This is a great way of describing licensing or usage rights for photography. I found it on Lincoln Barbour's website - a fantastic advertising shooter based in the US.
Anyway, back to the point - think of photography in terms of...
Music - you hear a pop song in a commercial, but that company doesn’t own the song.
Software - you buy the software, but that doesn’t mean you own the code.
Blueprints - you may own the building when it’s built, but the architect owns the design.
Sculpture - you can buy art, but you can’t copy and sell it as your own.
Wednesday 29 February 2012
Friday 17 February 2012
ROYAL SUCCESSION
Taking the reigns at one of the world’s most successful modern courses is a daunting prospect. But as Mark Alexander finds out, Alan Hogg seems more than up to the challenge
There can’t be many courses that have had the same impact as Kingsbarns. In the 12 years since it opened, the beautiful links course found on the east coast of Scotland has drawn praise from just about everyone who has played it.
It must be something to do with the roll of the fairways or the undulations in the greens, but you would swear the 18 carefully crafted holes have been there for centuries rather than just a decade. In fact, golf has been played at Kingsbarns since the late 18th century although it wasn’t until the beginning of the 21st century that the course took on the form we know and love today.
Since then Kingsbarns Golf Links has picked up awards like sticky toffee paper (the latest being named the best modern course - built after 1960 - in Great Britain and Ireland by GolfWeek). The layout simply works.
With so much expectation surrounding it, taking charge of Kingsbarns would be an undertaking some would shy away from, but not the club’s new chief executive. In fact, the opportunity to take charge of one of the world’s most admired courses was a dream come true for Alan Hogg. “It was a surreal experience,” he recalls. “It was like all my birthdays and Christmases had come at once, and it still feels that way today.”
Read the full article at http://www.golfmanagementnews.com/gme/
There can’t be many courses that have had the same impact as Kingsbarns. In the 12 years since it opened, the beautiful links course found on the east coast of Scotland has drawn praise from just about everyone who has played it.
It must be something to do with the roll of the fairways or the undulations in the greens, but you would swear the 18 carefully crafted holes have been there for centuries rather than just a decade. In fact, golf has been played at Kingsbarns since the late 18th century although it wasn’t until the beginning of the 21st century that the course took on the form we know and love today.
Since then Kingsbarns Golf Links has picked up awards like sticky toffee paper (the latest being named the best modern course - built after 1960 - in Great Britain and Ireland by GolfWeek). The layout simply works.
With so much expectation surrounding it, taking charge of Kingsbarns would be an undertaking some would shy away from, but not the club’s new chief executive. In fact, the opportunity to take charge of one of the world’s most admired courses was a dream come true for Alan Hogg. “It was a surreal experience,” he recalls. “It was like all my birthdays and Christmases had come at once, and it still feels that way today.”
Read the full article at http://www.golfmanagementnews.com/gme/
Tuesday 7 February 2012
Ode to photography
Inside a photographer’s mind
Photography is my business, and I am very grateful for it. It keeps me out of mischief and puts shoes on my kid’s feet. For me, taking photographs has evolved from a childhood obsession into an all-consuming fixation with light, landscapes and weather. More importantly, it satisfies my creative side which always seems to whirr with possibilities.
It sounds improbable, but I never stop thinking about it. Walking the dog or out on the golf course, I am always considering when would be the best time for a shoot or what impact the weather would have.
I’ve come to accept it now, but for a while I found it unsettling, especially if I stumbled across a scene and found myself cameraless. It wasn’t healthy, in a kind of obsessive way. Now, I take photographs for a living, I have my cameras about me when I need them most.
Photography fascinates me. I love researching a shoot, finding a good location and waiting for the right light. Portraits require different skills, but you get the same buzz when you know you’ve got a good one – and that’s what keeps you coming back for more.
I also love it when good photography transforms a relatively mundane subject into something beautiful, desirable or challenging. It freezes a moment and makes you look.
I could go on, but I fear my fixation for pixilation can only hold a reader for so long and I am well over my limit. I’II let my images do the talking…
Photography is my business, and I am very grateful for it. It keeps me out of mischief and puts shoes on my kid’s feet. For me, taking photographs has evolved from a childhood obsession into an all-consuming fixation with light, landscapes and weather. More importantly, it satisfies my creative side which always seems to whirr with possibilities.
It sounds improbable, but I never stop thinking about it. Walking the dog or out on the golf course, I am always considering when would be the best time for a shoot or what impact the weather would have.
I’ve come to accept it now, but for a while I found it unsettling, especially if I stumbled across a scene and found myself cameraless. It wasn’t healthy, in a kind of obsessive way. Now, I take photographs for a living, I have my cameras about me when I need them most.
Photography fascinates me. I love researching a shoot, finding a good location and waiting for the right light. Portraits require different skills, but you get the same buzz when you know you’ve got a good one – and that’s what keeps you coming back for more.
I also love it when good photography transforms a relatively mundane subject into something beautiful, desirable or challenging. It freezes a moment and makes you look.
I could go on, but I fear my fixation for pixilation can only hold a reader for so long and I am well over my limit. I’II let my images do the talking…
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