Posted in Adventure, Aerial Photography, Architecture, Photographers, Places on Dec 26th, 2010 2 Comments »
Professional photographer Joe McNally gets to the top of the beacon mast on top of the Empire State Building to get a shot.
Posted in Architecture, Places on Dec 22nd, 2010 7 Comments »
New York City. I don’t know if this building was standing pre-9/11 or was built later but it reminds me of the old Word Trade Center buildings in its outer skin.
Posted in Architecture, Events, Places on Dec 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
New York City. A group of us went into New York yesterday and one person wanted to see ground zero. I must say that besides helping a friend move out from Battery Park City right after 9/11 I’d not been to the site. it’s a fascinating thing to see with an incredible amount of construction [...]
Posted in Photographers, Places, Trees on Dec 13th, 2010 No Comments »
My flickr contact Jun has produced a wonderful image of trees and sky with holiday lights in Japan. Fantastic.
Posted in iPhone Photography, Photographers, Places on Dec 12th, 2010 No Comments »
My flickr contact minato continues to do great things with her iPhone’s camera.
Posted in Audio, Ideas, NPR, Places on Dec 10th, 2010 No Comments »
The Island of Stone Money Fascinating NPR Planet Money piece on the island of Yap in the Pacific and the evolution of their use of large stones as money.
Posted in iPhone, iPhone Photography, Patterns, Photography, Places on Dec 4th, 2010 1 Comment »
United Terminal, LAX. I was inspired by all of the great iPhone photography I’ve been seeing. This is nothing fancy, just a front camera shot of tiles and a curve in a ceiling with light. With no experience pre-visualizing these types of images with an iPhone this is a shot in the dark, so to [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Photographers, Places on Dec 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
Cowboys And Cameras: Nat Geo Photographer’s Five-Decade Retrospective The image: Girls running home, France from 1967 is worth following the above link for alone. Wow, incredible image and as is said in the piece, very painterly. Allard has been photographing for nearly 50 years, many of them devoted to the pages of National Geographic. Actually, [...]
Posted in Photographers, Places, Video on Dec 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
Minnesota Photographer Soth Finds Beauty in the Unexpected The PBS NewsHour did a piece last night on the photographer Alec Soth who has a large retrospective show up at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. I’m not a huge fan of Soth’s work but it’s wonderful to hear him talk about what this show means [...]
Posted in Movies, Places, Studio Photography on Nov 24th, 2010 No Comments »
LaPorte, Indiana Trailer from Joe Beshenkovsky & Jason Bitner on Vimeo. My wife’s a Hoosier (from the Evansville at the other end of the state) but this documentary is something I’d be interested in anyway. Thousands of images from a local studio photographer rebuild the history of a town much like a Ken Burns film [...]
Posted in Food, People, Places, Video on Nov 13th, 2010 6 Comments »
San Francisco’s North Beach Old and New from Spots Unknown on Vimeo. John Gianni not only makes my mouth water with his food prep and cooking, but he brings back memories of San Francisco’s North Beach, a neighborhood I almost always visit on trips to San Francisco and have been for over thirty years. I’ll [...]
Posted in Photographers, Places on Nov 9th, 2010 2 Comments »
Ansel Adams or Not? More Twists If you go to Yosemite and stand in a certain spot with a view camera with a lens with a certain angle of view and make an image, you’ll no doubt get an image that could be attributed to numerous photographers who worked in Yosemite during Adams’ time. However, [...]
Posted in Adventure, Places, Video on Oct 27th, 2010 6 Comments »
Watch each of these full screen, have mind blown. Slack line walking at altitude = highlining. Send it sistah ! from sébastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo. SKYLINERS – A Documentary by Seb Montaz from sébastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo.
Posted in Events, Places, Video on Oct 27th, 2010 2 Comments »
Nova: Emergency Mine Rescue You can watch the entire video online. Not the best Nova I’ve ever seen but I’m fascinated by how this rescue worked and it was interesting to fill in the behind the scenes pieces on the various plans to rescue the men.
Posted in Food, People, Places, Video on Oct 25th, 2010 4 Comments »
The Best Thing I Ever Done HQ from MargaretEmily MacKenzie on Vimeo. This is a wonderful documentary by M.E. MacKenzie about Dom DeMarco, a pizzeria owner/operator in New York. Dom is like a character out of Moonstruck. I’ve watched this twice, will no doubt watch it again. I hope to eat one of his pizzas [...]
Posted in Photojournalism, Places on Oct 24th, 2010 6 Comments »
Widespread Impact From an Afghan Mine Joao Silva was embedded with a patrol in Kandahar Province, on assignment for The New York Times when he stepped on a mine and was severely injured. Link above shows images of him and his excellent work.
Posted in Ideas, People, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places, Video on Oct 20th, 2010 No Comments »
Congratulations to the 2011 TED Prize Winner: JR JR creates pervasive art that spreads uninvited on buildings of Parisian slums, on walls in the Middle East, on broken bridges in Africa or in favelas in Brazil. People in the exhibit communities, those who often live with the bare minimum, discover something absolutely unnecessary but utterly [...]
Posted in People, Photographers, Places on Oct 20th, 2010 2 Comments »
Flickr member Cristiano Pelagracci has produced a fantastic perspective shot here. It caught my eye immediately this morning. Great work Cristiano.
Posted in People, Places, Video on Oct 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Chilean miners waited for death CNN has an informal interview with a few of the Chilean miners in the hospital with their families. Luis Urzua, the shift foreman probably saved their lives. Had he not held them together they no doubt would have imploded. As this story comes out it’s going to be quite amazing.
Posted in Adventure, Canon Powershot S90, Places, Shadows and reflections on Oct 15th, 2010 6 Comments »
Race Brook Falls, Massachusetts. Dave and I took a late afternoon hike up Race Brook Falls to Mt. Race and the afternoon light was much better for photography than our usual morning hike, sun overhead situation. We’ve had such a dry summer this is the first time since spring that we’ve seen this much water [...]
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