In the Garden A great set of formal garden shots by photographer Beth Dow. The sepia treatment and square cropping really works for these.

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Hulu Desktop I’ve been considering getting a Tivo for a while now because I’m a big fan of time shifting TV and radio and have enjoyed podcasting as a way to time shift my favorite radio shows so why not TV with Tivo? I’m glad I waited because I can now watch all of my [...]

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On This Earth A collection of Nick Brandt’s incredible photographs of animals in East Africa. This is both a show of prints and a book. The book at Amazon: On This Earth: Photographs from East Africa Nick’s work reminds me a bit of the etherial quality of Gregory Colbert’s Ashes and Snow work. Frankly, I [...]

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Wonderful piece on Earth, Venus, the Sun and our solar system. [via Dilip Muralidaran]

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Google Wave is a new collaborative communication tool for the web and because it incorporates so many existing tools (chat, email, threaded discussion, and more) it’s rather hard to describe. This is the keynote at the Google I/O conference and a development version of Wave is shown and discussed. The keynote is at least an [...]

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Obama College Photos To Go On Display Lisa Jack, a fellow student of Barack Obama’s at Occidental College took some nice images of him for a photo class. Run the video at Huffpost (I linked here because MSNBC has an advertisement tacked on).

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Los Angeles, California. Today my mother turned 94. Wow, that’s a big number. She also just gave up driving and will be relinquishing some of her independence by having someone come and help her shop and run errands. I wish I’d taken more time to get a decent shot of her, this was rushed and [...]

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The Huntington Gardens, Pasadena, California. While most of the tourists were in the magnificent rose garden, my mother and I snuck into the small and out of the way herb garden where there were some nice poppies. Some of them looked suspiciously like opium and were oozing some kind of sap. No, I didn’t test [...]

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New Yorker Cover Art, Painted With an iPhone The cover of the issue of The New Yorker hitting the stands now was done by Jorge Colombo with the Brushes application on his iPhone. I don’t have it yet but will no doubt save it in my New Yorker cover collection. It “made it easy for [...]

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New York City. A view of Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry. I blew this shot last Christmas but on second thought I like it well enough to post now. If you can time the ferry ride for the season, you can catch the Manhattan skyline as the sun goes down and then catch the [...]

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Photography is still legal on the streets of New York Good thing. Watch out for the use of tripods in Grand Central Station and in various parks. Not sure how legal tripods are in various places. [via Edward McKeown]

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Essay: Slow Photography in an Instantaneous Age Fred Conrad on the usefulness of slowing down to better consider a photograph. This is one of the many reasons I like to use a tripod; it forces me to slow down and set up a shot as well as giving me exposure options not available with a [...]

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Shepard Fairey ripped off my picture first Ed Nachtrieb took a picture of two Chinese soldiers in Beijing. That iconic image was used by Fairy in a poster. The comment thread is fascinating. This is a discussion of copyright, citation, ethics and what exactly original artwork is. Fascinating and no doubt all of us have [...]

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Photo Journal: Pictures of the Day Wonderful collection of images from around the world.

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The Big Picture is back from vacation with a great set on Hubble’s final servicing mission.

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New York City. Any time I walk by this great building at the intersection of Broadway, 5th Ave., and 23rd St. I have to take a picture of it. Day or night, it’s a fascinating piece of historical New York architecture. Flatiron Building at Wikipedia

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The Race to Provide Wi-Fi at 30,000 Feet So far, said Joe Brancatelli, publisher of the business travel Web site Joesentme.com, “there is zero proof” that a significant number of passengers are willing to pay for in-flight Wi-Fi service on domestic routes. (The Aircell service depends on land-based cellular towers and cannot be used on [...]

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The New York Times has a new photoblog called Lens. Here’s the introduction. Note that the new photoblog has an RSS feed which will make it easy to follow.

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Drilling Down: Social Networks Eclipse E-Mail Alongside the explosive growth of online video over the last six years, time spent on social networks surpassed that for e-mail for the first time in February, signaling a paradigm shift in consumer engagement with the Internet. I’m not sure what this means but it can’t be all good. [...]

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Li Ward gives Expert Tips on Photographing Your Pets. Great tips. Her website is Fat Orange Cat.

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