Bandaloop: Highly skilled and courageous people who like to dance on the sides of buildings. Bandaloop performed in St. Louis today, at Grand Center's annual Dancing in the Street Festival. For a larger gallery of images, click the title to this post and scroll to the bottom.
Tonight I attended the annual Balloon Glow at Forest Park in St. Louis. It was a great opportunity to work on nighttime photography. I worked hard to find images of people interacting with the balloons. Here are four of my favorites:
Last Saturday I joined a small group of urban explorers (I just joined this group on meetup.com). The location: Bethlehem Lutheran Church in North St. Louis. You can't help but think of all of the people who have stepped into this massive building on all of the emotional occasions. And today, there are a few more of us, admiring what this building once was. Here are a few photos glorious but sad building.
A friend shared this link to these Russian color photos from around 1910. Stunning images. Here's the story:
"With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time - when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun. Collected here are a few of the hundreds of color images made available by the Library of Congress, which purchased the original glass plates back in 1948."
St. Louis photographer Ed Crim adds this information: "The camera was situated on a very sturdy tripod, the image format was large (roughly 2.75 x3.5 inches) and the emulsions dense with silver. With precise registration of the images and cooperative subjects, it wouldn't be too hard to get sharp images."
I found this image on Facebook. I don't know how to give credit where it is due, but I'll share nonetheless:
