Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on May 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Garden. This fern has an interesting embossment on it that reminds me of the stitching on a pair of jeans. I wonder what purpose the embossment serves on the leaf structurally. Could it be like the "creases" in the sheet metal of car bodies, put in to give those large expanses [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on May 29th, 2008 7 Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Gardens. The variety of plants in the Huntington herb garden is mind boggling. One has to look closely as they’re growing on top of one another but an hour there will turn up some wild stuff, like this spiny meteorite.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on May 28th, 2008 6 Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Gardens. Out of all of the places to photograph at this photographer’s paradise, two places should not be missed: the herb garden where this was taken and the desert garden with all the cacti and succulents.
While most of the tourists are off photographing roses you can have both of of these [...]
Posted in Ideas, People, Places on May 26th, 2008 No Comments »
The LA Times had an interesting piece this morning: Thousands Oaks teenager prepares to sail solo around the world.
When I was Zac’s age I could hardly imagine going to college let alone sailing solo around the world. Go Zac.
For more on this check out his web site where you can track his voyage: Zac Sunderland.
Posted in People, Places on May 18th, 2008 2 Comments »
Life in Soviet Russia: Private Moments
This is an incredible collection that spans years, classes, age groups, and types of photography. The collection is assembled from the work of many photographers.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Photography, Places on May 8th, 2008 2 Comments »
National Geographic Channel Strikes Again
Wow, these are some killer images. I like them all.
[via Digg]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photographers, Places on May 1st, 2008 3 Comments »
Fantastic aerial photography of Africa by Michael Poliza: Eyes Over Africa.
[via Dale Allyn]
J Street
J Street was founded to promote meaningful American leadership to end the Arab-Israeli and Palestinian-Israel conflicts peacefully and diplomatically. We support a new direction for American policy in the Middle East and a broad public and policy debate about the U.S. role in the region.
One of the last great writers at Salon.com, Gary [...]
Posted in Music, People, Places on Apr 27th, 2008 13 Comments »
Milton Hall, Milton, Connecticut. Bill and Gordon warming up before the show. Bill is a part time song writer and folk musician and a neighbor of ours here in Warren. Gordon is a professional studio musician who plays sessions and on tour with the big boys who’s been a friend of Bill’s for years. He’s [...]
Posted in Landscape, Photographers, Places, Stories on Apr 27th, 2008 No Comments »
What Adams Saw Through His Lens
Don’t miss the interactive feature: Ansel Adams’s Yosemite narrated by Andrea G. Stillman, his former assistant. The narration over the slide show of his images is superb.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Landscape, Places on Apr 23rd, 2008 7 Comments »
East Litchfield, Connecticut. For each of the twenty years I’ve lived in this area I’ve been going to see the daffodils on a farm in East Litchfield. There are acres of them between rock walls in various fields. Flowers like this on this scale is not something you see every day. Now that I’ve been [...]
Posted in Ideas, Places, Tech Stuff, Video on Apr 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
Angeles Saura has a nice collection of videos on the making of a Sony Bravia Commercial on color.
One (balls) was shot in San Francisco, the other (paint) was shot in Glasgow.
It’s quite amazing how much goes into making a very short but dramatic commercial. The music and sound is wonderful, the entire process is well [...]
Posted in Photo Resources, Places on Apr 15th, 2008 1 Comment »
National Geographic On Assignment
Interesting use of TypePad (hosted blog engine) to post information about National Geographic photographers and writers on the road. Great pictures and stories.
[via Gary Sharp]
Posted in Landscape, Photographers, Places on Apr 8th, 2008 2 Comments »
Vincent Laforet looks at Americans commuting using a tilt shift lens: The Long Way There.
Many photographers have done similar things, perspective shift and aperture making objects look toy-like. This example is particular striking and well done.
[via kottke.org]
Posted in People, Places, Yoga on Apr 2nd, 2008 2 Comments »
Kansas City, Missouri. A year ago I did a photo shoot for my friend (almost a niece*) Emily Darling who owns, runs and teaches at Darling Yoga.
Emily is the real deal: a spectacular yoga teacher and practitioner with an open, warm heart and gentle touch. She really is a special person.
What’s interesting about Emily is [...]
Posted in Ideas, Places, Travel on Apr 1st, 2008 No Comments »
What Every American Should Know About the Middle East
I must say, I’m pretty well read but there were a few things in this list I did not know. A quick useful read. What’s amazing is how few Americans know much of this stuff yet think they know enough to have an educated opinion on the [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Architecture, Photo Resources, Places on Mar 31st, 2008 No Comments »
A great flickr slide show of HDR images of Chicago.
This is a terrific collection of HDR (high dynamic range) images of Chicago. HDR pushes photograhpy in a fascinating way and while I don’t do it (currently) I love looking at it. Pushing photography toward painting really appeals to me, either with HDR, blur, or other [...]
Posted in Architecture, Places on Mar 18th, 2008 6 Comments »
New York City. I have to admit, a room high up in this tower would afford incredible views of Central Park and the city. For us regular folks the tower itself will have to be the view.
I have an idea: why don’t a bunch of us photographers get together and rent a room high up [...]
Posted in Architecture, Places on Mar 18th, 2008 2 Comments »
New York City. I was with some friends from Denmark who are Beatles fans so we walked up Central Park West to The Dakota to pay tribute to John Lennon. As we worked our way through the park, aiming toward 5th Avenue and 59th Street we came upon this view looking southwest toward Columbus Circle. [...]
Posted in Landscape, Places on Mar 14th, 2008 6 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. Steep Rock Reservation. The Shepaug river is just over the near trees in what will grow into a ravine off the left edge of this image. Calling this a canyon is sort of like calling the hills around here mountains. Still, it’s a beautiful spot and close enough to my house that I [...]
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