Posted in Aerial Photography, Photo Sites, Places on Jul 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
The Big Picture strikes gold again with Man on the Moon, Future and Past.
As someone who watched all of the Apollo moon landings on television and watched Apollo 13, the movie more times than I care to admit, I guess you could call me interested. These images are fantastic.
Posted in People, Photographers on Jul 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
My flickr contact Steve Korn shot this at the University of Washington for the Chamber Dance Company. Incredible.
Posted in Creatures, Photographers on Jul 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
My flickr contact Lenny nails a blue dasher dragonfly with his big lens and extender. An absolutely amazing image, congratulations Lenny.
Posted in Opinion, Photo Gear on Jul 2nd, 2008 5 Comments »
Michael Reichmann at Luminous Landscape has Some Initial Thoughts on The Nikon D700 and the entire DSLR landscape. Interesting reading for Canon 5D users as well as any Canon DSLR users.
The one piece of the equation Michael leaves out is lenses. It is argued that Canon has a wider range of high end lenses than [...]
Posted in Landscape on Jul 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. I guess I have an urge to express my inner Andrew Wyeth with minimalist shots like this.
I like this hay field because I knew it when it was a corn field and have watched it for many years now.
Posted in Landscape on Jul 1st, 2008 2 Comments »
New Preston, Connecticut. It was so muggy today I felt like I was shooting through mist but I walked up here to scout out this location for shooting the 4th of July fireworks this friday night. Got totally soaked in sweat. Ugh.
The fireworks will come from the first point just left of the center of [...]
Posted in Landscape, Photographers, Places on Jul 1st, 2008 2 Comments »
My flickr contact psilver took and processed a very nice image of Niagra Falls. Notice the people in the upper left. Nice addition for scale.
Posted in Photo Gear, Photo Resources, Places on Jul 1st, 2008 No Comments »
WIRED took a trip to Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin to see their Gallery of Sawn-In-Half Cameras.
[via Steve Splonskowski]
Posted in Landscape, Places on Jun 30th, 2008 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. My friend Zarinna called again this morning to tell me the fog and morning mist on the Shepaug Reservoir was incredible. We had a thunderstorm last night and it dawned hot, perfect for morning evaporation and burnoff. By the time I got coffee made, got gear packed up and drove over I’d missed [...]
Posted in Birds, Our Place on Jun 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I decided to see if I could stand six feet away from this tube feeder for long enough for birds to ignore me and come in and eat. It took two minutes for this chickadee to swoop in and pick up a seed.
Posted in Opinion, Photo Gear, Photo Printing, Photo Resources on Jun 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Save Polaroid
On February 8, 2008, Polaroid Corporation announced that it will discontinue production of all instant film. This site will document the aftermath of this announcement and will serve as a home-base for the effort to convince another company to begin producing the cherished technology that Polaroid has so carelessly abandoned.
This site is not about [...]
Posted in Yoga Photographs on Jun 28th, 2008 No Comments »
New Preston, Connecticut. Most Saturday mornings I try to get a few shots of my wife Anne warming up before our yoga class. Nothing formal, no one else in the room, just practice for me and she’s a willing, unselfconscious subject. Most of the time I throw these shots out, occasionally I keep a few [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Our Place on Jun 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I feel like this daisy looks: wilted in the humidity. It’s hard to find the energy to get out and shoot when the dog days come, and it’s not even August yet.
Posted in Photo Resources on Jun 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Natalie Norton demonstrates How to Reduce Camera Shake. Useful.
[via Steve Splonskowski]
Posted in People, Photographers, Politics on Jun 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
A Conversation With Barack Obama
I post this because the image, taken by Peter Yang, shows Obama sitting at a couple of (15″?) MacBook Pros.
Now, if he’s got files and folders on his desktop arranged like a penis we’re trouble. Oh, right, that was a windows machine. Whew, no Mac users keep that many files and [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Gear, Tech Stuff on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
State of the Art: When Your Camera Knows Where You Are
When I first read about this wifi card I thought it was a gimmick but the last part of this article, on geotragging is brilliant. Wireless transfer is not for DSLRs that make huge RAW files but the geotagging does sound like it would be [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Gear, Video on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Canon EOS Rebel XSi Commercial
Watch the commercial, then watch the making of it behind the scenes. Great use of still photography in a commerical with lots of movement and emotion.
[via Inside Lightroom]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Resources on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
flickr has teamed up with the Library of Congress, the Powerhouse Museum Collection, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, and Bibliothèque de Toulouse to start building a public archive of photographs called flickr Commons. Unlike private collections like Getty Images or The Bettman Archive, flickr Commons is open for anyone for any use.
There [...]
Posted in Landscape, Places on Jun 24th, 2008 6 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. I took a walk in the Steep Rock Preserve today and found a new path that led me into a deep forest with a lot of blooming mountain laurel. It was cloudy as I started but just as I entered the densest part of the forest the sun broke through and lit up [...]
Posted in Photo Gear, Travel on Jun 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Steven Frischling reviews The Mountainsmith Correspondent rolling camera bag. Looks great.
[via Gary Sharp]
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