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 [...]
Posted in Fireworks, Photo Printing, Photo Sites, SSD (solid state drive) on Jan 7th, 2011 No Comments »
I’ve been meaning to do another MagCloud project and finally got around to it. Having the SSD drive in my MacBook Pro helped with the heavy lifting of picture editing in Lightroom and layout and design in Pages. This issue of Wabi Sabi is my collection of images “fireworks from below” shot in 2008 on [...]
Posted in Macro, Photo Sites, Photography on Oct 20th, 2010 No Comments »
Small Worlds The Nikon International Small World Photomicrography Competition recently announced its list of winners for 2010. The competition began in 1974 as a means to recognize and applaud the efforts of those involved with photography through the light microscope. Peering into the small worlds of animal, plants and minerals using many techniques and different [...]
Posted in Opinion, Photo Sites, Photojournalism on Oct 19th, 2010 No Comments »
Iconic Photos The images are, well, iconic for sure and the site author is a great curator of these types of images. But, more than that, he’s an articulate and excellent commentator on the images, their place in history, and how history has treated them. I haven’t been through the entire site yet, it will [...]
Posted in Old Photos, Photo Sites, Photographers, Places on Jun 14th, 2010 3 Comments »
Reflections of Paris The photographer Pierre Yves-Petit, who called himself “Yvon,” wandered the streets of Paris between the world wars looking for the moment when the shifting light and clouds would perfectly reveal the city’s ephemeral, iconic beauty. The dramatic images of the city and its people that he made during those years would become [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Photojournalism, Places on Apr 30th, 2010 1 Comment »
Looking back at the Vietnam War The Vietnam War ended 35 years ago today. This is an amazing collection of images including the most famous ones.
Posted in People, Photo Sites, Photographers on Apr 29th, 2010 No Comments »
Jump with Philippe Halsman Fantastic collection of images by the the late photographer Phillipe Halsman. There is a show of Halsman’s Jump series on right now at the Laurence MIller Gallery in New York. including the most famous image in the collection of Salvador Dali, cats, a chair, and water all in mid-air. Laurence MIller [...]
Posted in Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, People, Photo Sites, Photographers on Apr 25th, 2010 1 Comment »
My good friend Mamen Saura has put up her first photo website and it’s absolutely stunning. Check it out: A Perspective of the World. She’s one of the photographers involved with our Wabi Sabi magazine project and her work can also be seen on Flickr.
Posted in Adventure, Photo Sites, Photographers, Places on Apr 20th, 2010 No Comments »
Shuttle Discovery’s 15-day mission to the space station This is a particularly amazing set of images of the ISS, Shuttle, and astronauts working in space. Wow.
Posted in People, Photo Sites, Social Software on Apr 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
Heather Champ is leaving flickr to start a web consultancy with her husband, Derek Powazek. Heather took the spirit of flickr co-founders Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake and developed it into a worldwide community. Job well done Heather. You will be missed.
Posted in Art and Design, Photo Sites, Photographers on Mar 28th, 2010 No Comments »
Hydrology: Visions of Ice Wonderful abstractions of ice on a frozen lake, photographed at night with long exposures to avoid glare. Fantastic work.
Posted in Animals, Photo Sites, Places on Feb 1st, 2010 6 Comments »
Japanese Macaque monkeys The Frame has a wonderful collection of images of macaque monkeys in Japan. Love the last few images that show all the photographers around the hot springs. Fantastic.
Posted in Photo Sites on Jan 9th, 2010 No Comments »
Daylight Magazine Check out their monthly multimedia slide shows. There are some real gems in this collection. [via lens culture]
Posted in Photo Sites, Photographers, Stories on Jan 6th, 2010 1 Comment »
Life before your eyes A Pictory feature on growing up and growing old. Pictory is combining images and captions (picture – story) to give more context to both images and words. It looks like a successful site, worth following.
Posted in Photo Sites, Places on Dec 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Photo Journal: Dec. 20- Dec. 24 Image #4 (kids eating with birds in Moscow) is wonderful.
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