment was much more difficult than I had imagined it would be to come up with something compelling, but many of you rose to the...
Let's get right into it now though, and take a look at the third place winner's image. In third place is David Peacham, from Perth, Australia, with "Lights Out". As I have back-stories from each artist, I'm going to read the back-story first, and then add my own...
Today it gives me great pleasure to announce the winners of the first MBP/WebSpy Photography Assignment accumulated vote winners for the last six month's assignments. As you know, when our sponsors WebSpy came on board in July 2009, they kindly set by $1,000 for...
WebSpy, sponsors of the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast, have once again kindly set aside funds for us to offer prizes for the next six month's accumulated votes from each of our monthly assignments. The first assignment, for December 2009 is already in progress, so...
Some time ago I saw a Luminous Landscape Video Journal interview with Lenswork's Brooks Jensen, in which he showed some work in a card folio, and I immediately fell in love with the look of these folios. I thought it was such a unique and practical way to package...
Before we take a look at the winning images, I wanted to note that since we upped the pace when we shifted to a monthly assignment, more and more I'm announcing the theme of the new assignments in the forum, and once announced, like earlier this month, I sometimes...
Because I announced the winners via the Photography Forum last week, we actually are able to include a little behind the scenes type information on the images, as Landon and Marcus, two of the winners, shared their back-stories in the follow up thread on the forum....
This is Episode 200!! Yeeeey, wooh! It’s been almost 4 years now since I started the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast and today marks the 200th episode. I almost can’t believe it. Bear with me as I revel in this for a few minutes, but I want to talk just a little...