Posted in Birds, Photographers, Places on Mar 13th, 2010 No Comments »
An Orange breasted Sunbird feeds on Cape Honeysuckle at the top of Table Mountain. The bright colours in the distance is the sun on the roof tops of Cape Town.
My long time flickr contact Michael Greenwood hit the jackpot with this one.
Posted in People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places on Feb 25th, 2010 No Comments »
NY Times Lens: Syria Changes, to a Point
Ed Kashi’s images of daily life in modern Syria are incredible.
Do you like going to Syria?
It’s a funny thing. I do like the idea of going there. There are moments where I actually like being there. But in general, I find it to be a bit of a [...]
Posted in Creatures, Landscape, Photography, Places on Feb 9th, 2010 No Comments »
Dogs and sleds
The Big Picture has a great collection of dog sledding images from various parts of the world.
Posted in Creatures, Photo Sites, Places on Feb 1st, 2010 5 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 Architecture, Places on Jan 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California. I’m pretty taken with the rotunda of the entrance pavilion of the Getty Center. There’s something about the lines, the light, and the shapes. Can’t help myself.
Posted in Art and Design, People, Places on Jan 23rd, 2010 4 Comments »
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California. Alberto Giacometti is one of my mother’s favorite artists. Giacometti was 14 when my now 94 year old mother was born and this piece was probably cast around the time I was born.
Posted in People, Photojournalism, Places on Jan 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
Kumbh Mela festival
Hundreds of thousands of devotees bathed in the icy waters of the Ganges river last week as a months-long Hindu festival expected to attract more than 10 million people kicked off in one of northern India’s holiest cities. Men, women and children entered the fast-moving waters of the river in a holy ritual [...]
Posted in Photographers, Places, Video on Jan 17th, 2010 No Comments »
Egypt / Lebanon Montage from Khalid Mohtaseb on Vimeo.
Beautiful video shot with Canon 5D MK II by Khalid Mohtaseb. I recommend zooming out to full screen, the quality is spectacular.
Posted in Objects, Places on Jan 13th, 2010 5 Comments »
New York City. A group of us had dinner in New York over the Holidays and Gary and I spent a considerable amount of time attempting to photograph this glass of water with a candle behind it. It was a lot of fun and while my wife and our other friends rolled their eyes and [...]
Posted in Architecture, Places on Jan 12th, 2010 4 Comments »
New York City. This image is from a trip to New York I made with my friend Gary over the Holidays.
If memory serves, Madison Square Garden is a block to my right. Gary and I spent a good twenty minutes photographing the flags in front of this building. The wind was just right to blow [...]
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.
Posted in Photo Sites, Photographers, Places on Dec 17th, 2009 11 Comments »
Winter Weather
The Frame, the Sacramento Bee’s photoblog has a spectacular collection of winter images. The first two alone make the collection.
Posted in Ideas, People, Places, Politics, Video on Dec 8th, 2009 No Comments »
TED India: Shashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue “soft” power
Great talk, beautifully delivered.
Posted in Photojournalism, Places, Politics on Dec 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
On Assignment: Afghanistan in Free Fall
Moises Samen’s incredible black and white images of rural Afghanistan in distress.
Posted in Photographers, Places, Time Lapse on Dec 1st, 2009 4 Comments »
Timelapse movie: The Alps — part II (night) from Michael Rissi on Vimeo.
Zoom this out full screen. Enjoy. Wow.
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Posted in Hiking, Landscape, Places on Nov 29th, 2009 4 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, Landscape, Places on Nov 25th, 2009 6 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Creativity, Ideas, People, Places on Nov 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Absolutely incredible behind the scenes glimpse of a genius’s process. Zoom it out, full screen, you will not regret it.
[via Ken O'Connell]
Posted in Landscape, Photographers, Places, Trees on Nov 23rd, 2009 3 Comments »
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.
Posted in Objects, Places, Shadows and reflections on Nov 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. It was so dark in the restaurant all I could do was shoot the shadow of me holding the camera shooting the shadow of me holding the camera.
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