Check out this cool photo of a rocket launch. It was well worth the loss of a lens, according to the photographer (who was miles away when the photo was taken).
That’s what this is . . . a photo taken on a playground. My own children are among those up there. I lay on my back on the pea gravel to take this.
This is another in a series of posts by a few of us who enjoy photographing critters we find in our houses and yards. This shaggy little guy (he was about 3/8″ long) was posing on a screen on my back porch. I don’t claim to know enough about spiders to tell you anything about him (Click on the photo for more detail):
I subscribe to National Geographic in part for the great photography. In additional to publishing photos taken by their professional photographers, NG also sponsors various photography contests in which readers send in their inspiring, idyllic and oftentimes stunning images. Here are two of the NG contest sites (here and here), with lots of incredible sights to be seen.
I can’t say enough about all of the terrific written content of National Geographic either. It is a must-read every month for me. What a bargain! For only $15 per year (a fraction of the cost of a ticket to many spectator events), you’ll be transported to the four corners of the Earth (and beyond) every month.
No, I’m not simply trying to curry favor with my mother-in-law. Her name is Cynthia Jay, from Huntington, New York, and she is an exquisite painter and art curator–and a polymath.
She is also learning to use her new camera, the same model that I so often carry around, the Canon SD1100SI (costs less than $200). Cynthia is in St. Louis this weekend, and she shared some recent photos she took in San Francisco. I found two of them especially beautiful. The first was taken in the San Francisco Academy of Sciences Aquarium.
The subject of the second photo is a tree opposite the DeYoung Museum:
I’ve previously read accounts of photographers being harassed. This smart guy turned on his camera’s video function and recorded the outrageous conversation with a security guard. She was pleasant, but instructed him about a “policy” that is utterly bizarre (because this policy, to my knowledge, doesn’t really exist in the law). Keep in mind that, according to this security guard, it’s illegal for a tourist to snap any photos of the historic buildings in Washington D.C. without special clearance.
I’d like to reserve this post as a place for anyone else to post comments if they or someone they know has been warned to not take photos in public spaces, prevented from taking such photos or had their camera(s) confiscated.
I always carry a camera these days, hoping to capture something worth sharing. Whether I’ve succeeded will be for you to judge. Here’s the best I could come up with over the past few weeks. These photos really don’t have anything to do with each other other than that I [...]
I carry a little camera with me much of the time, just for moments like this. I was riding a light rail train across the Mississippi River today. The west end of the bridge consisted of a series of heavy metal girders and cables, as well as stone arches. The train [...]
What are we to make of this latest flap over a teen icon revealing herself as a potentially sexual being?
I was only dimly aware of Hannah Montana till the Vanity Fair scandal (if scandal is the word). Now it seems I can’t get away from her, which is, of course, the goal of marketing—to [...]
We were just getting warmed up with the photos in the previous post. You really must also view these incredible photos that are winners of the 2008 World Press Photos contest. Truly spectacular work.
For reference, here are the results from the World Press 2007 photo contest.
The current edition of Science (September 7, 2007- articles available only to subscribers online) contains a short article entitled “The Art of Virtual Persuasion.” The author notes a wide variety of studies that have shown that “people who mimic the gestures or speech of others are often perceived by those they mimic as more likable [...]
