In 2009 I took a fair few pho­tos, some­thing like 3,000 of them accord­ing to my Light­room lib­rary (and that doesn’t include the 4 or 5 roles of film I have sit­ting on my turntable yet to be developed). Most of those pho­tos (around 2,500 I’d say) were shit, and they will never see the light of day. A few of them — des­pite vari­ous prob­lems — were still rather inter­est­ing. It turns out that when the major­ity of your shots are taken with a manual focus lens from the late ’70’s you’re going to get a lot of out of focus, over/under-exposed, or just com­pletely missed shots

So I present to you my dud pho­tos of 2009, a little white-balance here and some levels there, but they’re pretty much as they came straight out of the camera:

Con­tinue read­ing: Dud Pho­tos of 2009

Glas­gow in pan­or­ama.

Dieter Rams objects on Flickr.

Pho­tos of the Hyena men.

Pho­tos from Bell Labs in the late ’60’s.

The Vice Magazine Photo Issue 2009.

Below we have a small example of some of the things that we got up to in Lon­don. Note the vari­ous pho­tos of food, because after 11 hours in the bus all you want to do is sleep and eat and the first wasn’t going to be avail­able to us until after another 13 hour bus ride home 12 hours later.

Con­tinue read­ing: A Photo Jour­ney To Lon­don And Back

Pho­tos from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Series of pho­tos on the Aral Sea death.

The true stor­ies behind 5 fam­ous WTF images.