If you haven’t heard the news, Jolie O’Dell’s Blogging for Photographers is now available to buy, and it’s already receiving great reviews such as this one from Digital SLR Photography magazine: You can of course buy the book from good bookshops or from Amazon, [...]
Regular readers will know that The Art of iPhoneography is one of our most persistently best-selling titles. It sold out in the UK earlier this year and there are a stack of orders that have arrived at our distributors in the meantime. Happily, after [...]
If you missed Wednesday’s broadcast on Ilex Live, don’t despair! The recorded (and somewhat, ahem, cleaner) version is now available to watch. - SEE authors, photographers and entrepreneurs, Haje Jan Kamps and Daniela Bowker, who arrived at Ilex HQ with uncannily matching red outfits (actually, [...]
…and it wasn’t mould growing in the coffee mug. Oh, no. I arrived at work this morning to find this scene: and it was an exciting moment, and one I thought I would share, as a glimpse behind the curtain (or, if you prefer, [...]
The other day whilst browsing the internet, as I spend most of my day doing*, I came across this saucy and rather brilliant tribute to Ryan Armbrust’s fabulous pin-up photography book, Shoot Sexy: Isn’t it great! The only other tribute I know of for [...]
If you’re a working photographer these days, you’re a blogger too, by default. It’s how you’ll be discovered, it’s how clients will understand your work, it’s how that cute photo of your cat went viral, and best of all it’s cheap and fun. But [...]
At 4:30 (GMT) this afternoon we have top photographers and authors, Daniela Bowker and Haje Jan Kamps, live in conversation here at Ilex HQ. Formerly two of the most prominent bloggers on Pixiq.com, the pair jumped ship right before the site went down to [...]
Hitting the UK’s streets this week is the new edition of Justin Quinnell’s (incredibly affordable) introduction to the amazing art of pinhole photography. I don’t know how familiar you are with this as a technique, but it’s pretty incredible – you can, with a [...]
The great thing about our digital project, Ilex Instant – in fact really the point of it – is that we can get things done a whole lot quicker than in traditional print publishing. This means that we’re able to respond far quicker to [...]
As regular readers will know, we’re all about freedom here at Ilex Acres. That’s why we sell our own e-editions DRM free, and that’s why one of our favourite authors is Haje Jan Kamps, author of the wonderful The Rules of Photography (And When [...]
DRM, digital rights management, practically means tying electronic books you buy through a device like a Kindle to that device, so you’re stuck in the ‘ecosystem’ of the vendor. Once you’ve got a Kindle (at a bargain price, perhaps) you’ll probably have to buy [...]
…That’s BBC Radio Cambridgeshire by the way. Well Cambridge is the manga capital of the UK don’t you know! Anyway, if you’re one of the few people left in the UK who doesn’t already know what manga is, you’d better have a listen to [...]
