Bettr, an applic­a­tion that is all about mak­ing Flickr look bet­ter, hit 2.0 the other week. But not sat­is­fied with the changes that came with it — the intro­duc­tion of the menu, allow­ing the viewer to go back to the homepage, to the user’s pho­tos on Flickr, or to select from their sets — we decided to keep going and make it even bettr.

At the cur­rent ver­sion of 2.2.3 you can now enjoy the abil­ity to view videos as well as photographs!

If you have been using the Bettr book­mark­let (added in ver­sion 1.4) then that’s been updated too. So adjust your book­marks accord­ingly to enjoy improved user­name func­tion­al­ity — you too can now view the flickr streams of people with user­names includ­ing punc­tu­ation, uni­code, smi­leys and other goofy shit.

Bettr aims to make using Flickr to view pho­to­graphs, videos, and everything else you can find on it much easier and much, much nicer to look at.

We hope you enjoy it.

I recently decided to digit­ally archive my folders of neg­at­ives. The prob­lem is that I have neither a film scan­ner nor the money to buy said film scan­ner. I was going to have to come up with another way:

Con­tinue read­ing: DIY Film Scanning

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