Richard's Notes

Dogs and sleds
The Big Picture has a great collection of dog sledding images from various parts of the world.

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With the Push of the iPad, a Photograph Goes Global
Pyramid Lake (at Night), a 2004 photo by Richard Misrach is one of the included desktop photos on the iPad and it was used during the iPad introduction event. It’s a spectacular image and no doubt Apple went through many to get to this one. Congratulations [...]

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Bull’s Bridge to Kent, Connecticut. Dave and I hiked a rugged 7.5 mile stretch of the Appalachian Trail from Bull’s Bridge to Kent. There was 3" to a foot of snow on the ground and it was rough going although it’s one of the most beautiful hikes I’ve done yet.
It took us about 5.5 hours [...]

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Washington, Connecticut. Looking down at the Shepaug River from Steep Rock. David, Loren and I did an eight mile hike in Steep Rock the other day just to revisit the place that got us started hiking. Great day, lots of nice scenery and it was quite cold. Still, nothing like today where the high here [...]

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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 [...]

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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 site [...]

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Kent, Connecticut. My hiking buddies are each away and I needed to get out of the house so I hiked up on the Appalachian Trail north of Kent and this image is taken just above St. John’s Ledges where I did some rock climbing 20 years ago. The Housatonic River is in the valley behind [...]

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100 days in Glacier National Park
This summer, Glacier Park Magazine editor Chris Peterson undertook a photographic project to take photos of Montana’s Glacier National Park over 100 consecutive days, starting on May 1, 2009, for a traveling photo show in 2010 to commemorate Glacier’s Centennial. He used a mix of film and digital cameras, including [...]

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Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut. David and Loren hiked north on the Appalachian Trail from Kent to Cornwall Bridge leaving a car in Kent. I drove to Cornwall Bridge and hiked south to meet them and then we doubled back and I drove them to their car. I was on my own so brought bigger camera gear [...]

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Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut. The Housatonic River is right behind me as I take this and these are the southern Berkshire Mountains. This stretch of the AT is the longest stretch along a river on it’s entire 2000 mile run, about eight miles on the west bank of the Housatonic. We only did about six miles [...]

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My long time flickr contact rosemary* remains the queen of bokeh with this shot of ornamental maple leaves with a great blurred background. Notice she’s using a Canon 5D with a Zeiss 50mm f/1.4 lens.

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Washington, Connecticut. Took a long walk through Steep Rock Preserve, continuing down to Judd’s Bridge in Roxbury, then back on the other side. Fall colors were spectacular. One of our longest walks yet in this area.

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NY Times Lens: Mitch Epstein’s Power.
Mitch Epstein has taken his 8-by-10 view camera across the United States to document the energy needed to support the American way of life. Though he says he did not start out with an ideological agenda, Mr. Epstein offers a quiet but unsettling view of 21st-century America’s dependency on electrical [...]

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The Big Picture: Autumn scenes.
Spectacular fall photography. Dang, that last picture is killer but so are all of them. I guess I’ll bring my camera up to Greylock this weekend.

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National Parks And The Power Of A Photo
NPR’s Picture Show has a nice collection of images from landscape photographer Ian Shive.
You can also see his images at his web site: Ian Shive Photography.

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The unearthly beauty of Antelope Canyon
A wonderful collection of images of Arizona’s Antelope Canyon from various flickr photographers.
[via Justin Blanton]

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How to Publish a Magazine in a Day and a Half
Derek Powazek takes us step by step through having an idea, collecting content, designing a magazine and publishing and distributing it.

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New England Foliage Map
Not sure how I feel about this map as it brings “leaf peepers” to our neighborhood in droves. Still, useful for photographers who want to capture various kinds of color.

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Washington, Connecticut. Gary and I stopped on our way to the bridge to take a shot of the Shepaug River and the far bank in almost complete darkness. Long (30 second) exposure makes for some still water although the water was quite still on this bend anyway.

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Washington, Connecticut. This was shot in early morning from a swinging suspension bridge, handheld with a 1.3 second exposure so things aren’t very sharp here.
All of that said, the river and air were calm in the early morning and there was quite a bit of ground fog because of heavy rain the night before. It [...]

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