Richard’s Notes

My flickr contact Steve Korn shot this at the University of Washington for the Chamber Dance Company. Incredible.

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My flickr contact Lenny nails a blue dasher dragonfly with his big lens and extender. An absolutely amazing image, congratulations Lenny.

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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.

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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 [...]

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Emily and Dan’s wedding pictures
They were shot by The Wiebners, a professional photography husband and wife team (I think although I can’t really tell). The images are fantastic, there’s a lot to learn from this set.
[via Longboard]

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palko72 has some of the best bird photography I’ve seen on flickr in a while. He has a very long lens (600mm) which certainly helps but still, you have to aim it and know when to shoot. He’s very good as this shot demonstrates.

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The Smithsonian Institution has been busy scanning photographs and they have two new sets on flickr:
Portraits of Artists
Portraits of Scientists and Inventors
Great stuff, wow.

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Interview with Alan Taylor, Creator of Boston Globe’s The Big Picture
I like the rationale. If you’ve missed the site, here it is: The Big Picture
[via Daring Fireball]

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An enourmous collection of New York City Images.
Note part way through shots by Weegee, Feininger, Kertesz and more. All of the imags are great and there are some famous ones sprinkled in.
[via kottke.org]

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The Big Picture does it again: Daily Life in Sadr City, Iraq.
When you combine great photography with scale you get something very special. These images come closer than live video to giving the feeling that one is there.

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Bradley Gibson has a very nice collection of images presented with AutoViewer.
The presentation is nice and the images are superb.
[via Dale Allyn]

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The Big Picture has another great set of high quality images of the flooding in the miswest US: Mississippi Floodwaters in Iowa.
Note: I would not want to carry my cat down a flooded street. She’d puncture my chest and claw it to a bloody mess.

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Slate has a wonderful collection of images of the music scene of 1968: Music in ‘68.

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The Big Picture has yet another incredible collection: Faces of Sudan.
Note to photographers: check the light on the second image (and others like it). Lots to be learned from these images. Never be disapointed in a cloudy sky, especially when there is sun out illuminating your subject. It’s the perfect setup for subject isolation, even [...]

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Slate has a great collection of Magnum father and child pictures up for Father’s Day (tomorrow). Note the photographers and captions, lower left. Great bunch.

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David Alan Harvey has a great essay up at his site: f/8 and be there.
so many photographers have the hardest time facing the fact that they simply must just “get out the door”…whether they go next door or around the world makes no difference at all….it does not matter where the “there” is, but you [...]

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The Big Picture is a wonderful new addition to boston.com that takes the lead in diplaying excellent images in large enough sizes so that one can really feel the impact of high end photography.
More on the rationale on Alan Taylor, the project coordinator’s blog: New Project: The Big Picture.
My mind is working… my photo site [...]

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Elizabeth Carmel, Fine Art Photography.
Spectacular work. Difficult to navigate web site but worth poking around. Prints are expensive but looking is free. Have fun.
[via Dale Allyn]

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Kentucky Yard Sale Yields a Trove of Weegee Images
The letters, along with 210 vintage black-and-white photographic prints, were found in 2003 in a zebra-stripe trunk that was bought at a yard sale in Kentucky by two Indiana women who were on their way back from a camping trip. One of the women simply liked the [...]

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Flying with Fish is Steven Frischling’s blog on traveling as a professional photographer. Steven is extremely successful as both a photographer and, it seems, as a blogger. Fun to poke around the site, as well as his professional site, FishFoto.
[via Dale Allyn]

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