first in!!!!!!!!!

This one comes from bennybedlam:

bennybedlam Pro User says:

completely off topic, but if any of you want to send me down in a blaze of glory, this is your chance to make a plumpish blue condom from birmingham become the worlds hottest photographers assistant;

vote for a class A idiot here:
pa.photoshelter.com/c/shoottheblog/gallery-img-show?G_ID=...

oxyuranus78 Pro User says:

The Feast of Saint Dominick the Abbot is the more pagans among the christian feasts and is characterized by the snakes catchers presence. Here the complete reportage. Let me know what do you think about it.

La Festa di San Domenico Abate è la più pagana tra le feste cristiane ed è caratterizzata dalla presenza dei serpari. Qui il reportage completo. Fatemi sapere cosa ne pensate.

www.flickr.com/photos/23039369@N02/sets/72157604952972211/

im going to ADORE this thread

Just DO NOT WRITE TOO MANY COMMENTS. You must leave enough space for the selfpromotion to be noticed.

From the blue condom promotion above I conclude that "if you have something that you have done and you want people to look at it" is not restricted to street photography (let alone hardcore street photography), so here's my Habitat series

Feel free to delete if my assumption is all wrong.

I started my Welsh Surfaces set. They are 28 images of a seven hour roadtrip accross South Wales with Benny. Absolutely new images of Benny will appear in it at some point in time. 5 images are uploaded every day and today is issue 1! Get in it before it all is over next Monday! Limited edition Blurb books might be produced if the reception is positive!

@barbara: no, you got it right... it's even a perfect complement to my Welsh Surfaces set!

@Mr. Karanka: thanks, note that my Habitat series is not finished yet either, but will grow over time, so make sure to come back and check regularly!

PS: one thing is sure though, Benny will not appear in it...

started shooting some nightlife shit a while back.

local man's nightlife shit WIP

have a look or don't.

trying to give a sense to some rubbish i shot in india:

FLOW

I like to shoot Roller Derby a lot. Girls in skirts knocking the crap out of each other. C'mon.

i write a blog mostly about photography.

Let me selfpromote before someone clever understands that this thread is completely pointless to the group.The NYC experience by a french guy here: www.flickr.com/photos/theexquisiteadventuresof/sets/72157...

Oh and please feel free to delete...

@ thechrisproject : Man, do I love your Roller derby stuff...

I built a new website to show my photos in a little more context. And a blog with random bollocks and a few useful tidbits.

larawechsler.com/news.html

I had to put in this one, a flickr group I curate, love all the photos, none of them are mine:
www.flickr.com/groups/straightaheadstreet/pool/

photographs on the brain
photomixology
La Pura Vida
Twitter

I've managed to get this short-listed for a "Pictures of Leeds" competition!

Unfortunately the winner was to be decided by a public email vote, and, as the closing date has just passed, and no-one's been in touch yet, I suspect success has eluded me (again)...

Another Day of Life

Daily life in urban and rural Africa through the eyes of local people.
And my own from the three month trip I did in 2006.

By the way has anyone experience with Blurb.com or Lulu.com (good or bad)?

@WinstonG: I'm a skilled tripod. We should collaborate.

this kind of self promotion is almost too blatant
:)

The time that I hung out with Chuck Pala-thingy-wotsit, that Fight Club guy, in the Guardian.

www.flickr.com/photos/paulrussell/1470090066/

haha, cool paul. have you read 'non fiction' by chuck? it is a really, really good read. i would reccomend it to any photographer.

@ Benny

No, my reading sort of peaked with the "I am a Bunny" picture book (a classic) -- I mean to get into it again.

Whoops, that wasn't self-promotion either. Erm, I am great, etc.

www.flickr.com/photos/barneymeltonphotography/sets/

My latest attempt at reportage:

www.flickr.com/photos/orhantsolak/sets/72157604985545508/

google Palestine and demonstration and click images. you don't even have to go to these things anymore to get the photographs.

Orhan - i'm kind of with bryan - going to a demonstration and taking some photographs isn't really 'reportage' is it? i reckon the late philip jones griffiths would agree with me...

holy shit i am so fucking great and hot.
(self promotion)

I started shooting film last week.

I would like to be validated now, thank you.

Maybe it's OT, but if you want an easy thing to build a site, on a PHP MySQL hosting check www.indexhibit.org.

www.joostburger.nl was built with it..

@InspectorOyster Like XHTML / CSS Validation?

#05/Appaloosa: Christos Anesti

A photozine I produce every month for myself and the crappy low res PDFs (which lack all the pages). So really its like, so much better than that. Not intended for purchase currently before everyone starts scrabbling for gold cards.

past issues:
#04/ Appaloosa: Viva!
#03/Appaloosa: Gus Zhabs
#02/Appaloosa: South Winds
#01/Appaloosa: Kin

I also have a website: www.samuelbedford.smugmug.com

Oh,oh and a tumblr Cutlery draw

Two series, one just ended prematurely due to the loss of my Leica, and one just begun with a Holga. Both shot in Tokyo's Ginza district and both to appear on a soon-to-be-launched site.

After Dark
Window Shopping

Don't forget that today we have the second delivery of Welsh Surfaces!

is that the one with benny in it?

There is one benny in today's offer and there will be one benny in tomorrow's offer as well! I promise that tomorrow is going to be the grand day of the series, including urban landscapes, snapshot of benny having a milkshake and the first photograph with street flavour! Stay tuned and aware! One of the frames will even have the red/magenta cast corrected... so it has ended up cyan! There will also be some underwear without nudity! Ladies and gentlemen, have a stroll by my stream... limited offer till Monday! Join while it's still building up! Have your say!

@Mr K We want these too, as an extra :-P

I forgot about my blog where I post stupid videos that amuse me.

better colour neg scanning with vuescan

flash site: takes ages to load (as there's loads of audio) so not for the impatient...

Leeds By Night

"takes ages to load (as there's loads of audio) so not for the impatient..."

um, i'm no marketing genius, but uh, that's probably not the way you want to promote your product.

i was curious to see the stuff, but once i started seeing the numbers going up, i closed the site. no offense, but there's tons and tons and tons of work out there. and most curatorial minded people won't look at your work if you make it a pain in the ass to view.

that is the pure and simple truth and you'll hear from people much smarter and successful than i...

I waited for the loading... didn't take too long, but could have done with some sort of teaser?
but as soon as I heard the cheesy camera noises and the fake viewfinder stuff I checked out... I'm all for innovative websites, but that was just cheese.

it's the only way to guarantee your comment will be there for future generations to enjoy.

i just uploaded this photo:

www.flickr.com/photos/localman/2495053785/

which is obviously the best photo ever taken.

ok, so after the referrals, i went back. yes, it's interesting. like the sound mix and the map is nice concept.

so, you're onto something...

not crazy about the photographs, but then again, i'm not crazy about most.

kudos for taking a chance doing something different though. i'll always applaud that....and have it bookmarked, but for me, it feels like a one and done deal. can't imagine nightlife is going to change in leeds too much in the near future.

One day show.... Los Angeles



Open bar though, that's real promotion.

Well @bryanF I love © Maciej Dakowicz's Cardiff at Night set and things, its awesome, I mean that night life scene is very common everywhere but his photos are awesome to me.

www.flickr.com/photos/maciejdakowicz/sets/1391696/

www.flickr.com/photos/jinju/sets/72157604934450089/show/

2 days in Shanghai

@ local man - which god?

My body is like Dionysius' - who conveniently mixed fertility & wine

www.greektheatre.gr/cult.html

I've got the body of a god, but unfortunately it's this one.

bullshittier...

shveckle: i like that stuff...normally i look at everything from cardiff because those guys really only get drunk in the pub and go out shooting...i mean, it's all maciej and joni.....perhaps we should force them to shoot the nightlife sober for three weeks and see what happens...

@Alastair You're lucky. You don't want to see my brand new Yog-Sothoth tentacles. Jesus: HE was sexy, dammit.

tomorrow is the official opening of ‘PROTEST’ - an exhibition featuring the work of six contemporary Polish photographers:
Maciej Dakowicz – Jerzy Bucki - Swiatoslaw Wojtkowiak - Marek Locher - Rafal Bielawa – Radoslaw Komenda

The exhibition will be opened by the Mayor of Charnwood on
Saturday 17th May, at 2 pm at Charnwood Museum, Granby Street,
Loughborough. it is near Leicester, England

details: www.inloughborough.com/news/2008/05/11131_protest.php

each of us shows 6 pictures there, Radek will go there, hope he posts some shots from the opening soon

And today we have reached the famous third offering of Welsh Surfaces!



@bryanf: you might want to check it out, I shot this set sober!

EDIT: had a nap in the meantime and realized that that set wasn't good self-promotion. Instead, I assure you I'm good at taking photos, but please, don't check my stream.

There will be one of my prints hanged up at the 'Executive Lounge' near Corso Como in Milano, from 19.30 to 21.30 on the 23rd of May. Well, that's next Friday. It's with something organized between flickr and the milano group. Go to your closest airport and pick up a plane, it's that good!

there seems to be editing of comments that do in fact contain blatant self promotion.. any reason? or are we just trying to keep the thread tight? (i know i know ridiculous, right?)

I guess its not street but Im now immeresed in a personal project on my family

Home Sweet Home set

and

Family Ties set

Im trying to put together a collection of sets done in a diaristic mode which I call Personal Book (for lack of a better idea)

www.flickr.com/photos/jinju/collections/72157604057061111/

Today the fourth part of Welsh Surfaces is online. It looks like changing topic slowly.

thats a cracker hard to follow. However streamed live to day is the 3rd installment of my appaloosa project Christos Anesti now availiable on flickr!

Hot off the press my new portfolio website: www.erikborst.com. Ch-ch-check it out.

Oh, like the world and his wife, I also have a blog

paulrussellinfo.blogspot.com/

there's not too much shit about me on it, but I do list potentially interesting UK photo exhibitions, so it might be of interest. Or if you have been to a good exhibition let me know.

PS. I am great, etc.

Look at my stream! More than ten new street pictures (11)!! They are excellent!!!

The fourth instalment of Welsh Surfaces is available now!

Dang... this thread pops up when I don't have a gig to promote! Just wait until summer!

oh...and check out www.myspace.com/robertmkirtland

hes amazing:)

andrewfinden.com (it's a bit out of date.. but hey...I'll just re-promote it when it's updated :P)

Hi,
here's my selfpromotion. The world provokes me and I document it for you.

I hope you'll like it.

selfpromo

let's see if this thing really works. it couldn't be that simple surely...

set currently stands at a rather measly 28 views.

For more from my recent trip to Qingdao, host city of the Olympic sailing events this summer, take a look HERE for a slideshow of the better ones uploaded so far

if that satisfies the emperor's eunuchs, then i might have to shamelessly self-promote THIS as well, some sort of best of.

Well, well, well... all of Welsh Surfaces is finally online and the treck is over. Now you can expect the book to arrive anytime soon ;-)

This thread's going to be 300 pages long in about 2 days, so since I don't have any time and I only got to look at Kramer's set taxidermy photos, I wanted to say I loved it before I forget!

Thanks, Chuck! I was just complaining to the story's writer about how all that time we spent there had resulted in something imperfect, and what a drag that is. I should lighten the hell up look on the bright side for once.

yeah i think you have some good stuff in there, and was thinking you should do another one (i don't know how frequent taxidermy conventions are but..). try and get in with a couple taxidermists and then i think you could get plugged into the taxidermy universe and have a pretty interesting project on your hands.

chuckp. We (admins) reserve the right to lock or delete this thread at any moment.... :-)

kramer. I don't know how many times I've said it so far, but how about one more time? I love that set!

local man: Yeah, I met another photographer there who seemed to be thinking along those lines. It's a good idea, although I would have to really psych myself up for that, conventions being the draining experience that they are.

Waxy: Thank you! ...but you know how you're making something and you think "damn, I'm so good at this," then it's done, and you think, "awww, it all came out a little deformed!" I always expect to feel that way, yet it's always a little deflating. Whatever; a year from now, I'll probably love it. Or at least appreciate it more.

kramer. Deflated? I have no idea what you're talking about. No idea at all. But I wish that you could see my photographs on my 3" dSLR LCD. They are quite something and that's when they look their best! For some reason when I upload them to Flickr, all of a sudden the banality of it all seems so clear....

Since we are self-promoting.....

8-10 of my photos from these two projects will be shown by David Alan Harvey at the Look 3 festival in Charlottsville this summer.

Home Sweet Home set

and

Family Ties set

Did I make it on the first page? Not street exactly:
www.flickr.com/photos/chuckp/sets/72157594395557652/show/

sometimes i shoot like gilden:

You fuck with the devil, you get the horns.

fuck with the devil: 100$ in any western city
get the horns: 5$ at naples

the pleasure of appearing on top page of explore with a pic tagged "cazzo vuoi"... (translated "what the fuck you want?")

priceless

No more additions

new set:

thx 4 the add

I wanted to share this :)

@!Jinju: your Family Ties set is excellent.

thanks Mort!

I was published in the Morning Star again

www.flickr.com/photos/newworldannie/2513611504/

www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index2.php/ex/examples

edit: it's in the actual paper too, not just that tiny thumbnail on the website...

@Jinju: Yeah, there's a nice flow to that, too.

I suck at editing so thats good news to me kramer:)

One More Night book.

@ Benny

Named after the Phil Collins song, right? I love that song.

Edit: I am great.

holy shit. there goes all my credibility....

edit: i kick ass

me
blatant enough?

Benny.. Can't see the set you linked too :(

Shot this in downtown Chicago last week. Feedback is appreciated!



(Plz comment on the photo, not in this thread if possible!)

TS

Wow, Trevor, you're learning fast. I was about to copy your comment here and you did it yourself. Good job to see this thread working. I really had a great idea.

TS: I don't want to critique the quality of the "Blatant Self-Promotion Thread" (entirely too meta, even for me), but I think we're looking for something more than a single image, unless it relates to the topic at hand. And I'm not sure you want people to comment on the photo rather than in the thread (certainly not this thread, because this is not the image critique thread, where I see you have also put this shot–three threads in one day devoted to the same boring picture? Surely you deserve some kind of award for that), because the image critique thread gets a little rough, so it's not the place to fish for the digital thumbs-up.

"three threads in one day devoted to the same boring picture? Surely you deserve some kind of award for that"

Most persistent selfpromotion? I still think that we, the admins, are pretty cool having theads like this. Much better than this bunch of muppets.

'soon / plan b'