Margaret Bourke-White

                                     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Bourke-White

Life

 
                       http://www.life.com/gallery/67131/the-75-best-life-photos#index/0

Gotthard Schuh

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-15744339

http://www.google.ie/search?q=Gotthard+Schuh&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=wNW&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvnsu&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=HI7FTrW9B4-LhQfG9OCFDg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1440&bih=738&sei=IY7FTuquLNOKhQem5_HzDQ

Henri Cartier-Bresson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson

India from space on a Diwali night.....

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali

Magnum Photos

A link to Magnum Photos....

http://www.magnumphotos.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_Photos

Take A View

Today's Sunday Times Magazine has some good shots taken from the entries to the Landscape Photographer of the Year.....

http://www.take-a-view.co.uk/

and the winner is.....

http://www.rfultonphotos.com/photo13216115.html

http://www.rfultonphotos.com/

My Flickr....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/61258242@N07

Susan Sontag

Just received Susan Sontag's On Photography in the post...gonna get stuck in...funnily enough, it's a book with no pictures!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Photography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Sontag

Better Late Than Ever!!!

                                                     Lord Shiva, Elephanta Island, Mumbai

                                                 
                                                     Golden Temple, Amritsar, Punjab

                                        
                                                         Dal Lake, Srinagar, Kashmir

Some shots taken in different locations in India 3 years ago....

I love these photographs but they are by no means perfect... they were taken on a little Sony Cybershot on automatic settings... it it was on this trip I realised that yes, I could take OK shots but I could never really capture the true colours of the place which I found very frustrating...

Since that trip...my cameras have improved, my eye has improved (hopefully) and I have been to several more colourful parts of the world...thousands of photographs later, I've realised that what I am doing takes an awful lot of luck but the more tools you have in your box the better!!!

I am on this course because basically I want to take better photographs, the photographs above are very amateur, with loads wrong with them but they bring back how I was feeling at the time, my mood, the heat in the air, the freedom in what I was doing, everything...this makes them very powerful and this is why I love them...