Wonderful

The argument in favour of using government PR photos is that it's sometimes impossible to grant access to photojournalists, but the coverage is important. If the image is then cropped so that all context is lost in use, then that argument is lost.

Front page of The Guardian newspaper with a photograph of Keir Starmer stepping through a bulkhead, used uncropped at a ratio of 3:2.

Front page of The Times newspaper with a photograph of Keir Starmer stepping through a bulkhead, vertically cropped.at approx 9:21

Croptastic comparison, this use of a PR handout photograph from No10 on the front pages of today's Guardian and Times.

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Thank you :)

Reuters are no longer a trustworthy news source.

It feels like it'll become a pathway for disgraced personalities to launder their reputations.

Is this the same Gilead accused of witholding a safer, more effective HIV treatment for over a decade in order to extend patent profit? www.bmj.com/content/385/...

They get around that by saying the RF comms protocol is proprietary. Anyone reverse engineering it is threatened with legal action. Very bad for Canon users. I've been looking for a way out and would avoid if I weren't already invested.

They have locked 3rd party lens makers out of the RF mount. This limits lens choice and makes the Canon system MUCH more expensive than, say, the Sony system.

Canon photographers: don't forget to set your cameras back to a time when you could use whatever lens you bloody well wanted.

Idea for a TV show: the first 20 seconds of Gardeners' World but for 50 minutes. Monty talking to Ned, pottering around Longmeadow with the barrow, cutaways of chaffinches±bees @bbc @bbcenterprises @montydonn @nedthedog

Glad you liked it :P

Very kind.

The pliers are calling.

Yeh. Prob cost a grand and a month, knowing Canon these days.

This is why professionals carry two cameras.

Photograph of a Canon EOS r5 with a broken shutter.

Oh FFS :(

They don't even know how to use "alleged" correctly. I doubt they read much of anything.

A cowardly, bigoted Manchester school used AI to ban a "List of alleged books with inappropriate content" from its library. They destroyed their librarian's career. The list at the end of this article is just tragic.

Tommytown.

The sun sets behind Holyhead

Absolute stunner of a day.

I never knew that. It really pushes the (already) heavy contrast he got from his lights and film. And, just, what a face to work with. It's one I've come back to, often.

Did you get me my cheese whiz boy?

Jean Sibelius 1949 © Yousuf Karsh

By Yousuf Karsh. It's one of my favourite portraits karsh.org/photographs/...

Bring back the nine bob note!

130 tickets booked for tomorrow evening's photojournalism talk in Manchester. Book now at the link here.

Did he photoshop it and blame the intern?

Incoming.

Wouldn't be surprised if there is/are a recount/recounts on this one.