“At least 1,500 years old, a 300-foot titan in California’s Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park has the most complex crown scientists have mapped. This photo, taken by Michael Nichols, is a mosaic composed of 84 images.”
Tag: photography
How to Publish a Magazine in a Day and a Half
Derek Powazek talks about gathering and publishing Photos from the Great Australian Dust Storm.
Certified genius day, today:
Birthdays of Glenn Gould, William Faulkner and Mark Rothko!
Glenn Gould, a pianist like no other, and a personality whose talent exceeded the narrow arena of the performing artist: Sep. 25, 1932 – 1982
Photo by Gordon Parks, NYC, March 1956 – LIFE
Caption: Brilliant young Canadian pianist Glenn Gould laughing as engineers let him hear how his singing spoiled his recording of the Bach Goldberg Variations after which he offered to wear a gas mask to muffle his songs, at a Columbia recordling studio.
In 1973, Toni and Ria Harting spent a small inheritance on three weeks enjoying 10 three-star restaurants in France.
“My mother was as adventurous as I am. She said to me, just before she died, ‘I don’t want you to put it in the bank. Use it for something nice…something that you enjoy.’ So I thought, ‘I enjoy France, I enjoy food, I enjoy travel, and I enjoy my wife.’”
[via funkaoshi]
A walk in wintry woods, Stockholm, Sweden.
Newsboys Strike of 1899, via one of the cool people I work with.
SEVILLE, Spain—Feria Festival, 1986. Kind of like that old cartoon I stumbled upon a while back, I hadn’t seen this photo in years, but I remember seeing it in an issue of National Geographic back in the ‘80s.
Thom and Jonny and I’m guessing Colin in the background. Looks like they’re on a spaceship.
Vanity Fair Sheer Gown. Gelatin silver print by Mark Shaw in the Monroe Gallery.
Old photos from the Festival of San Fermín. Lately I’m enjoying the Slate/Magnum galleries more than The Big Picture (which also has some nice photos from San Fermín this year). It’s a little less newsy, more old-school and artsy, I guess.
Hazmat team removes suspicious package | ajc.com. This looks like something from a music video.
Carter Corsets, woman with stars and stripes background, by Victor Keppler. I love this photo.
Louis Armstrong, takin’ care of business without a shirt. I wish I knew some background on this photo.
San Francisco, 1906. High resolution panorama taken after the earthquake. Incredible. (via Wehr in the World)
Suzy Parker and Robin Tattersall. Dress by Dior, Place de la Concorde, Paris, August 1956. Photo: Richard Avedon. I hope to go to Paris this fall.
Space Shuttle Atlantis and Hubble Space Telescope silhouetted against the sun. See it really large. (via nasa hq photo)
Mark Larson 
