A scene from my recent vacation: Volcán Mombacho, as seen from the belltower at Iglesia La Merced. I did a bunch of journaling and drawing, so more thoughtful Nicaraguan posts are on the way…
Category: Photos
The AJC has some really nice photos from the premiere of Gone with the Wind. I never knew there was a motorcade, teeming crowds, etc. Even has a nice playbill.
The fifth issue of Ahhhhh Mega-Zine is ready for your enjoyment. I really liked Javan Makhmali’s photos in this one.
The last sunset of 2008
2009 is going to be awesome, too.
How to make a $10 macro photo studio light tent thing. I don’t really need one, but I could probably think of reasons after I make it.
GeorgiaBankRobbery.com features images of persons who may be involved in criminal activity or wanted for questioning.
I love this photo of Stravinsky.
The old man will be home as soon as he can, and we will take a walk. That’s poor folk’s luxury.
That’s a quote from Carleton Watkins, an early American landscape photographer who hauled thousands of pounds of equipment around the American West. His photos of the Yosemite area appeared in The Yosemite Book that helped make it a protected area, and had a big influence in creating national parks. He was great with the lens, but not so good with money. Sad story of failing health, failing eyesight, then insanity. He lost his life’s work when the San Francisco earthquake struck and his studio burned.
An interesting aside from photographer Michael David Murphy’s Against Ease: or How the Inifinitely Reproduceable Pushes Us Further From the Source:
In some ways, the pricing of digital fine art prints seems to be a shift-away from paying for an actual print to paying for all the expense that went into creating the work that led to this actual print, because making the actual print is relatively cheap. And thereÄôs something a lot less seductive in that, to me, as someone who might like to buy a print. I want to pay for the worth of the thing itself, not the artistÄôs overhead.
A place called Sandar
A small glacial outwash plain near the Entuj??kull glacier.
A little plant
In the middle of a volcanic wasteland in Iceland.
A waterfall called Gullfoss
A street called Njar??agata
I’m still sorting through my photos from Iceland, sifting out the worthwhile from the not-so-great. I plan to take my time and upload them over the next week or so. This is from my first morning in Reykjavik. More to come.
A street called Njarðagata
I’m still sorting through my photos from Iceland, sifting out the worthwhile from the not-so-great. I plan to take my time and upload them over the next week or so. This is from my first morning in Reykjavik. More to come.
A fisherman at home
Bucket hat? Check. Knit woolen sweater? Check. Pipe? Check. I love it when stereotypes match with reality.
These photos of a leopard killing a crocodile are amazing. Apparently it’s the first time this has been witnessed or recorded.
More bad parking/driving
I couldn’t make it up if I tried. I saw this tonight. Only about 30 feet separates this from the worst parking I’ve ever seen incident earlier this year. There must be some sort of psycho-electro-magnetic field in this parking lot that disrupts human motor functions.
Indeed, this is the cutest thing I’ve seen today.
Rob Giampietro started a collection of imagery from the New Yorker fiction pages, 48 so far. Lots of good stuff there.
Joshua Heineman has a cool little project going where he takes old photos and makes them wiggle* so they look 3D.
[*this is the preferred technical term]
Mark Larson 