Posted in Photo Sites, Social Software, Stories on Jan 13th, 2012 3 Comments »
Pictory: Something to write home about There’s a new issue of Pictory out and it’s great. Some day I’m going to submit things to this most excellent photo site (I keep saying that and not doing it for some reason). [via Coudal Partners]
Posted in Photo Sites, Photojournalism on Dec 7th, 2011 1 Comment »
The Year in Photos Part 1 and Part 2 Alan Taylor has put together an amazing collection of images that document a tough year on planet earth. Part 3 coming tomorrow.
Posted in Collections, iPhone Photography, People, Photo Sites, Social Software on Oct 28th, 2011 No Comments »
1000memories A free social site for organizing old family photographs and building relationships between them. It even has a family tree/genealogy component that allows you to build familial relationships into the stored images. There’s an iPhone app called ShoeBox for scanning/photographing and organizing content for 1000memories. This actually looks pretty good and I might give [...]
Posted in Events, Photo Sites, Photojournalism on Oct 16th, 2011 6 Comments »
World War II: The Holocaust More of Alan Taylor’s excellent collection of World War II in Photos. Many of us have seen numerous collections of photographic documentation of Nazi Germany’s “final solution” of concentration death camps and have little interest in seeing more. Alan Taylor is an excellent photo editor and has put together a [...]
Posted in Macro, Photo Sites, Photography on Oct 6th, 2011 No Comments »
Nikon Small World 2011 Alan Taylor over at the Atlantic has put together another excellent collection of images. Many of these are made by attaching DSLRs to microscopes although a few look to have been made with regular macro lenses. Spectacular images of a world within our world. [via Gary Sharp]
Posted in Events, Photo Sites, Photojournalism, Places on Sep 26th, 2011 No Comments »
World War II: The Pacific Islands Alan Taylor at The Atlantic puts together another great collection in his ongoing series on World War II in Photos. This one is particularly good, especially image #42 of the invasion of Okinawa.
Posted in Old Photos, Photo Sites, Places on Aug 1st, 2011 2 Comments »
American Cities Pre-1950 The Denver Post photo archive has put together a wonderful collection of old images of American Cities. Really makes one appreciate how fast we’ve constructed the United State (for good and for bad). [via Scott James]
Posted in Old Photos, People, Photo Sites, Social Software on Jun 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
I continue to track (via RSS) the site My Parents Were Awesome and just saw a great one: Dan and Francesca Fantastic shot. Love that car and her shoes. Wow.
Posted in Opinion, Photo Sites, Social Software on May 27th, 2011 No Comments »
Your photos and data on Flickr flickr is a popular online photo sharing community which millions of people the world over use. I’ve been using flickr to host images I embed in this site as well as as a community to meet and connect with other photographers since 2004. Flickr was one of the first [...]
Posted in Old Photos, People, Photo Sites on May 26th, 2011 1 Comment »
Rare photos of famous people Wow, what a fantastic collection. Amazing. Here’s a fun one of George Clooney. [via Kottke.org]
Posted in Animals, Photo Sites on May 14th, 2011 2 Comments »
The Big Picture has a wonderful collection of Dogs in the news, everything from bomb-sniffing military dogs to affected by floods and other disasters.
Posted in Events, People, Photo Sites, Photojournalism, Places on Apr 5th, 2011 No Comments »
Cricket passion This spectacular collection of images taken during the recent cricket world cup in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka reminds me of a mashup of Slumdog Millionaire and Lagaan.
Posted in Photo Sites, Photojournalism on Mar 20th, 2011 No Comments »
TIME LightBox New photoblog from TIME magazine. Looks good and notice it has a view full screen button on the top series.
Posted in Photo Sites, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places on Mar 16th, 2011 No Comments »
Daniel Beltra I just finished reading Raffi Khatchadourian’s disturbing piece The Gulf War in The New Yorker and the front illustration is a spectacular aerial shot of a ship floating on the large BP Gulf oil spill taken by photojournalist Daniel Beltra. Beltra’s site doesn’t allow me to link to that particular photograph but you [...]
Posted in Copyright, Photo Sites, Photographers, Stories, Video on Mar 9th, 2011 3 Comments »
The Stolen Scream: A Story About Noam Galai from FStoppers on Vimeo. About two years after publishing photos of myself screaming on the Flickr, I discovered that my face was ‘for sale’ in several stores around the world, as well as on the Web and spotted it in places like Spain, Iran, Mexico, England and [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Social Software on Feb 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
What happens after Yahoo acquires you But in 2008, co-founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield both left the company. In 2009, many engineers from the service were laid off or left on their own. Meanwhile, Facebook kept taking a growing share of photo traffic. Yahoo’s top executives barely mentioned Flickr publicly (and few of them [...]
Posted in People, Photo Sites, Photographers, Video on Feb 19th, 2011 2 Comments »
Thrush from Gabriel Bisset-Smith on Vimeo. Thrush is a four minute film directed by Gabriel Bisset-Smith and Graham Turner that covers a relationship from start to finish in still photographs with excellent narration. It’s a bit stylized but it’s quite good, worth watching full screen. [via PetaPixel]
Posted in People, Photo Sites, Places on Feb 18th, 2011 No Comments »
Scavenging to survive in India’s belt of fire The Frame’s got a great feature on villagers scavenging for coal in Bokapahari, India.
Posted in iPhone, Photo Sites, Social Software on Feb 14th, 2011 No Comments »
Cooliris’ New LiveShare App Refocuses on Photo-Sharing cooliris’s new LiveShare app: Create group photo streams with friends on the fly, and see everyone’s photos all in one place, in real-time. It’s group photo sharing made simple. I wish them luck (I know them) but they’re entering a market/space that’s already overcrowded and needs some pruning.
Posted in Photo Sites, Social Software on Jan 31st, 2011 6 Comments »
At Flickr, Fending Off Rumors and Facebook Although Flickr is well known and still widely used, its traffic is shrinking. Unique visitors to Flickr in the United States fell 16 percent, to 21.3 million, in December compared with a year earlier, according to comScore. Meanwhile, for that same time frame, use of Facebook’s photo features [...]
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