PhotoLegal | Darren Hector

Darren Hector

Darren founded PhotoLegal in early 2009 and is a photographer specialising mainly in wildlife and nature. He has a particular interest in species that are considered as pests by humans, and is particularly fond of wild canids (foxes, wolves etc), starlings and hyena. In 2008 he trained as a scuba diver and now photographs both under and over the water. He founded the PhotowalkLondon group and organises a monthly walk in different parts of the UK capital as a social opportunity for photographers to meet up and take pictures. Outside of photography, he is a keen fan of Formula 1 and has recently started playing the tuba again after a fourteen year gap.

Darren Hector has written 27 posts for PhotoLegal

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US Supreme Court rules on fair use

By Darren Hector ⋅ April 27, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I was really interested to read of a US designer who was threatened by for using discarded chocolate bar wrappers in her art.

There are interesting questions for photographers which we could usefully discuss on the show.

PhotoLegal gets an iPhone bookmarklet

By Darren Hector ⋅ April 27, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Thanks to listener Ian Rendall, there’s now an iPhone bookmarklet widgety thing which we’ve just loaded up onto the site.

Please let us have your feedback

By Darren Hector ⋅ April 26, 2009 ⋅ 8 comments

Over one hundred people looked at PhotoLegal within the hour after the first podcast was launched. Given it is a Sunday night, and Phill tells me that Sunday is the worst day for posting anything on the internet, I think that’s outstanding. While I thanked James and Phill on the recording for their efforts, I [...]

No. 1 – An introduction, and a brief guide to copyright

By Darren Hector ⋅ April 26, 2009 ⋅ 10 comments

We’re pleased to announce that podcast No. 1 is now available to listen to within this post, or to download for loading onto your mp3 player of choice. It was certainly a technical challenge recording for the first time, which is why it has taken so long to edit for your delectation. However, ready it is and we really hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed making it.

Recording #1 in the can, #2 looks to be just in time

By Darren Hector ⋅ April 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Wow! What a great response to the launch of PhotoLegal yesterday (Thursday). I’ve just been looking at the stats with Phill, and lots of people responded to the pieces written by Olivier Laurent at the British Journal of Photography (BJP) and Kate Day at the Telegraph. We’ll now do our best to live up to [...]

Episode #1 of PhotoLegal to be released this weekend

By Darren Hector ⋅ April 23, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Yes, the time’s getting near. We’re recording the first ever episode of PhotoLegal tomorrow (Thursday 23 April) and it should be available to download some time over the weekend. Keep your eye on the website, or subscribe to the RSS feed and you’ll be the first to know.