Salton Sea, last week, in infrared.
Not sure of the photographer’s name (it’s just given as CDR), but there’s a really nice portfolio of images on expired SX-70 film up on Polanoid.
The Earth from Above series is on tour and starting in NYC in May. Check out a selection at The Big Picture.
Image from a series of Lee Mawdsley’s personal work based on high speed photography. It’s nice to see the idea of high-speed photography used with such a graceful approach.
Um…wow.
When SLRs start shooting extraordinary footage, the lines are blurred, the game starts changing.
First the Nikon D90, now this.
Benedict Redgrove has a wonderfully desaturated portfolio that’s worth spending 10-15 minutes staring at.
Wayne Levin’s work made me a bit happier today. Nature, math and abstraction rolled into one. His surfing, diving and seascapes are worth a long look as well.
I’ve been a big fan of Abelardo Morrell since I learned how to use a view camera. His Camera Obscura images are made by finding a room with a view, taping black plastic over the windows then cutting a small hole in the middle of the plastic. Point a camera at the opposing wall, open the shutter for a long time, and the room reveals itself as a lens. He’s got a show coming up in New York in late September.
Findng beauty in the ordinary – this whole series of photos of billboards look like light and geometry rendering experiments. Don’t stop there – his whole portfolio is killer.
One from the archives…. Portrait of yours truly by Herb Hoover.
A years-long effort to recreate the “Venice” sign that hung over Windward Street many many years ago (back when most of the streets here were canals) has finally come to fruition. After seeing it lit up for the first time last night, you can’t help but think that it was a really good idea. It’s simple, unique and beautiful, casting a warm glow on a street that needs some warmth.
Part of a series, still in progress…
Off to the deserts tomorrow…
Sometimes, opinions are best left to oneself, rather than transmitted globally.
Case in point: This ridiculous thread on Flickr where an army of “photographers” find many faults with a Henri-Cartier Bresson photograph, and vote for its deletion. Sheesh. One of the comments quotes Bresson and pretty much sums it up: “Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.”
Night photography – when I get the chance every now and then – is one of my favorite things to do with a camera. I’ve been doing it with the digital SLRs lately, but when I can get out the medium-format or better yet, the 4×5, it’s the bomb. Depending on the film and reciprocity failure – film reacts to light very fast initially, then the reaction trails off so a metered 1-minute exposure should take 1.5-2 minutes to expose correctly – you have to just hang out and talk to people while the camera does its thing. Plus, in the city, the sodium + mercury lamps create wild color temperature swings, so shadows take on color that your optic nerve filters out. There’s a lot of night photo stuff on Flikr and other sites, but this one may be my favorite: over 150 panoramic views of Japan at night. Almost all of the site is in Japanese, so click away on the map and explore.
