Photographs

Your images will be look on with wonder one day

22 March 2012

Capture today to surprise people tomorrow. Like Ninety-six-year-old Rebecca Lepkoff who’s been taking pictures of one New York neighborhood her entire life you too have images that you’ve been capturing that will one day be looked on in wonder. As you watch this video realise that future generations will see what we’re all creating today [...]

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Sometimes we have the only ‘One’ Left in the world.

23 February 2012

Are you throwing out history? You’ve heard the story, haven’t you…? You know the one. The story of someone going to a garage sale or similar and buying some old painting only to discover it’s a Boldini or whatever that’s eventually sold for €2.1 Million. Do you have something in your life that could be [...]

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What Would a Young Mother Teresa Say

2 July 2011

What would the young and old You say about your life? The younger generations are often shocked to find that You, their older relative, was once young. Even those who were there with you, who were also young with you, may have forgotten what you were like. When you were vibrant, strong and beautiful, when [...]

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Ghosts of the Past are Here

27 June 2011

Use the images of the past and put them in modern context. With nearly a hundred years of popular photography and photojournalism we now have some amazing historical images from the past that we can compare with today. And I’ve recently found this photo manipulation method of explaining how things have changed over the years.

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1000′s of Images but What is Vivian Maier Story?

14 February 2011

Vivian Maier, Street Photographer and Nanny Scratching around amongst people’s cast off junk at an auction house in 2007, John Maloof, a real estate agent in Chicago, discovered the boxes of unloved negatives repossessed from a storage unit. His initial stash of negatives from the life of Vivian Maier, that he paid $400 for, has [...]

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Episode 27 : Little Things for Your Story

7 December 2010

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It’s the little things in your Life Story that we relate to. Think of some great person and their story. Particularly one of those biographies where you know the back story. How they got to greatness or how the fell from grace. Consider those everyday parts of their story that is behind their greatness. Maybe [...]

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A Life Story is about experiences – Nothing else

19 November 2010

Your Life is Experiences. “History is one damn thing after another” – Winston Churchill. The life of everyone is a continuous stream of experiences. Some exciting, some dull and many simply mundane. For the greater community it’s the exciting experiences that capture us. These events take us to new places and show us new ways [...]

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Your Life Story Linked to Your Site on a Personal Card

17 September 2010

Memories of Your Life Story to lead to the Web Address! Have you thought of using of a Life Story card as the way of sharing your Life Story site. Your name, phone number and web address is all that is needed on the contact side of the card and the back can have a [...]

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Episode 15 : Personalised Life Story Web Site

25 August 2010

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It’s easy to share a Life Story on a Personal Web Site Click to share on Twitter With the developing ease of blogging sites it’s now easy to build your own web site, to share with the world a Life Story, in this Episode 15 of Create Your Life Story we’ll look at how simple [...]

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Video and Audio Life Stories Comparisons

30 June 2010

Last night I was at The Hive, a group of local innovative thinkers here in Brisbane where we get together once a month to connect and listen to a guest speaker. After the speaker I was chatting to a few people and mentioned Create Your Life Story and what we are doing here. I spun [...]

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A Picture Needs a Thousand Words

5 June 2010

You’ve heard the saying “A picture says a thousand words”. That however is only when you know about the image within context. This image to the left is a ? (the answer is at the bottom of this post) Without context it could be one of many things. That’s the very reason we have captions [...]