Posted in Adventure, Hiking, Trees on Feb 6th, 2012 5 Comments »
Salisbury, Connecticut. We always look forward to this beautiful stand of beech trees on the Appalachian Trail between Salisbury and Lion’s Head on the way to Bear Mountain.
Posted in Birds, Video on Feb 5th, 2012 1 Comment »
Amazing stills and video of snowy owls by Gerrit Vyn. [via The Kid Should See This]
Posted in Adventure, Canon PowerShot S100, Patterns on Feb 2nd, 2012 4 Comments »
Schaghticoke Ridge, Appalachian Trail, Kent, Connecticut. This foam whirlpool was on a stream crossing the Appalachian trail on the Schaghticoke Ridge section between Bull’s Bridge and Rt. 341. This is the largest stream on the hike which can be difficult to cross in high water.
Posted in Art and Design, Food, People, Places, Video on Feb 2nd, 2012 No Comments »
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is a series of short films produced and directed by Ben Wu and David Usui that explore the idea of home. The three films they have up now are excellent, each in its own way.
Posted in Adventure, Canon PowerShot S100, Hiking, Landscape, Places on Feb 1st, 2012 2 Comments »
Kaaterskill High Peak from Dibble’s Quarry Along the Pecoy Notch Trail on the way to Pecoy Notch just east of Sugarloaf Mountain in the Catskills. Kaaterskill High Peak is on the skyline. Dibble’s Quarry was mined for sidewalk slate used in New York City but over the years that it’s been part of a state [...]
Posted in Canon PowerShot S100, Hiking, Ice on Feb 1st, 2012 No Comments »
Now that I’m sensitized to ice crystals I’m looking for them everywhere. This day there was quite a bit of melt and the ice had more rounded edges.
Posted in Architecture, People, Places, Video on Feb 1st, 2012 4 Comments »
Michael Garnier talks about his treehouse collection and B&B resort. It’s in Takilma, Oregon. I love this guy, he’s the John Muir (How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive) of the treehouse world. This documentary takes a while but its well worth it. Garnier and his little Jack Russell terrier are treasures. [via Boing Boing]
Posted in Adventure, Canon PowerShot S100, Ice on Jan 30th, 2012 5 Comments »
Mt. Race, Massachusetts. All of these shots were taken in a single puddle to the side of the Race Brook Falls trail near the intersection with the Appalachian trail. This was taken in a small pool in Race Brook on the blue Race Brook Falls trail.
Posted in Adventure, Canon PowerShot S100, Hiking, Ice on Jan 30th, 2012 4 Comments »
Mt. Race, Massachusetts. All of these shots were taken in a single puddle on the Appalachian Trail on the north ridge of Mt. Race. I don’t know enough about ice crystals to understand why some puddles produce crystals and others don’t but when I find a patch of great crystals like this it’s like finding [...]
Posted in Events, Photography on Jan 29th, 2012 No Comments »
Postcards from the dawn of photography For the creative pioneers who embraced early photographic technology, producing “art” was very much a matter of trial and error. As Anne Havinga, Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh senior curator of photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, tells me, chemical treatments and exposure times were experimental and inexact; [...]
Posted in Canon PowerShot S100, Food, Objects on Jan 27th, 2012 5 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Great dinner with friends. The room was pretty dark and just a few candles were lighting the table and the light on Anne’s plate was inviting me to try out the S100 in low light.
Posted in Birds, Video on Jan 27th, 2012 3 Comments »
Common cranes fly over Venice, Italy. Amazing BBC footage. Zoom out, it’s worth it. [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Hiking, Places, Trees on Jan 26th, 2012 No Comments »
On Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts. Hiking down the Haley Farm Trail on the west side of Mt. Greylock we came across a dead black birch with huge mushrooms on it. Hiked out to the tree and shot straight up hoping to catch the mushrooms but instead got an interesting shot of the creepy decaying tree and [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Cartoons, Copyright, Ideas, Social Software on Jan 26th, 2012 No Comments »
SOPA and PIPA Notice that I didn’t reblog the image but instead linked back to the political cartoonist Daryl Cagle’s blog. I’m not making a statement here, I came close to reflagging the image with proper permission and attribution of course, but, I want Cagle to get the traffic, he’s the artist so best to [...]
Posted in Process, Time Lapse, Video on Jan 23rd, 2012 6 Comments »
Time Lapse – Rail Bridge Replacement, Cow Lane, Reading from Chris Wilkinson on Vimeo. Upper Cut Productions was commissioned by BAM Nuttall and Network Rail to film a rail bridge reconstruction project in Reading, during the Christmas period of 2011. 3 weather-proofed time lapse cameras were installed in various locations to capture the progress of [...]
Posted in Canon PowerShot S100, Places, Trees on Jan 21st, 2012 4 Comments »
Huntington Library Gardens, Pasadena, California. Went on an outing with my mother today. Decided to use S100 to shoot trees from below since this place has an amazing variety of spectacular and rare trees. I’m quite pleased with the way this small camera worked; I got a nice variety of decent images.
Posted in Photographers, Photojournalism on Jan 20th, 2012 No Comments »
Weegee’s Killer Decade The International Center of Photography has a show up Weegee: Murder is My Business that looks incredible. Weegee (Arthur Fellig) was a street photographer’s street photographer and photojournalist.
Posted in Photographers, Video on Jan 19th, 2012 No Comments »
Singer Patti Smith’s photographs on display But Smith is also an avid photographer and takes a camera on tour and whenever she travels. “Camera Solo” is the first museum exhibition of her Polaroid photographs at the Wadswoth Atheneum in Hartford Connecticut. It can be seen until February 19, 2012. Who knew she was also a [...]
Posted in Photographers, Trees on Jan 18th, 2012 No Comments »
Grant Simon Rogers knows how to shoot trees from below. Wow. [via Colossal]
Posted in Architecture, New York, Photographers on Jan 15th, 2012 6 Comments »
My long time flickr contact Mr. Inky has posted a spectacular black and white image of the Time Warner Center in New York.
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