Posted in Aerial Photography on Apr 30th, 2010 No Comments »
Joys of the Window Seat The New York times asked for reader submissions of aerial images taken on commercial flights. I was too late to offer up mine but there are some great ones in this collection.
Posted in Photo Sites, Photojournalism, Places on Apr 30th, 2010 1 Comment »
Looking back at the Vietnam War The Vietnam War ended 35 years ago today. This is an amazing collection of images including the most famous ones.
Posted in Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Tech Stuff on Apr 29th, 2010 4 Comments »
4 Ways to Keep an iPad Secure and Private Excellent tips by Riva Richmond at The New York Times.
Posted in People, Photo Sites, Photographers on Apr 29th, 2010 No Comments »
Jump with Philippe Halsman Fantastic collection of images by the the late photographer Phillipe Halsman. There is a show of Halsman’s Jump series on right now at the Laurence MIller Gallery in New York. including the most famous image in the collection of Salvador Dali, cats, a chair, and water all in mid-air. Laurence MIller [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photojournalism, Stories, Video on Apr 29th, 2010 No Comments »
Human Scale in the Grand Central Dig I highly recommend watching this short feature of New York Times photographer Todd Heisler on a photo assignment in a new subway tunnel in New York City. Great videography, narration, and nice images. Zoom it out full screen. Looks like he’s using 2 EOS Canon 5D Mark II [...]
Posted in Canon PowerShot G11, Hiking, Landscape on Apr 28th, 2010 4 Comments »
West Cornwall, Connecticut. Hiking along the Appalachian Trail with the Housatonic River behind me. This field and these hills are coming to life so fast they seem to have changed colors in just a few days. Of course with the march toward summer comes the march of insects in New England. I guess it’s worth [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Collections, Objects on Apr 28th, 2010 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I used to collect these things but then when I lost one to TSA just after 9/11 I stopped. No hard feelings, just can’t always remember to leave these things at home. Note the various one handed knives, the thin French fruit testing knife and the black Kershaw with the Damascus (folded steel) [...]
Posted in Photo Editing Software, Video on Apr 27th, 2010 No Comments »
Wow, this is great stuff.
Posted in Ideas, Photo Printing on Apr 27th, 2010 3 Comments »
Laptopogram Laptopograms are images made by pressing photosensitive paper onto a laptop screen and flashing an image in a manner not unlike contact printing or photograms. More on the process. Talk about mixed media. Fantastic idea. No doubt Gary will be trying this soon. [via Kottke.org]
Posted in Ideas, iPad on Apr 27th, 2010 2 Comments »
iPad Could Be A Beneficial Device For The Disabled I’d change the title of the piece: The iPad IS a beneficial device for people with disabilities. I’m quite sure that my friend David Niemeijer is hard at work redoing his… wait, he’s already done it. As is stated in the piece, when you walk around [...]
Posted in Landscape, Photographers, Places on Apr 26th, 2010 No Comments »
Freezing the volcano’s lightning This is an excellent piece on how Lucas got some amazing images. It took me a while to nail down the correct exposure. I did a custom white balance off of the lightly clouded sky above the volcano to get the color that you see in this frame. Below is a [...]
Posted in Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Collections, Objects, Organization, Tools on Apr 25th, 2010 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I was inspired by Carlo so decided to do a "pocket dump" of things I carry daily. For every "thing" you see here there are numerous others that I bought and tried and put in a drawer because I don’t like them. I have a bunch of watches, a bunch of wallets, numerous [...]
Posted in Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, People, Photo Sites, Photographers on Apr 25th, 2010 1 Comment »
My good friend Mamen Saura has put up her first photo website and it’s absolutely stunning. Check it out: A Perspective of the World. She’s one of the photographers involved with our Wabi Sabi magazine project and her work can also be seen on Flickr.
Posted in Humor, People, Quotations on Apr 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
I’ve been collecting quotations for years and figured I’d put my collections online for others to use as they wish. Enjoy these quotations, use the comment form to share any quotations by women you don’t find here. I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Stories on Apr 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
Alison Wright The New York Times Lens blog has an interview with Alison on her photo work in Tibet: Tibetan Nomads, Remote in a Remote Land. It’s worth following the link above to her site and after browsing her excellent images, watching the video/interviews, especially Learning to Breathe in which she describes an accident she [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Photo Editing Software, Photojournalism on Apr 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Reuters Retracts Icelandic Volcano Photo This is a fascinating story. This is the comment I made in the thread at PetaPixel: I think most of us can agree that a DSLR is doing some processing before the image gets written to the card and how a photographer sets things up will determine how little or [...]
Posted in Adventure, Photo Sites, Photographers, Places on Apr 20th, 2010 No Comments »
Shuttle Discovery’s 15-day mission to the space station This is a particularly amazing set of images of the ISS, Shuttle, and astronauts working in space. Wow.
Posted in Photographers, Places, Social Software on Apr 20th, 2010 No Comments »
A Moment in Time This New York Times Lens blog assignment is simple: they want us to document a moment in time all over the planet and submit the images we take to them for publication. Take a picture on Sunday, May 2 at 15:00 hours U.T.C which is the same as Greenwich Mean Time [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Gear on Apr 18th, 2010 4 Comments »
Stabilize Your Camera with Some PVC Pipe Very clunky and nerdy but a great idea actually.
Posted in People, Photographers, Places on Apr 16th, 2010 4 Comments »
Manjari Sharma Photography The Boingboing reference was to her shower series which is spectacular but her images of water and India are great too. She is a master of light and color. [via Boing Boing]
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