John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻
@johnbeardsworth.bsky.social
Taking photos, writing about photos, brewing strong beer, making perfect tortelloni, knowing everything (yeah?) about Lightroom and Photoshop, following United, drinking Vimto, missing Thorntons
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The Trump Administration Looks Even Worse Up Close
Photographs by Chris Anderson for Vanity Fair reveal the cost of remaking yourself in Trump’s image. hyperallergic.com/the-trump-ad...
Photographs by Chris Anderson for Vanity Fair reveal the cost of remaking yourself in Trump’s image. hyperallergic.com/the-trump-ad...
The Trump Administration Looks Even Worse Up Close
Photographs by Chris Anderson for Vanity Fair reveal the cost of remaking yourself in Trump’s image.
hyperallergic.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The Trump Administration Looks Even Worse Up Close
Photographs by Chris Anderson for Vanity Fair reveal the cost of remaking yourself in Trump’s image. hyperallergic.com/the-trump-ad...
Photographs by Chris Anderson for Vanity Fair reveal the cost of remaking yourself in Trump’s image. hyperallergic.com/the-trump-ad...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de... Oh, how I remember loving this film (and Colonel Redl). Wouldn't it be perfect BBC4?
‘Collusion does not require a dictatorship’: István Szabó on his Nazi actor masterpiece Mephisto
As his 1981 film is rereleased, the director talks about his Oscar-winning fable about an actor’s Faustian pact with the Nazi party – and its new relevance
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December 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de... Oh, how I remember loving this film (and Colonel Redl). Wouldn't it be perfect BBC4?
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Thank goodness for that. Something that shouldn’t have happened, happened. And now it’s set to unhappen. Great for students, great for research in general and great for Britain.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Thank goodness for that. Something that shouldn’t have happened, happened. And now it’s set to unhappen. Great for students, great for research in general and great for Britain.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
jkost.com/blog/2025/12... A lot going on here, some old tricks, some so new, but demonstrated superbly as ever by Julieanne. If it leaves you wondering why, simply watch - just knowing something's possible will be more valuable than forcing yourself now to learn and remember all the detail.
Julieanne Kost's Blog | Compositing in Photoshop — New and Traditional Techniques
In the video below, you’ll learn how to create a surreal composite as Julieanne walks through both new and traditional Photoshop techniques. You’ll see how to quickly set up your canvas, bring in phot...
jkost.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
jkost.com/blog/2025/12... A lot going on here, some old tricks, some so new, but demonstrated superbly as ever by Julieanne. If it leaves you wondering why, simply watch - just knowing something's possible will be more valuable than forcing yourself now to learn and remember all the detail.
Oh no, not Martin Parr :( www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Admired British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
Parr said his brightly coloured, closely observed pictures of British life were ‘disguised as entertainment’ but they became hugely popular
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December 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Oh no, not Martin Parr :( www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Photographer Sally Mann on Desert Island Discs www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... "Stop calling me controversial".
Also see www.npr.org/2025/09/24/n...
Also see www.npr.org/2025/09/24/n...
Desert Island Discs - Sally Mann, photographer and writer - BBC Sounds
Sally Mann, photographer and writer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Photographer Sally Mann on Desert Island Discs www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... "Stop calling me controversial".
Also see www.npr.org/2025/09/24/n...
Also see www.npr.org/2025/09/24/n...
At the London Leica gallery, it's the last few days of Joel Meyerowitz's London pics with their EV1 - ends on the 6th.
November 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
At the London Leica gallery, it's the last few days of Joel Meyerowitz's London pics with their EV1 - ends on the 6th.
@rogerprotz.bsky.social Reading your Camra article on Jennings's revival, you mention they originated in Lorton. Well, the old brewery was split into the pink cottages here - Corner, Nutshell and Yan Yak (one oak in Cumbrian, I think). A little local detail to mull over with a Snecklifter!
November 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
@rogerprotz.bsky.social Reading your Camra article on Jennings's revival, you mention they originated in Lorton. Well, the old brewery was split into the pink cottages here - Corner, Nutshell and Yan Yak (one oak in Cumbrian, I think). A little local detail to mull over with a Snecklifter!
In Photoshop beta - using Generative Fill which can now call Google's "Nano Banana" AI model.
All I did was select the pic and type "Make this look like a sunny day and add deep blue skies and fluffy clouds".
The blue isn't great, but after 33 years using Photoshop, I can fix that the old way...
All I did was select the pic and type "Make this look like a sunny day and add deep blue skies and fluffy clouds".
The blue isn't great, but after 33 years using Photoshop, I can fix that the old way...
October 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
In Photoshop beta - using Generative Fill which can now call Google's "Nano Banana" AI model.
All I did was select the pic and type "Make this look like a sunny day and add deep blue skies and fluffy clouds".
The blue isn't great, but after 33 years using Photoshop, I can fix that the old way...
All I did was select the pic and type "Make this look like a sunny day and add deep blue skies and fluffy clouds".
The blue isn't great, but after 33 years using Photoshop, I can fix that the old way...
The origins of Photoshop are rather sweet www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqf6...
Russell Preston Brown, John & Thomas Knoll: Inside the Photoshop Origin Story | Adobe Photoshop
YouTube video by Adobe Photoshop
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September 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The origins of Photoshop are rather sweet www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqf6...
August 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
@bakerpictures.bsky.social Red Rebel Brigade, which is what I think I said
August 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
@bakerpictures.bsky.social Red Rebel Brigade, which is what I think I said
Not wanting to wait till the road's cleared, it's a quick walk to a junction and a different bus. 100m later a Tesla whacks into the side (probably not vice versa).
Walked the rest of the way.
2/2
Walked the rest of the way.
2/2
July 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Not wanting to wait till the road's cleared, it's a quick walk to a junction and a different bus. 100m later a Tesla whacks into the side (probably not vice versa).
Walked the rest of the way.
2/2
Walked the rest of the way.
2/2
So after the taxi hit the Lime bike (or vice versa) this morning....
The bus home is due in a minute, until a car is let through a line of traffic to turn right and there's a big clunk as it collides with a motorcyclist (or vice versa).
1/2
The bus home is due in a minute, until a car is let through a line of traffic to turn right and there's a big clunk as it collides with a motorcyclist (or vice versa).
1/2
July 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
So after the taxi hit the Lime bike (or vice versa) this morning....
The bus home is due in a minute, until a car is let through a line of traffic to turn right and there's a big clunk as it collides with a motorcyclist (or vice versa).
1/2
The bus home is due in a minute, until a car is let through a line of traffic to turn right and there's a big clunk as it collides with a motorcyclist (or vice versa).
1/2
“I wasn’t looking”
Says me, who heard a noise ahead and looked u to see the Lime biker rider falling to the ground.
“You weren’t looking”
Says the Lime bike rider to the taxi driver who’d just turned left.
As does the taxi driver to the Lime bike rider.
Me, I’d happily blame both.
Says me, who heard a noise ahead and looked u to see the Lime biker rider falling to the ground.
“You weren’t looking”
Says the Lime bike rider to the taxi driver who’d just turned left.
As does the taxi driver to the Lime bike rider.
Me, I’d happily blame both.
July 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
“I wasn’t looking”
Says me, who heard a noise ahead and looked u to see the Lime biker rider falling to the ground.
“You weren’t looking”
Says the Lime bike rider to the taxi driver who’d just turned left.
As does the taxi driver to the Lime bike rider.
Me, I’d happily blame both.
Says me, who heard a noise ahead and looked u to see the Lime biker rider falling to the ground.
“You weren’t looking”
Says the Lime bike rider to the taxi driver who’d just turned left.
As does the taxi driver to the Lime bike rider.
Me, I’d happily blame both.
ChatGPT: Make this photo look like a Vorticist painting by CRW Nevinson.
July 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
ChatGPT: Make this photo look like a Vorticist painting by CRW Nevinson.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... A few times on my bus home yesterday, I noticed what must be this train stopped in an odd spot. But aren't folk ingenious?
Watch: Delivery rider throws water to trapped train passengers
A delivery rider came to the aid of trapped train passengers by accurately throwing water bottles.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... A few times on my bus home yesterday, I noticed what must be this train stopped in an odd spot. But aren't folk ingenious?
McCullin, cheerful as ever open.spotify.com/episode/1IPn...
Palmyra: Syria's past, present and future
The Story · Episode
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June 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
McCullin, cheerful as ever open.spotify.com/episode/1IPn...
Hm, Freedom Pass Passion…
May 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Hm, Freedom Pass Passion…
A glass of a good red while leafing through his Amazonia to mark the passing of Salgado.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
May 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A glass of a good red while leafing through his Amazonia to mark the passing of Salgado.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
I was wondering why no Spitfires were in Monday's flypast, but one landed along Farringdon Road over the weekend and was hidden in the Deloittes car park before being wheeled up Ludgate Hill before dawn. ;)
May 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I was wondering why no Spitfires were in Monday's flypast, but one landed along Farringdon Road over the weekend and was hidden in the Deloittes car park before being wheeled up Ludgate Hill before dawn. ;)
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If you know, you know
April 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
If you know, you know
First time I tune into Moose TV (sat at from-Ikea desk on from-Ikea seat) and two not-from_Ikea moose are posing for me www.svtplay.se/video/8PBnMx...
April 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
First time I tune into Moose TV (sat at from-Ikea desk on from-Ikea seat) and two not-from_Ikea moose are posing for me www.svtplay.se/video/8PBnMx...
I was hooked simply by the idea of a soap opera scriptwriter who got paid by the kilo, in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. RIP Mario Vargas Llosa.
April 14, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I was hooked simply by the idea of a soap opera scriptwriter who got paid by the kilo, in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. RIP Mario Vargas Llosa.