In a very interesting piece written for BBC Travel , journalist Kathleen Rellihan touches on the effects of tourism and asks herself if it is now time to rethink the meaning of ‘being a tourist'. I can relate to so much of what is written in the article that I felt the urge to write this post. For Kathleen Rellihan, it all started in the sweltering heat of a June night in...

Everything You Need to Know About Cara, the AI-Free Social Media Platform for Artists Have you heard about Cara? This app has taken the art community by storm in the past week. It skyrocketed from 40,000 to 700,000 users in just seven days, mainly thanks to Instagram's controversy over using images to train AI. With its recent surge, the numbers are likely even higher now. The app also cracked the top 5...

If you are looking for information on how to deny consent to AI at Meta and exercise your right to object, this is it. This morning, I received an email from Meta (the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and several other services). It looked like a regular notification that privacy policies were updated, which is normal practice. When new features are released, the need to update policies and include these new...

AI art platforms can create stunning on-brand images for your e-commerce site with just text prompts. Learn the simple formula for visually-striking backdrops, colours, and compositions and boost your sales with no design experience needed!

You can now find my AI content at fabienb.ai on Instagram . I have had my Instagram account @fabienb since the platform launch in 2010, and I always refused to create and manage a separate account. Mainly because it would have been too much work. Even if I was publishing diverse content like travel, portrait or street photography, my main account still represented my work as a photographer. So it made sense...

I have always had a thing about calendars… I just released a few free desktop calendars made out of AI creations, and today I’m adding a new one: the Hashtag Calendar. Now, what is the hashtag calendar? The Hashtag Calendar is your ultimate content creation and marketing calendar! And it’s available in the store right now! Ever struggled with ideas for your social media posts? Are you a food blogger searching for when to post your...

Once again, I found that I had used one of the Instagram banned hashtag. Now, this has nothing to do with the infamous “shadowban” practice controversy. I noticed a slight decrease in engagement compared to previous posts, so I decided to investigate a little. It turns out that the hashtag #sunriselovers had been flagged for inappropriate content. Which meant that it was not generating any engagement because Instagram hidden my post. This...

That's right: I created 4 weeks' worth of Instagram content walking in Central London for less than 30 minutes. It could even be more than 4 weeks, considering I'm a bit of a slow uploader on my main IG feed at @fabienb . But here are 20 photos I find worth sharing. At 5 a week, that's 4 weeks of Instagram content. All taken on a short 30-minute walk. A little of...

My friend Dot Lung asked me to go live with her and talk about smartphone photography tips and how to take better photos with your phone. We both use iPhones, but all we talked about applies to Android as well. We did not talk about specific apps only available for one platform but actually discussed real examples of taking photos with a phone. Dot Lung is a fantastic Digital Media Strategist who...

I created my YouTube account in 2006 and managed to wait 14 years to open my Photography YouTube channel. Now it's time. Too late?

What is the Instagram box, you may ask? Well, Instagram has changed how we think about photography more than we can imagine. I'll just give you some quick stats about the platform: (stats come from several sources: Digital & Social Marketing Conference London, Omnicore, Pew Research Center, Statista) Instagram was not the first online photography platform, but it was the first 100% mobile (even only on Apple iPhone in the beginning). And...

Not many people know about it, but I was the first Italian male food blogger. I started writing La Cuisine de Fabien in early 2006. Only a few food blogs existed back then, and even only a few blogs in general. I was looking for a recipe online and found a couple websites that looked like they were written by “normal” people (as in “not professional chefs”). Being much less of a...