Portraits of Power A nice New Yorker collection of 50 portraits of world leaders with audio commentary by New Yorker photographer Platon.

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Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut. David and Loren hiked north on the Appalachian Trail from Kent to Cornwall Bridge leaving a car in Kent. I drove to Cornwall Bridge and hiked south to meet them and then we doubled back and I drove them to their car. I was on my own so brought bigger camera gear [...]

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Norman Rockwell’s Photographic Eye Norman Rockwell is a familiar name. You probably know him for his illustrations that defined the rosy aesthetic of mid-century America. But what you might not know is that almost all of his paintings began first as photographs.

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1x.com is a photo community that’s tightly edited and moderated. They seem to have a large number of excellent photographers represented there.

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Chris Friel does wonderful monochromatic, tilt-shift photography. He also has a flickr account: chrisfriel. [via Dale Allyn]

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Prey is a small application that you install on a Mac or a PC laptop and if that computer is ever stolen Prey will help you track it. It’s open source and free. I haven’t installed it yet but it does sound quite useful. Of course, it also seems to allow the folks running the [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. We’re feeling rather wiped out today from a big Thanksgiving dinner, guests, and the inevitable cleanup, and it’s gloomy out so out comes the tripod and macro lens for a different perspective on the world. This flower is not doing well but has some nice little blooms on it.

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Back to the Land This is a wonderful Thanksgiving essay by the artist Maira Kalman. It’s a must read for anyone interested in food and how we think about it. Her excellent New York Times column And the Pursuit of Happiness has an RSS feed.

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The Zone System Developed by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer in 1941, the zone system is a systematic way work with exposure and processing to get the right gradient of tones from white to black. Most of us are just trying to get a handle on the different light meters in our DSLRs, let alone [...]

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Photojojo Fun photo gifts and gear for photographers. Fun stuff.

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The Dreamy Diana Lens A plastic lens that attaches to Canon or Nikon DSLRs and gives images the look of the Diana toy camera. I’m guessing Gary will have one of these soon. [via Jonne Naarala]

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Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut. The Housatonic River is right behind me as I take this and these are the southern Berkshire Mountains. This stretch of the AT is the longest stretch along a river on it’s entire 2000 mile run, about eight miles on the west bank of the Housatonic. We only did about six miles [...]

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My flickr contact nsbkaizen has discovered that a Really Right Stuff MC-L Universal L Plate will fit just about any camera, including a small point and shoot making it easy to clamp the camera onto any Arca Swiss compatible quick release clamp.

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Absolutely incredible behind the scenes glimpse of a genius’s process. Zoom it out, full screen, you will not regret it. [via Ken O'Connell]

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National Geographic’s International Photography Contest 2009 Alan Taylor at The Big Picture makes these images look better than National Geographic itself.

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Much loved photo supply store B&H sued for job discrimination against women This will be interesting.

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My long time flickr contact rosemary* remains the queen of bokeh with this shot of ornamental maple leaves with a great blurred background. Notice she’s using a Canon 5D with a Zeiss 50mm f/1.4 lens.

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Santa Monica, California. My mother has two first cousins in Los Angeles who she sees pretty often and Bob Fleer is one of them. His mother was my mother’s father’s sister. Bob has a PhD in psychology, is brilliant, a Mac head, a photogarpher, an iPhone addict, a serious ping pong player, a serious tango [...]

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Los Angeles, California. My 94 year old mother is having a rough time moving a mouse, knowing which buttons to push to navigate gmail, and finding those buttons if/when she knows what they are. I’m not entirely sure a bigger screen will help but she’s insistent it’s google’s poor design, not the fact that she’s [...]

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Washington, Connecticut. If you’re going to go to a kirtan Krishna Das is the person you want leading it. He’s the real deal and if you get into it it will get into you.

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