Posted in Animals, Photographers on Dec 31st, 2009 No Comments »
Looking Fabulous in Fur Absolutely stunning animal portraits by Rob MacInnis. I take the conventions from the fashion world and apply them to the underclass barnyard animal,” Rob MacInnis said. Rob’s site has more images: Rob MacInnis.
Posted in Hiking, Landscape on Dec 30th, 2009 6 Comments »
Kent, Connecticut. The Connecticut chapter of The Nature Concervency maintains this 800 acre preserve. This day it was 18 F out and the windchill was well below 0. In other words, it was seriously cold. David and I took the two hour hike just to get out and I wanted to see how hiking in [...]
Posted in People, Photojournalism, Slide Show, Stories on Dec 28th, 2009 No Comments »
One in 8 Million This is a New York Times online feature and happens to be one of the best of its kind I’ve ever seen. This is an incredible collection of still images built as slide shows with voice overlays of the people being documented. Everyday New Yorkers telling their stories. Great photography, well [...]
Posted in Travel on Dec 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Do new post-pantsbomber TSA security directives kill inflight WiFi? I hope this settles out soon. Gary is flying on a United PS flight (WiFi) today I’ve not seen him online yet which might mean United took it offline. We’ll know when he gets to the other side. The problem here is not what happens on [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, People on Dec 27th, 2009 2 Comments »
On the Appalachian Trail between Kent and Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut. We’ve done this hike many times recently but it’s so good we decided to do it again to introduce Gary to it before he flies home to Oregon tomorrow. We had a great day, less ice than we thought, more mud but no problem and [...]
Posted in Architecture, People on Dec 25th, 2009 2 Comments »
Almost every town in New England has one of these traditional Congregational churches and while they look great in daylight they also look great lit up at night. The coldness of New England winter and the traditional white exterior offset the warmth of candle-lit windows. I’m not a Christian nor do I belong to this [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Places on Dec 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Photo Journal: Dec. 20- Dec. 24 Image #4 (kids eating with birds in Moscow) is wonderful.
Posted in Photo Gear, Photographers, Video on Dec 23rd, 2009 3 Comments »
Prague: Canon 1DMKIV from Philip Bloom on Vimeo. This is quite an amazing video no matter what camera made it but it happens to have been made by Philip Bloom on a Canon 1D Mark IV DSLR on a cold winter day in Prague. Fantastic. Zoom it out to full screen for best viewing. [via [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, People on Dec 23rd, 2009 2 Comments »
Richard, David, Loren and Gary on Bear Mountain, Connecticut. Our friend Gary is visiting for the Holidays and what better way to introduce him to hiking the AT than a quick jaunt in snow up Bear Mountain. The hike went very well but on top of Bear the wind was so strong that a 24 [...]
Posted in Adventure, Opinion, Photo Gear, Travel on Dec 22nd, 2009 6 Comments »
The GF1 is a near perfect travel camera Craig Mod reviews the Panasonic GF1 micro four thirds camera. He also has some nice video shot with it: POINT & SHOOT 720p HD. [via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Photographers, Photojournalism, Stories, Video on Dec 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Ryan Lobo has traveled the world, taking photographs that tell stories of unusual human lives. In this haunting talk, he reframes controversial subjects with empathy, so that we see the pain of a Liberian war criminal, the quiet strength of UN women peacekeepers and the perseverance of Delhi’s under appreciated firefighters. This is a wonderful [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, People on Dec 19th, 2009 1 Comment »
On the Appalachian Trail between Kent and Cornwall Bridge. Dave just got back from the Virgin Islands (poor guy) and Loren and I decided to "break him in easy" with this hike we just did. It’s a great hike, starting at Rt. 341 in Kent and having lunch and turning around at Caleb’s Peak where [...]
Posted in Landscape, Photographers on Dec 18th, 2009 2 Comments »
Camille Seaman: This Other World Wonderful images of sky, ice, penguins and more. She’s a master of natural lighting and shoots both film and digital. Note: it’s a flash site that’s particularly tough to navigate but the images are well worth it. She talks about her equipment in the frequently asked questions section of the [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Photographers, Places on Dec 17th, 2009 11 Comments »
Winter Weather The Frame, the Sacramento Bee’s photoblog has a spectacular collection of winter images. The first two alone make the collection.
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Resources, Photo Sites, Slide Show on Dec 17th, 2009 2 Comments »
Vowl Vowl is a free Macintosh application from stevenf (Panic) that given a tag or list of tags will display a random flickr slideshow in a window on your computer. Simple, clean, well designed and fun. If you click on an image you go directly to that image on flickr. If this becomes popular it [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking on Dec 16th, 2009 4 Comments »
North of Kent, Connecticut. Loren and I decided to do the stretch of the Appalachian Trail from Kent to St. John’s Ledges again. It’s a great hike and great hikes are worth repeating. It’s about an eight mile hike total. When I took this picture I had to take my gloves off and between sitting [...]
Posted in Opinion, Photo Gear on Dec 16th, 2009 No Comments »
DP Review has just posted their Canon PowerShot G11 review. They give it a mixed review, mostly positive. I find the camera fine for it’s price point and place in the world of higher end point and shoot cameras. It’s almost perfect for what I use it for. My only complaint (so far) is that [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Video on Dec 16th, 2009 No Comments »
PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God This is a beautifully produced short movie. Great idea, artfully shot and edited. There is also a blog: PostSecret. It reminds me of something called The Apology Line which I heard about as a segment on This American Life. The Apology Line was a creation of the conceptual [...]
Posted in iPhone, Tech Stuff on Dec 14th, 2009 No Comments »
Free Speech (Recognition) David Pogue on the new Dragon Dictation for iPhone, a free, speech to text application that, according to Pogue, works well. Read his review for his discussion of the privacy issues and more.
Posted in Art and Design, Objects, Video on Dec 14th, 2009 No Comments »
This is a wonderful process documentary of various steps in the making of shell chairs that Charles and Ray Eames designed for Herman Miller. Great music too. [via kottke.org]
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