My flickr contact Michael Greenwood has done a great job of both photographing and processing this succulent.

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Washington, Connecticut. A friend and I are scouting a two mile stretch of the Shepaug River to see if we could kayak it safely. The river is high enough from recent rain so that many of the biggest rocks are covered yet isn’t moving fast enough to scare the daylights out of us. This is [...]

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The Sacramento Bee, The Frame: Weather in July around the world. This is a great collection. The weather has been weird, at least here in New England.

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The Big Picture: 2009 Tour de France Incredible images.

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Damon Winter’s images of Xingu National Park, Brazil. “It was a magical experience,” he said. “I may never have an experience like this again in my life.” The three images are incredible.

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I’ve been listening to various shows on National Public Radio (NPR) since the ’70s. NPR People: On-Air is NPR’s directory of all of those familiar names and voices we’ve come to know (and love) over the years. Have fun browsing.

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The Frame: Endeavour’s visit to the space station Wonderful collection of images, some from the space shuttle Endeavor, some from the STS-127 space station.

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Jill Krementz Remembers Walter Cronkite This is a great collection of images from a world class photographer who photographed the private side of Cronkite for many years. [via kottke.org]

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NY Times Lens: On Assignment: Afghanistan. A collection of excellent images by David Guttenfelder, the chief Asia photographer for The Associated Press. “For photographers, there’s really no other way to tell the story but in the micro way, the intimate level,” he said. “The closer you can get to the company or platoon or squad [...]

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Surfing, With a Dark Edge Chris Bickford’s project about the local surf scene on the Outer Banks of North Carolina was all about firsts: his first time shooting in water, his first time capturing a fast-action sport and his first time conceptualizing completely in black and white. This is an exceptional collection of surfing images. [...]

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Blind Photographers Both a blog and a photoblog “by, for and about blind and visually-impaired photographers.”

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The Big Picture In Afghanistan, Part 1 The Big Picture In Afghanistan, Part 2 This is one of the best collections of images from Afghanistan yet. #9, the thumbnail headshots are incredible.

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Weaving the way to the Moon The BBC has put together a great back story on the building and programming of the computer aboard Apollo 11 that guided and controlled the trip to and from the moon. The video interviews are amazing as is the entire story. Programming the computer, doing navigation with the sextant, [...]

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Lens Culture has a collection of Audio Interviews with leading photographers. Highly recommended. Listen to a few at time, return for more.

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Photo Journal: Apollo’s Historic Lunar Landing This is an unusual and excellent collection of images of the entire event, including a candid of the now late Walter Cronkite.

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Walter Cronkite, one of the most trusted newsmen in history, has died at 92. In this video Cronkite reflects on what it was like to be on the air while watching the first man reach the moon. I grew up with him although my parents knew him better than I did. The CBS news team [...]

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Blind Photographers Use Gadgets to Realize Artistic Vision Carrying around a Nokia N82 cellphone, Dejong used assistive software to translate sounds into visuals in his mind. After stitching together a mental image of his surroundings, he snapped photos with his Canon and Leica digital cameras. The new iPhone has a feature called VoiceOver, which reads [...]

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Artistic tendencies linked to ‘schizophrenia gene’ …the mutation dampens a brain region that reins in mood and behaviour, called the prefrontal cortex. This change could unleash creative potential in some people and psychotic delusions in others. This is fascinating and an early piece of a larger understanding of both mental illness and creative thought and [...]

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NY TimesReaders’ Moon Memories. Readers submit photos taken in 1969 when the Apollo 11 mission happened. The images and stories are fantastic. Recommended reading. You can submit yours here.

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Apple considering matte option on more Macs? Yes, this is great news. Consider, then adopt Apple.

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