MichaelWPlant
@michaelwplant.bsky.social
Street, Portrait & Social Documentary photographer interested in the social landscape of contemporary capitalism.
I am having issues setting up my @handle so it works with my michaelwplant.com domain name for my BlueSky account, so I will have to keep trying till it works.
Projects: Social Documentary Photography - Michael Wayne Plant Photographer
Social Documentary photography Social Documentary photography is something that Michael Wayne Plant studied at Goldsmiths College as part of his MA in Photography and Urban Cultures. He also acquired ...
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January 9, 2026 at 4:10 PM
I am having issues setting up my @handle so it works with my michaelwplant.com domain name for my BlueSky account, so I will have to keep trying till it works.
I was recently taking Desmond around London. And I got lucky with this image. The light was just right, the angle was perfect and the bird cooperated with me adding a moment to a famous landmark image, featuring the statues of Lloyd George and Winston Churchill in Parliament square, London.
September 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I was recently taking Desmond around London. And I got lucky with this image. The light was just right, the angle was perfect and the bird cooperated with me adding a moment to a famous landmark image, featuring the statues of Lloyd George and Winston Churchill in Parliament square, London.
@photosbycastillo.bsky.social hi I just had a thought you might want to share this with those students of yours www.michaelwayneplant.com/street-photo...
Street Photography Thinking by MichaelWPlant
Join me as I share my insights on Street Photography Thinking during my guest speaker talk at the Maine Photography Workshops.
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April 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
@photosbycastillo.bsky.social hi I just had a thought you might want to share this with those students of yours www.michaelwayneplant.com/street-photo...
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I recently was asked to do a guest talk as part of a street photography workshop at Maine Photography Workshop's with David Castilio. This blog post originated in that talk on my thinking on #streetphotography
I recently was asked to do a guest talk as part of a street photography workshop at Maine Photography Workshop's with David Castilio. This blog post originated in that talk on my thinking on #streetphotography
Street Photography Thinking by MichaelWPlant
Join me as I share my insights on Street Photography Thinking during my guest speaker talk at the Maine Photography Workshops.
www.michaelwayneplant.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I recently was asked to do a guest talk as part of a street photography workshop at Maine Photography Workshop's with David Castilio. This blog post originated in that talk on my thinking on #streetphotography
I recently was asked to do a guest talk as part of a street photography workshop at Maine Photography Workshop's with David Castilio. This blog post originated in that talk on my thinking on #streetphotography
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20% of DxO software for New DxO users.
I have an Easter offer for my readers and an explanation of how DxO's new User discount offer works.
I just want to share this great discount code use it if you want to get 20% off for new users only
20% of DxO software for New DxO users.
I have an Easter offer for my readers and an explanation of how DxO's new User discount offer works.
I just want to share this great discount code use it if you want to get 20% off for new users only
Get Your DxO Software Easter offer here. - Michael Wayne Plant
DxO Software Easter offer, and how DxO discount codes work
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April 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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20% of DxO software for New DxO users.
I have an Easter offer for my readers and an explanation of how DxO's new User discount offer works.
I just want to share this great discount code use it if you want to get 20% off for new users only
20% of DxO software for New DxO users.
I have an Easter offer for my readers and an explanation of how DxO's new User discount offer works.
I just want to share this great discount code use it if you want to get 20% off for new users only
I am on my way to the Photography Show at the Excel centre the first time it has been held in London message me if you would like to meet up.
March 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I am on my way to the Photography Show at the Excel centre the first time it has been held in London message me if you would like to meet up.
www.blind-magazine.c... This post has a few good points and yet misses on a couple of critical ones. I will have to write a response to this on my own blog. look out for the soon.
March 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
www.blind-magazine.c... This post has a few good points and yet misses on a couple of critical ones. I will have to write a response to this on my own blog. look out for the soon.
For the final day of the 30/30 Artquest event I decided to make a self portrait. artquest.org.uk/user...
For the month of February, I have been documenting my own life and experimenting with my new Leica M11M camera, it has been a good experiment making images every day.
For the month of February, I have been documenting my own life and experimenting with my new Leica M11M camera, it has been a good experiment making images every day.
March 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
For the final day of the 30/30 Artquest event I decided to make a self portrait. artquest.org.uk/user...
For the month of February, I have been documenting my own life and experimenting with my new Leica M11M camera, it has been a good experiment making images every day.
For the month of February, I have been documenting my own life and experimenting with my new Leica M11M camera, it has been a good experiment making images every day.
Today I am testing out a platform for posting once to multiple social media accounts and seeing if it works The service is Fedica.
I am also currently experimenting with process the images from my recent camera purchase. I got a Leica M11M camera and it only makes Black and White images
I am also currently experimenting with process the images from my recent camera purchase. I got a Leica M11M camera and it only makes Black and White images
February 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Today I am testing out a platform for posting once to multiple social media accounts and seeing if it works The service is Fedica.
I am also currently experimenting with process the images from my recent camera purchase. I got a Leica M11M camera and it only makes Black and White images
I am also currently experimenting with process the images from my recent camera purchase. I got a Leica M11M camera and it only makes Black and White images
I have decided to only follow photography related accounts with this BlueSky account as I want ti be able to see photography and not news and politics on this account and I will have to create another account to read and comment on news and politics otherwise my feed just gets to hard to read
February 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I have decided to only follow photography related accounts with this BlueSky account as I want ti be able to see photography and not news and politics on this account and I will have to create another account to read and comment on news and politics otherwise my feed just gets to hard to read
Night time is no longer a problem with the #LeicaM11M as it is able to work up to 200,000 ISO I am happy to use it up to 50,000 iso.
February 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Night time is no longer a problem with the #LeicaM11M as it is able to work up to 200,000 ISO I am happy to use it up to 50,000 iso.
Using a #LeciaM11M is quite special and I am still learning how to process the images the other day it was so wet that my cat WS not staying out for long. I love thinking in #blackandwhite
February 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Using a #LeciaM11M is quite special and I am still learning how to process the images the other day it was so wet that my cat WS not staying out for long. I love thinking in #blackandwhite
Today I am starting to share some images made with my new #Leicam11m camera, only able to make #blackandwhite images it is liberating to only think in Black and White. Sunset the detail in this image is really impressive when I see it large on my computer screen.
February 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Today I am starting to share some images made with my new #Leicam11m camera, only able to make #blackandwhite images it is liberating to only think in Black and White. Sunset the detail in this image is really impressive when I see it large on my computer screen.
Tomorrow I get to pick up a new camera, I am really looking forward to using a camera that only creates Black & White images. Any ideas what I might be getting?
January 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Tomorrow I get to pick up a new camera, I am really looking forward to using a camera that only creates Black & White images. Any ideas what I might be getting?
This looks like a great way to get a set of images into the wider world. I like this approach www.palestinephotoproject.org/Museum-in-a-...
Museum in a Box
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January 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This looks like a great way to get a set of images into the wider world. I like this approach www.palestinephotoproject.org/Museum-in-a-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P8q...
This is truly amazing, and of interest to me as I am about to get a Black and White only digital camera. I pick it up this Thursday. Any ideas what I might be getting myself?
This is truly amazing, and of interest to me as I am about to get a Black and White only digital camera. I pick it up this Thursday. Any ideas what I might be getting myself?
Trick your brain: black and white photo turns to colour! - Colour: The Spectrum of Science - BBC
YouTube video by BBC
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January 27, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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This is truly amazing, and of interest to me as I am about to get a Black and White only digital camera. I pick it up this Thursday. Any ideas what I might be getting myself?
This is truly amazing, and of interest to me as I am about to get a Black and White only digital camera. I pick it up this Thursday. Any ideas what I might be getting myself?
This is truly and utterly depressing and a good indication of where we are heading with Stopping Climate destruction that is coming www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/20/h... Our leaders need to change course and we are unfortunately going to have to make them do it cos they refuse to.
Hell and High Water: the Year in Climate Chaos
2024 will be the warmest year on record, the year warming topped 1.5 degrees Celsius. It’s the year the US set new oil and gas production records, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia. It’s a year that ...
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December 21, 2024 at 4:00 AM
This is truly and utterly depressing and a good indication of where we are heading with Stopping Climate destruction that is coming www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/20/h... Our leaders need to change course and we are unfortunately going to have to make them do it cos they refuse to.
Does anyone know of any Melbourne (Australia) based Street Photographers who might want to meet up in the next few days while I am visiting.
December 18, 2024 at 3:31 AM
Does anyone know of any Melbourne (Australia) based Street Photographers who might want to meet up in the next few days while I am visiting.
This is a good read of our current capitalism is in relation to the political and economic situation www.bostonreview.net/articles/why... I have thought for a while that we need to rethink how our politics is done.
Why Neoliberalism Needs Neofascists - Boston Review
We’re witnessing the last-ditch effort of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis.
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December 13, 2024 at 12:39 AM
This is a good read of our current capitalism is in relation to the political and economic situation www.bostonreview.net/articles/why... I have thought for a while that we need to rethink how our politics is done.
From my project on Henley Royal Regatta. Once a year I have been attending for the past 20 years now I want to make this project into a book. I am currently looking for a publisher to get this book out into the world.
December 10, 2024 at 10:40 PM
From my project on Henley Royal Regatta. Once a year I have been attending for the past 20 years now I want to make this project into a book. I am currently looking for a publisher to get this book out into the world.
I am so glad that so many photographers are now slowly moving to BlueSky it will enable it to become the community for photographers that they are so desperately looking for. Instagram, Threads, Twitter do not work for sharing images and building connections with fellow photographers.
December 10, 2024 at 10:38 PM
I am so glad that so many photographers are now slowly moving to BlueSky it will enable it to become the community for photographers that they are so desperately looking for. Instagram, Threads, Twitter do not work for sharing images and building connections with fellow photographers.
@zolachrome.com I liked your article on Medium about Black and White photography, I am in the process of writing a post for my website on the subject and found what you wrote interesting cameralux.org/seeing-in-bl...
Seeing in black & white: the monochrome photographer
To get the maximum effect from monochrome photography, you need to understand it as something more than just a palette choice.
cameralux.org
December 10, 2024 at 9:30 PM
@zolachrome.com I liked your article on Medium about Black and White photography, I am in the process of writing a post for my website on the subject and found what you wrote interesting cameralux.org/seeing-in-bl...
I am happy to say that I can now use bsky.app/michaelwplan... to get to my Bluesky account instead of the old one which was the generic one we all seem to sign up with at bsky.social
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December 9, 2024 at 7:36 AM
I am happy to say that I can now use bsky.app/michaelwplan... to get to my Bluesky account instead of the old one which was the generic one we all seem to sign up with at bsky.social
Thanks to a video by
@andyhutchinson.com.au that I saw today, where I learnt that you could have a personalised handle. I have now changed my Bluesky handle to one that I am really happy with!
@andyhutchinson.com.au that I saw today, where I learnt that you could have a personalised handle. I have now changed my Bluesky handle to one that I am really happy with!
December 9, 2024 at 7:28 AM
Thanks to a video by
@andyhutchinson.com.au that I saw today, where I learnt that you could have a personalised handle. I have now changed my Bluesky handle to one that I am really happy with!
@andyhutchinson.com.au that I saw today, where I learnt that you could have a personalised handle. I have now changed my Bluesky handle to one that I am really happy with!
Join me for a online talk on Raw Image processing Software, as I demonstrate how I use DxO's Excellent PhotoLab8 to convert my own raw images.
Sign up here www.michaelwayneplant.com/michael-w-pl...
This coming Thursday, the 28th of November 2024, at 7pm (UK time)
Sign up here www.michaelwayneplant.com/michael-w-pl...
This coming Thursday, the 28th of November 2024, at 7pm (UK time)
November 23, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Join me for a online talk on Raw Image processing Software, as I demonstrate how I use DxO's Excellent PhotoLab8 to convert my own raw images.
Sign up here www.michaelwayneplant.com/michael-w-pl...
This coming Thursday, the 28th of November 2024, at 7pm (UK time)
Sign up here www.michaelwayneplant.com/michael-w-pl...
This coming Thursday, the 28th of November 2024, at 7pm (UK time)