Ever wondered how big nebulae are? Go take a look at the April 11, 2009 Astronomy Picture of the Day for a great composite photograph that shows you.
Amazing sense of scale
April 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: · astronomy · photography · science
Most amazing photos
March 14th, 2009 · Comments Off
The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition) is an exhibit of digital prints created from the original glass negatives, which were taken through red, green, and blue filters in the early twentieth century. And aren’t these windmills something else?
(Tip of the hat to Sully.)
Tags: · history · international · photography
British bird photos
January 28th, 2009 · Comments Off
Very nice set of snapshots taken during the British Big Garden Birdwatch are up at guardian.co.uk.
Tags: · birds · nature · photography
Amazing photography
January 1st, 2009 · Comments Off
Mostly male portraits, some nudes, some couples. Also a few family portraits. An amazing photographer: Paul Mpagi Sepuya.
Tags: · art · gay · photography
Greengrocer
August 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments
My friend Sam gave me the best food tip ever: A. Russo and Sons in Watertown, Mass. Here’s just a sample of their eggplant selection last weekend:
(Click for larger size.)
Tags: · food · photography
Library of Dust
August 17th, 2008 · Comments Off
BLDGBLOG presents an introductory essay and photos from Library of Dust
There’s a spectacular new book coming out at the end of this summer called Library of Dust, by photographer David Maisel, published by Chronicle Books. . . . In 1913, Maisel explained, an Oregon state psychiatric institution began to cremate the remains of its unclaimed [...]
Tags: · art · photography
Photographs with no camera lens
July 30th, 2008 · Comments Off
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Want
June 6th, 2008 · Comments Off
On the livejournal steampunk fashion group, along came this little beauty:
Rolleiflex MiniDigi AF5.0
First developed in Germany in the 1920’s, the Rollei 6×6cm Twin Lens Reflex Camera has always been a preferred tool for serious photography, especially portraits. There cannot be, for example, a single Hollywood celebrity who has not been photographed with a Rollei. Now, [...]
Tags: · gadgets · geek · photography
Anza-Borrego State Park
March 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments
We had a nice visit of the whole family to the Anza-Borrego State Park this morning. It’s past the peak for desert wildflowers, but we still saw some colorful plants. I took some photos, and managed to crop a few on my as-yet ill-equiped Dell laptop.
Tags: · desert · nature · photography · travel