Titled "The Unfortunate Result of the Demise of the Public Pay Phone" by Susana Raab.
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I still have not been to Coney Island. *Lowers head in shame.*
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Remarkable photo of "an abandoned building [that] fills in as a playground for Palestinian boys on a hill above Bethlehem." It's an amazing capture of the resilient sense of play and casual invincibility of youth in the face of adversity.
American reporter John Rich's collection of color photographs, which he snapped with his new Nikon and Kodachrome film in between filing stories, during his time in Korea throughout the "Forgotten" conflict might "constitute perhaps the most extensive collection of color photographs of the Korean War." Most professional photographers then favored "black-and-white for its greater technical flexibility, not to mention marketability--the major periodicals had yet to publish in color."
Rich, who covered the Korean War in its entirety, remembers two colors the most: the Windex blue of the ocean and sky, and the brown of sandbags, dusty roads and fields of ginseng. In his photographs, though, red seems the most vivid.
Faces in the crowd of people waiting to hear Obama speak at a rally yesterday at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania. That same day, on account of the weather, McCain canceled his appearance in Quakertown just an hour away.This short silent film by photographer Vincent LaForet is absolutely eye candy. What makes it completely brilliant is the fact LaForet shot it only with a still camera. David Pogue writes:
The Web was buzzing a couple of weeks ago when photographer Vincent LaForet spent a weekend making a short, wordless movie using an early Canon 5D Mark II (an expensive, professional S.L.R.). He hired a couple of models, grabbed a crew, rented a helicopter, pulled together $5,000, and made an absolutely astonishing-looking piece of video.
Watch it here. And then view the awesome behind the scenes video.
Time photographer Callie Shell has been traveling with Barack Obama since 2004. The often intimate photos of him and his family on the campaign trail are quite wonderful, especially with Shell's blurbs accompanying the photographs.
I made this picture in October of 2006 during the Illinois State races. Just three of us in a car: Senator Obama, a friend of his who was driving and me. I don't think you could make this picture now. He had stopped at a rest area along the back roads of Illinois.There are no Secret Service agents, no staff, no motorcade or traveling press corps. It is a sharp contrast to the 200,000-person crowd that greeted Obama in Berlin less than two years later.
I loved that he cleaned up after himself before leaving an ice cream shop in Wapello, Iowa. He didn't have to. The event was over and the press had left. He is used to taking care of things himself and I think this is one of the qualities that makes Obama different from so many other political candidates I've encountered. Nov. 7, 2007.
Senator Obama was doing press interviews by telephone in a holding room between events. Sometime later as he was getting ready to begin his event, he asked me if I was photographing his shoes. When I said yes, he told me that he had already had them resoled once since he entered the race a year earlier. Providence, R.I., 3/1/2008.
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The Sartorialist captures the precocious stubbornness of this sparkling child:
This bird's-eye view of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania was the first image ever seen by the GeoEye-1, the world's highest-resolution commercial satellite sponsored by Google, when it opened its camera door earlier this week.
The 4,300-pound satellite collected the image at noon EDT on Oct. 7 while moving from the north pole to the south pole in a 423-mile-high orbit at 17,000 miles per hour, or 4.5 miles per second. The spacecraft can take photos at a resolution of up to 41 cm -- close enough to zoom in on the home plate of a baseball diamond, according to Mark Brender, GeoEye's vice president of communications and marketing.
So crisp.
As a huge fan and early adopter of Flickr, the online photo sharing community, as well as also being tasked with managing a large online community myself, I found this article about community managers at Flickr interesting:
At first glance this parallel society has been made, quite literally, in the image of our own. But in truth it's more like a Photoshopped image -- the nice parts accentuated, the inappropriate bits cropped away. So it goes with any online community, of course. Behavior must be moderated and a communal ethos must be preserved; Wild West cliches aside, total freedom at any entity like this would sink it in a storm of lawsuits, flame wars and gridlocked cacophony. So directors of community exist. And while the job of nurturing and policing any online realm would make for a fascinating study, I was particularly curious about how it worked at Flickr.Director of Community Heather Champ doesn't just guard the pool and blow the occasional whistle; it's a far more delicate, and revealing, dance that keeps the user population here happy, healthy and growing. In addressing that question of how much to police and how much to let things be, Champ oversees an experiment that, outside some far-flung and sandy exceptions, one rarely sees in such detail.
I've believed in this website and the product from the very beginning and it's really satisfying for me to see it grow into a vibrant and engaging community. I'm glad to see that its merger into Yahoo has been relatively positive, although I'm still bitter at having to give up my original login for a Yahoo one instead. Boo to that.
Their programmers in particular are top notch, so if any of ya'll read this: Thanks for making the site products so usable!
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Gareth White created these crazy and funky alien creatures or the "i-men" using Apple's Photo Booth software:
View the entire collection on his Flickr site.
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If we're going to advocate teaching Creationism like VP nominee Sarah Palin in our science and history classes as a viable "theory" thatreceives "equal representation with other theories of the origin of life" then that curriculum better damn well include the one about our planet resting on the back of a spider which rests on the back of a frog that rests on the back of a turtle. It's just as valid. And I don't know about you, and no disrespect, but I think this earth-spider-frog-turtle explanation is a better look than a vengeful and wrathful Old Testament God.
[Thanks Kate!]
David Pogue shares an interesting unadvertised and vague customer loyalty program at Canon, which he discovered after the unfortunate death of his Canon SD700. The Canon Loyalty program is basically "designed to assist customers whose camera is unrepairable and out of warranty [and] lets them purchase a refurbished functional camera at a discount." Canon is a bit cagey about what sort of discounts and options are available, but if you have a broken SD or some other Canon program, it definitely doesn't hurt to give them a call! I just wished Apple would take care of their customers like this. Not that I'm doubting the Great Word of Steve Jobs of course. All Hail Steve. All Hail Steve.
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You ask, "What is chimping?" Wikipedia answers:
Chimping is a term used in digital photography (especially when using a digital single-lens reflex camera) to describe the habit of checking every photo on the on-camera display (LCD) immediately after capture.
Experienced photographers often use the term in a derogatory sense to describe the actions of wannabe photographers (often called newbies).
Usage behaviour varies depending on context and the person using it, but common uses include:
* When a photographer’s sounds and actions of reviewing frames on-scene appear similar to the actions of an excited primate (Oooh! Oooh! Aaah!) * When the photographer is completely absorbed in the act of analysing, admiring or proudly showing a photo off to others
While I've done this on more than one occasion I have reduced my chimping (chimpiness?) over time, and only when I REALLY want to make sure I get a specific shot do I check it on the LCD screen. For party pictures, I actually get annoyed at the tendency of many subjects who want to take a look at their photo right afterwards and I become even MORE annoyed when I hear them say "Ewwww, I hate it. Delete it. Take another."
Cats, the Internet meme that doesn't die has now been fused with the Sartorialist, the street fashion photographer. Behold: The Catorialist.
Great. This means that I'm going to run into more cats loitering in Soho hoping to be spotted by this self-trained photographer. This does not bode well for my allergy.
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