Weegee’s Killer Decade The International Center of Photography has a show up Weegee: Murder is My Business that looks incredible. Weegee (Arthur Fellig) was a street photographer’s street photographer and photojournalist.
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Posted in Photographers, Video on Jan 19th, 2012 No Comments »
Singer Patti Smith’s photographs on display But Smith is also an avid photographer and takes a camera on tour and whenever she travels. “Camera Solo” is the first museum exhibition of her Polaroid photographs at the Wadswoth Atheneum in Hartford Connecticut. It can be seen until February 19, 2012. Who knew she was also a [...]
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Posted in Photographers, Trees on Jan 18th, 2012 No Comments »
Grant Simon Rogers knows how to shoot trees from below. Wow. [via Colossal]
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My long time flickr contact Mr. Inky has posted a spectacular black and white image of the Time Warner Center in New York.
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Posted in Photographers on Jan 14th, 2012 No Comments »
My long time Japanese flickr contact minato has posted a nice happy new year grid of some of her images.
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This is an excellent video of both portraits and behind the scenes process of how photographer Peter Hapak put together his collection for an issue of Time Magazine. Reminds me of Irving Penn’s traveling studio (below): [via PetaPixel]
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My longtime flickr contact Bill Eaton caught a group of white ibises resting on a tree at sunrise. Wow.
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Happy at 100 Wonderful portraits of centenarians by Karsten Thormaehlen.
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My longtime flickr contact minato has posted a wonderful image of ornamental maple leaves with iPhone with ornamental maple leaves in Japan.
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I’ve been following Scott Schuman’s Sartorialist blog for a while. This video shows him shooting in Tokyo. At a glance his blog and the video might look like simple documentary of street fashion of the upwardly mobile but in fact if you follow it for a while it’s like watching live, current urban anthropology. He [...]
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Afghanistan – touch down in flight from Augustin Pictures on Vimeo. Lukas and Salome Augustin have made a beautiful portrait of Afghanistan. Note that this was shot with Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 7D cameras and a variety of Canon lenses. Zoom it full screen and enjoy. [via Mamen Saura]
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My flickr contact Julian has posted a spectacular monochrome landscape.
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Posted in Cats, Photographers on Nov 9th, 2011 2 Comments »
Flickr photographer angeloangelo’ caught an amazing image of his cat tossing a mouse. What a capture. He has an excellent wild and domestic (animals) set too.
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My friend Mamen Saura gave a talk today to an art class at my wife’s school: The Gunnery. One of the students, Miriam is from Spain and since Mamen is originally from Spain and they’re both photographers, they hit it off.
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My friend Mamen shooting a macro of ice on the north face of Bear Mountain.
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Flickr user Ewald Mario Bauer has assembled a number of flickr galleries which are collections of images that others have taken and allowed to be included in the galleries of other flickr members. Ewald Mario Bauer’s Flickr Galleries Note the page numbering on the bottom, there are 14 pages of them. Frankly, I never looked [...]
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Carli Davidson Check out her Shake set, her Pets with Disabilities set, and the extra set of the two legged dog Ramen Noodle. Carli is a spectacular photographer, these animal images are some of the best I’ve ever seen and her series on pets with disabilities is both beautiful and tender at the same time. [...]
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Be an Outdoors Person The landscape photographer Elizabeth Carmel has a nice piece in the current issue of Outdoor Photographer on improving your outdoors skills and the shape you’re is in so you can get to places not easily accessible otherwise. I think her advice is excellent for everyone, not just landscape and nature photographers. [...]
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Road Trip: Night Skies and Long Days National Geographic Photographer Jim Richardson takes a long road trip across the USA in search of examples of “light pollution.” Next day I would be driving on with thousands of miles ahead of me. I had a trunk full of gear and my iPod loaded with music and [...]
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Pipe Plant from Sasha Aleksandrov on Vimeo. This is incredible time lapse movie of the painting (in classic Russian Constructivist style) of an old Soviet era pipe plant in Russia. Read the Colossal post for some stills and more info on how photographer Sasha Aleksandrov did it.
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