Posted in People, Photo Gear, Places, Video on Apr 29th, 2013 No Comments »
Bert Stephani does a video review of the Fuji X100s in Brussels. A very nice discussion and tour through the city shooting two women in various settings. His use of a small corded off-camera flash is brilliant. [via Zapong]
Posted in People, Photography, Process, Studio Photography, Video on Apr 23rd, 2013 4 Comments »
This is a great behind the scenes look at Christopher Wahl, one of the top portrait photographers shooting now. The piece by 16×9 is great as is Wahl’s work. The last piece of the show is on swelling ball bearings, another topic unrelated. [via PetaPixel]
Posted in Animation, Art and Design, People, Video on Apr 23rd, 2013 No Comments »
This is a wonderful look into the life (and house) of artist Gary Baseman. I’ve been following his graphical work for many years and no doubt some seeing this will recognize certain characters from illustration work he’s done for alternative and mainstream magazines. The retrospective he’s talking about will be at the Skirball Cultural Center [...]
Posted in New York, People, Places, Sony RX1 on Apr 21st, 2013 6 Comments »
New York City. We went into the city to visit friends and attend a dance recital by another friend who’s both a choreographer and modern dancer. I had my new Sony RX1 with me and took a few pictures including this one across Bryant Park behind the main branch of the New York Public Library. [...]
Posted in iPad, People, Photographers on Apr 13th, 2013 No Comments »
My flickr contact Lars.Jeppesen caught another great image of his kids hanging out with his Sony RX1.
Posted in Cats, People, Photographers on Apr 12th, 2013 No Comments »
Photos Capture the Friendship Between a Little Girl and Her Cat This is a brilliant series. Andy Prokh of Saint Petersburg, Russia spends his days working as an economist, but its his passion for photography that has garnered him international attention on the Internet as of late. Prokh has been shooting photographs of his four [...]
Posted in Old Photos, People, Photographers on Apr 8th, 2013 2 Comments »
Native Americans: Portraits From a Century Ago Alan Taylor at The Atlantic has put together an incredible collection of Edward S. Curtis images of Native Americans. In the early 1900s, Seattle-based photographer Edward S. Curtis embarked on a project of epic scale, to travel the western United States and document the lives of Native Americans [...]
Posted in People, Process on Apr 7th, 2013 1 Comment »
The Battle We Didn’t Choose Jennifer Merendino’s battle against breast cancer was documented by her husband, Angelo. The images are powerful and this is a rare look into the intimate details of Jennifer’s battle.
Posted in People, Photographers, Places, Sony RX100 on Apr 2nd, 2013 No Comments »
Flickr member Torsten Reimer got a great, candid image of two people on a train in London in their own worlds but holding hands with his Sony RX100.
Posted in People, Photographers, Places on Mar 16th, 2013 No Comments »
Flickr member astolfi23 used his Sony RX1 to take this magnificent image of these two girls playing in the surf.
Posted in People, Photographers on Mar 10th, 2013 No Comments »
Ana Oliveira has produced a spectacular collection of diptychs: Identities. Before and after shots that show images of people in youth and then the same people in similar clothing and poses much later, as much as sixty years later. [via PetaPixel]
Posted in People, Photographers on Mar 9th, 2013 6 Comments »
Flickr member Lars.Jeppesen has taken a great image of two kids using iPads with his Sony RX1. I love the square framing and border. Very intimate shot.
Posted in People, Photographers, Places on Mar 7th, 2013 No Comments »
One of my long time flickr contacts, Maciej Dakowicz has captured a wonderful action street shot of kids in mid-air. I highly recommend checking out all of his work up on flickr, he’s a consistently excellent photographer.
Posted in Done, Landscape, People, Places, Sony RX100 on Feb 19th, 2013 No Comments »
West Cornwall, Connecticut. Loren and I snowshoed up to the Pine Swamp beaver pond a few days ago. It was extremely cold (about 12F) but there was enough snow and while it was post-holed in places it was snowshoeable with our rather aggressive MSR mountaineering snowshoes. This is a small dam downstream of the main [...]
Posted in Done, NPR, People, Photojournalism, Places on Feb 16th, 2013 No Comments »
Conflict Transforms Syrian English Teacher Into War Photographer Kelly McEvers and her NPR team have done a great job producing this story on Noor Kelze, a Syrian English teacher who has transformed herself into a photojournalist covering the Syrian conflict from the inside. This story is worth listening to, you don’t get the war sound [...]
Posted in Done, People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Stories, Video on Feb 11th, 2013 3 Comments »
The Vivian Maier Photography Project from Aaron Cahan on Vimeo. The post below is from 2011 but I’m bumping it up with the addition of this excellent video of the project to archive her work. Vivian Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer born in New York City. Although [...]
Posted in Our Place, People on Feb 9th, 2013 4 Comments »
I’d say we got between a foot and a foot and a half with three foot drifts in places. Going out to do the driveway… Oh boy.
Posted in New York, People, Photographers, Sony RX100 on Feb 2nd, 2013 1 Comment »
Flickr member Feldore has captured the fascination of two young Hassidim in New York watching break dancing. Brilliant.
Posted in People, Stories, Video on Jan 31st, 2013 6 Comments »
A portrait of master suit maker Martin Greenfield, a holocaust survivor who learned the art of tailoring while imprisoned in a concentration camp. This award-winning film was commissioned to celebrate his life and his commitment to his Brooklyn community. It has screened at film series around the world and on PBS. This excellent short documentary [...]
Posted in People, Photographers on Jan 20th, 2013 2 Comments »
The Ugly Truth London photographer Rut Mackel has put together a great collection of people holding a framed piece of glass and pressing their faces up against it to distort them. Scroll sideways. [via PetaPixel]
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