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Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
This post is special because I received it from three different sources i.e. one RSS feed to which I subscribe and also from Angela and Mr TSK. Thank you so much for sharing.
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This is one of the most amazing collection of photograhps I've ever seen. Not because they are especially beautiful (although some are), but because of the meaning each of them has, and how each of them makes us think or feel something. These are worth more than a thousand words, and each tell a story about the world we live in.
CLICK HERE to see what I mean and be bowled over by their beauty and stories!
Have a great day!
I always thought it was a computer graphic until UP41 sent me a link recently that revealed the true story behind that image. Thank you, UP41, for sharing. Here it is!
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Everyone has seen the Windows XP desktop image called Bliss. It's been ubiquitous for 13 years. And you've probably always thought that the serene hillside is kind of corny and probably fake. Nothing is that idyllic.
But apparently it's real! And to commemorate the end of support for Windows XP, Microsoft made a video about the photographer who took the iconic picture.
Chuck O'Rear got the image in Napa Valley, north of San Francisco. He took it on a Mamiya RZ67 camera with color Fuji Film and a tripod. O'Rear explains in the video:
There was nothing unusual. I used a film that had more brilliant colors, the Fuji Film at that time, and the lenses of the RZ67 were just remarkable. The size of the camera and film together made the difference and I think helped the Bliss photograph stand out even more. I think if I had shot it with 35 millimeter, it would not have nearly the same effect.
Thanks to Mr TSK for sharing the following post which is not to be missed!
In an ambitious project, British photographer Jimmy Nelson has traveled all over the world to visit 29 indigenous tribes and capture their way of life before it's gone forever.
The result is 'Before They Pass Away', a series of portraits spanning the globe from the Gauchos of Argentina to Chukchi of far northern Siberia.
Nelson photographed these tribes using a 50-year-old plate film camera that captures these people and their environs in stunning clarity.
CLICK HERE to enjoy the spectacular shots.
Welcome to the department of discarded selfies, a dark place deep inside my phone where dimly lit close-up shots of my face are left to fade away into the cloud. I’ve thought about sending these photos to friends many times—that’s why I took them, after all—but each time my finger lingers over the share button, a few questions stop me: Why does my face look so weird? Are my eyelids that droopy? Is my chin that lop-sided? And how come nobody warned me?
Taking purposefully ugly selfies encourages photographers to seize control of their self-image by rejecting beauty standards and embracing the imperfect humanity of our faces. But what about earnest selfies that are just accidentally ugly?
Don’t blame your face. Blame your brain instead. Selfies sometimes look strange to their subjects because of how we see ourselves in the mirror, how we perceive our own attractiveness, and the technical details of how we take them on camera phones.
CLICK HERE for the rest of this interesting article by Nolan Feeney of The Atlantic.
Asia, besides being the biggest and most populated continent, is a place of beauty and mystery with breathtaking landscapes and ancient traditions. Photographer Weerapong Chaipuck knows exactly how to bring out the best of this land, and it's incredibly hard to believe he took up photography not long ago, following a medical career.
He attributes the beauty of his photos to timing. "When shooting landscapes, it is 100% natural, and pinpointing the exact time of day to shoot, whether that be 30 minutes before the sun begins to rise or 30 minutes before sunset, is a constant challenge. But that’s also what makes it all worth it." He says.
I could look at these all day, the colors, the atmosphere, are simply magical.
CLICK HERE for more.
History is not made of text in old books. It's not made of photos, either, or of videos, tools, devices or even memories. History is made of people. After all, people create history, they write history and they are the only creature that CARES about it, too. But we do. Because without seeing the past for what it was, how can we look the future in the face with any certainty? These terrific historical photos have been released for your viewing pleasure, and they are fascinating.
CLICK HERE to view.
Thanks to Mr TSK for sharing.
The Atlantic has a fantastic feature on CNY.
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Today marks the start of the Chinese Lunar Year, the Year of the Horse. One of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, the horse signifies kindness, strength, and gregariousness. In the larger Chinese astrological cycle, this year is also associated with the element of wood, which makes 2014 the Year of the Wooden Horse. The combination is supposed to signify 12 months of patience and cooperation ahead. People around the world ushered in the new year with firework displays, family get-togethers, temple visits, and street festivals.
Collected here are images from several countries where revelers have been welcoming the Wooden Horse's arrival.
CLICK HERE to view.
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Vivian Dorothea Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American amateur street photographer, who was born in New York City, but grew up in France. After returning to the United States, she worked for approximately forty years as a nanny in Chicago, Illinois. During those years, she took more than 100,000 photographs, primarily of people and cityscapes in Chicago, although she traveled and photographed worldwide.
Her photographs remained unknown and mostly undeveloped until they were discovered by a local Chicago historian and collector, John Maloof, in 2007. Following Maier's death, her work began to receive critical acclaim. Her photographs have been exhibited in the U.S., Britain, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Belgium, and have appeared in newspapers and magazines in the U.S., Britain, Germany, Italy, France, and other countries. A book of her photography entitled, Vivian Maier: Street Photographer, was published in 2011.
Many of the details of Maier's life are still being uncovered. Initial impressions about her life indicated that she was born in France,[3] but further researching revealed that she was born in New York City, the daughter of Maria Jaussaud and Charles Maier, French and Austrian respectively. Vivian moved between the U.S. and France several times during her childhood, living with her mother in the Alpine village of Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur near to her maternal relations. Her father seems to have left the family for unknown reasons by 1930. In the census that year, the head of the household was listed as award-winning portrait photographer Jeanne Bertrand, who knew the founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
In 1951, at 25, Maier moved from France to New York, where she worked for some time in a sweatshop. She made her way to the Chicago area's North Shore in 1956 and became a nanny on and off for approximately 40 years, staying with one family for 14 of them. She was, in the accounts of the families for whom she worked, very private, spending her days off walking the streets of Chicago and taking photographs, most often with a Rolleiflex camera.
CLICK THIS LINK to know more about this wonderful nanny turned photographer who has now become a legend.
CLICK THIS LINK to go to her official website and to enjoy her fantastic photography.
Thanks to UP41 for this link to a BBC video clip on Vivian Maier: CLICK HERE to view this fantastic MUST WATCH video that documents the life of an incredible artistic photographer who captured moments in life in a variety of situations. Some were snapshots but many of her works transcend the celluloid world to reveal so much more in such an intriguing manner because via her photography, she was trying to understand the world to which she belonged.
I have always enjoyed viewing fantastic photographs that showcase magnificent and spectacular scenes of nature and/or wildlife. Had I been richer in resources, I would have invested in good cameras and lens.
Viewing the entries from the Nat Geo Traveler’s 25th Annual Contest filleda me with much awe in jaw-dropped stance.
CLICK HERE to enjoy the spectacular shots.
Have you heard of Patrick Cashin’s photography? He’s famous in Flickr and his most popular shots have garnered hundreds of thousands of views. It is unusua that anyone would want to focus on such a limited subject - dark, dirty scenes of New York City – but unlike others who photograph what anyone can see, only Cashin makes the effort to show us what is going on beneath the surface because he is the official photographer for New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Hence, he documents processes that few would ever get a chance to witness in their lives.
CLICK HERE to view the gallery of amazing subtarranean shots.
As Sandy drew near, TIME asked five photographers — Michael Christopher Brown, Benjamin Lowy, Ed Kashi, Andrew Quilty and Stephen Wilkes — to document the hurricane and its aftermath via Instagram.
Working from different locations across the Atlantic seaboard, they captured ordinary people getting ready to greet the superstorm. And when Sandy made landfall the night of Oct. 29, they braved rising floodwaters, high winds and driving sheets of rain to photograph the storm’s impact on several communities.
CLICK HERE to see the 57 photos.
CLICK HERE for the best photos of the week (Oct 26 to Nov 2) # 29 to #58.
CLICK HERE to access the BBC website gallery of photos of the 'Storm Sandy Clean-Up".
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CBS News has a collection of 77 photographs that tell a very vivid portrayal of the trail of death and destruction left behind by Hurricane Sandy.
CLICK HERE to view that collection.
Lennart Nilsson, born in Strängnäs in 1922, is a pioneer in medical photography. In association with researchers and with the help of advanced, specially designed equipment, he has documented the inside of man down to the level of a cell. Throughout the years, ha has devoted special attention to capturing the creation of a human being, from conception to birth.
He began his career as a photojournalist in the middle of the 1940s and published a number of photo-essays in Swedish and foreign magazines, including "Polar Bear Hunting in Spitzbergen" (1947). On his assignment for Life to photograph Dag Hammarskjöld’s arrival in New York as UN Secretary General in 1953, he took with him his first photographs of the human embryo. The photographs were published, and he was encouraged to continue photographing the origins of man.
Click here for his biography.
Click here to see his wonderful pictures on the development of the foetus!!! Unforgettable and NOT to be missed.
