Ben Wilson
I came across the mini-spectacularity of Ben Wilson’s jewell-like paintings on chewing gum mere days ago, though I’m a little slow on the uptake (he’s been doing them for nine years).
Magical Photos From a Small Town in Northern Russia
Evgenia Arbugaeva has warm memories of a very cold place.
She grew up in Tiksi, a port town on Siberia’s Arctic coast — to her, a magical realm of wonder and discovery where she reveled in the “little miracles” of her endless natural playground
Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L II Announced
The new EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM professional zoom lens is an update to the popular EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Canon EF 24 f/2.8 IS USM & Canon EF 28 f/2.8 IS USM Announced.
Canon today also launches the new EF 24mm f/2.8 IS USM and EF 28mm f/2.8 IS USM – the world’s first 24mm and 28mm fixed wide-angle lenses to feature optical IS technology
Announced: Nikon D800 with 36.15 million image pixel sensor
Nikon has unveiled the D800, a new camera whose headline feature is its 36.15 million image pixel full-frame sensor which, as of this writing, makes it the highest resolution available or announced for a digital SLR camera, ever.
Nikon D800 press release
Photo Manipulation Scandal Follows Same Old Script
The contrarian this time is On the Media host Bob Garfield, writing for The Guardian. He satirizes Patrick as “the Great Satan” and says “let him suffer the fate of the frog!” He then raises that pesky question: “Don’t all journalists alter reality?” Finally, he asks this rhetorical humdinger: “[d]id he [Patrick] misrepresent the story, or did he perhaps just make it clearer?”
Chances Are, You Suck
Do you know that feeling? The one when you’re showing images to someone (perhaps an editor that you were hoping to work with) and you get to that picture, the one that looked perfectly acceptable moments before, but as soon as you show it, you’re filled with regret.
Photographs on the Brain #42
Christophe Negrel
FOCUS. FOCUS. FOCUS.
One hears this a lot; “photojournalism is changing and even dying.”