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There are two external photography blogs and a website-based mini photo blog currently active online, The longest-running is the Richard Flint Photography blog which has a big archive of posts dating back to 2007. The Darker Skies blog started in 2009 and has a more personal feel. The final photography blog is the website’s mini blog called The Test Strip which can be found HERE.

The Photography Blog Archive

The Richard Flint Photography blog started in February 2007 as a website for new images, website and podcast links, reviews, and articles, covering a broad range of photographers and photography.

The blog contains news, reviews, website and podcast links, photographer profiles, etc. While the photography blog may cover a wide variety of photographic topics, its main focus is on the processes of image-making. From Wet Plate Collodion to the most recent digital multimedia, the blog’s focus is on the image itself and not the equipment used to get it.

Visit the Richard Flint photography blog at https://www.richflintphoto.blogspot.co.uk

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The Darker Skies Photography Blog

A second photo blog called Darker Skies was launched in August 2009 and is a more personal, informal blog. Darker Skies was originally established to cover those darker, dramatic styles of colour and monochrome photography that I love so much.

However, the site has gradually taken on a role of its own as a photo scrapbook, mobile blogging platform, and photography blog. The photography podcast also has its main links page, containing details about how to access content mentioned in the podcasts, based on the site.

The Darker Skies site can be found at https://darkerskies.wordpress.com

This page displays four of the most recent posts from both of the blogs mentioned above.

Richard Flint Photography Blog Recent Posts

  • The Nightwatchman’s Story
    by Richard Flint Photography
    The Nightwatchman’s Story, March 1915. Photograph by Frank HurleyThere are some photographs that just stand out from the masses of images available online. The images by the Australian photographer Frank Hurley do just that.The Guardian's excellent gallery of newly digitised images from Ernest Shackleton’s 1915 Endurance expedition really are a superb example of old photography being digitally scanned to reveal new detail.There can be no doubt that Frank Hurley was a very talented photographer, although he regarded himself as primarily an artist rather than simply a recorder of events. He would go on to produce some powerful composite images during World War […]
  • A Dogs Tale
    by Richard Flint Photography
     Image by the RSPCAAfter my last post, three or so weeks ago, talking about the increasingly blurring lines between what we regard as real or AI fake photographs, another image made an appearance in the news that was questioned over its authenticity. The above image of these beautiful dogs is, sadly, real.It was taken by an RSPCA officer, during a dog rescue of 250 poodle-cross dogs crammed in a living room. The image does have a good ending as most of the dogs have been rehomed, with a few with the Dog's Trust needing some extra looking after, but the image initially did […]
  • The Authenticity War
    by Richard Flint Photography
     This headline, along with the powerful image, got my attention last week. I guess it was meant to. It turned out that the schoolgirl graveyard image was real, although a number of sources incorrectly said it was not. Is it real or AI? has become an increasingly frequent question when viewing an image. I just fear that the lines blend too much so we start not knowing which is fake and which is real!AI arrived and it seems the development pace of the technology has ramped up  a notch or three. The skill level and equipment requirements to create a […]
  • Martin Parr 1952 – 2025
    by Richard Flint Photography
    New Brighton, England, 1983–85 From The Last Resort © Martin Parr / Magnum PhotosThe news of the death of Martin Parr brought back some of my memories of photography discussions had a college and university back in the 1990s. No other photographer seemed to polarise a group of student photographers more than Martin Parr. As the years have gone by it seems that controversial aspect of his work has remained part of his photography's story, even though my own thoughts about Parr's work, especially The Last Resort, have mellowed.No photographer has, probably, captured an era as well as Parr. The Last Resort images have […]
  • The Whisky Line
    by Richard Flint Photography
     Class 108 DMU leaving Keith Town station, Moray, ScotlandThe trip to Scotland in September ended up being a mixed bag of experiences. No fault of Scotland's, it turned out that I would end up in the second week gradually feeling worse and worse as a rather nasty dose of flu took hold. The steady stream of photographs I'd usually take suddenly reduced to a trickle.One highlight early on in week one, however, was a trip on the Keith and Dufftown Railway, also known as  the Whisky Line, a heritage railway in Scotland, running for 11 miles (18 km) from Keith Town, Keith to […]
  • Salgado's Legacy
    by Richard Flint Photography
    Kuwait oil fields, 1991, by Sebastião Salgado. Photograph: Sebastião SalgadoSebastião Salgado died last week at the age of 81. Another photography hero gone. His photography was the very high quality benchmark that I have never managed to quite attain but always strived for. Salgado's superb blend of beautiful photography and getting to the heart of the subject matter place him right at the top of documentary photographers. He had critics with the term “aesthete of misery" used against him, and his departure from Magnum in 1994 seemed to cause some animosity too. Often it seemed to be a reaction against his […]
  • Formula One at 75
    by Richard Flint Photography
    If you are a Formula One fan then the BBC and Getty Images have put together a great collection of Formula One photography going through 75 years of the sport.From Juan Manuel Fangio through to Lewis Hamilton, the page is a great introduction to the history of Formula One as well as a fascinating read for any F1 fan.Check out F1 at 75 by visiting the link belowhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/extra/v7yykmbyey/f1-at-75-by-bbc-sport-and-getty-images
  • The Gathering Clouds
    by Richard Flint Photography
    A dark sky over Old Boat Sheds – Lindisfarne, NorthumberlandLast week I got a message to say that my Tumblr blog had reached the grand old age of thirteen years old. I have to admit the number seemed slightly surreal as I looked at it. Then again, this blog will be even older soon with the blog becoming eighteen years old at the end of February. All of my blogs have benefited from relatively calm and save foundations to build on by the blogging platforms. As we've seen recently though, change might come down the line at any time from […]

Darker Skies Photography Blog Recent Posts

  • Forever Summer
    by Richard Flint
    The first signs of summer arrived for the UK bank holiday. A hot day which reminded me of an image I’d come across during a spring clean of the main website a couple of weeks ago. The photograph was taken on one of those summer days that seem to stay in the memory. The kind … Continue reading Forever Summer
  • Distant People
    by Richard Flint
    Wedding photography – Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, 2015 Walking the dogs on a beach near North Berwick, Scotland, 2019 Tourists visiting the Commando Memorial, Spean Bridge, Highlands, Scotland, 2015
  • Post Number Seven
    by Richard Flint
    Post number seven. It’s bee a fun week of posting some of my images from the visit up Moray, Scotland at the end of last year. It’s also great to be using a blog that I’ve had for a long time now. Darker Skies started in 2009 around the same time that I signed up … Continue reading Post Number Seven
  • Over the Hills and far away
    by Richard Flint
    It’s been a birthday week for me. Some more sand through the egg timer as my Mum would have said. Each year seems to go faster and faster. Each birthday starts to take on a new meaning when you realise that some of the images in your photo archive are now reaching the age that … Continue reading Over the Hills and far away
  • Passing the Flag
    by Richard Flint
    Tourists walk along the path at the Culloden battlefield site, The flag is one of many that marks where the government forces were placed on the field. A set of blue flags at the other end of the field marked where the Jacobite forces were located.
  • Crossing the Landscape
    by Richard Flint
    A farmer crossing a field to access another field – Near Archiestown, Moray, Scotland
  • Lossiemouth Luna
    by Richard Flint
    I haven’t posted a Luna pic for quite some time. Here she is watching the world go by on a sand dune at Lossiemouth, Scotland.
  • Touring the Battlefield
    by Richard Flint
    Simply the Best? My favourite or best image seems to be a popular theme with the photography blogs. I enjoy seeing what photographers pick and it seems to fall into two categories. An image from early in their career or a recent photograph. I’m not going to be too ambitious and I’ll go with a … Continue reading Touring the Battlefield
  • Big Sky
    by Richard Flint
    Back Again It’s been a while since I posted. Time flying by and a dose of ill health didn’t help, but time to post a few images from last year’s Scotland trip. Sadly the visit was curtailed slightly by catching flu which always ruins any exploring for photographs. No visit to Inverness, or Fort George, … Continue reading Big Sky
  • The Peace of the Coast
    by Richard Flint
    The recent ‘Southerly Point’ Photo zine release featured black and white images from the Mull of Galloway, but the original idea was for a colour project. I am glad that I went down the monochrome route for the book, however, I do like these colour images a lot too. There is nothing like the peace … Continue reading The Peace of the Coast