Last Monday was December 21st – the Winter Solstice, or the shortest day of the year (in the Northern Hemisphere). The 21st would also have also been the first day of Nivôse, the first winter month of the long-abandoned French Republican Calendar, named a
Last Monday was December 21st – the Winter Solstice, or the shortest day of the year (in the Northern Hemisphere). The 21st would also have also been the first day of Niv�se, the first winter month of the long-abandoned French Republican Calendar, named after the Latin word nivosus, which, appropriately means “snow or snowy”. Collected here are a handful of recent photographs of these snowy days for those of us in the north
Below are galleries for photos of 2009 and of the decade. You can view each gallery by clicking on the screenshots or the captions below each screenshot. If you know of a gallery you want to see on this blog, please post the link in the comments section at the bottom of this post. More galleries will be posted next week.
All this stuff degrades over time, so the contemporary advice is to digitize it for enhancement and indefinite preservation. Enter scanners and scanning software – a field which retains a steady clientele despite the onslaught of digital capture. A few firms still manufacture film scanners and several scanning applications are on the market, of which SilverFast remains the most comprehensive.
Despite being hammered by a paralyzing recession, 2009 turned out to be a surprisingly exciting year for photography gear. And as Technology Specialist for PDN magazine and Editor of the PDN Gear Guide, I had the lucky job of being able to test much of it.
Though year-end lists are always a very subjective matter, the following is my rundown of the stand-out professional “Gear of the Year” for 2009.
If 6-year-olds created a bike race, it’d easily be a form of cyclocross. It’s fun to ride, fun to watch, fun to shoot.
I crisscrossed the state to Bend a week ago for the final day of the national championships to see what I could see and to test out my new cold-weather gear before the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Geordie Wood first got his hands on a Mamiya camera while attending the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, beginning his academic career as a Photojournalism major.
For 50 years, those 55 and older have relocated to Sun City, Arizona, a city self-governed, a city unlike any other in the world. Sun City is 13 square miles of a retirement paradise of palm tree lined streets, each with a golf cart lane. The average age is 73. The community boasts eleven golf courses, seven recreation centers, seven swimming pools, three country clubs, 16 shopping centers and two libraries; the 42,500 residents have a lot to keep busy.
Carrying a Leica with a 35-millimeter lens, James Whitlow Delano photographs fast and unobtrusively. He says that photography is part of his D.N.A. “I am moved by light,” he said. “I like to tell stories. There is this need to travel and learn that I have been lucky enough to indulge.”
Swedish photographer Johan Bävman is the winner of the international competition “UNICEF Photo of the Year”. His photo shows two schoolgirls playing in their classroom at a school in Northern Tanzania. The visual impairment of 10-year-old Mwanaidi is not obvious at first glance. Her best friend Selina, however, stands out immediately. She suffers from albinism
We’re a ways off from hand-held cameras that can do it, but the future of photography will involve pictures in which the depth-of-field and focus and camera position each can be adjusted reliably and with quality in post-production.
The D3S digital SLR cameras and AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED lenses ordered by NASA will be carried on the Space Shuttle and used to photograph activities at the International Space Station (ISS) in the future.
Press photographer Tomasz Tomaszewski took top honors for his series “Hades?” depicting how the economic crisis is affecting manual labor in heavy industry in Poland.
I finally found some time to look at the 2009 Photography Book Now winning publication, Black Sea of Concrete, by Polish photographer, Rafal Milach. Rafal won $25,000 for his grand prize winning submission about the Black Sea. He works as an editorial photographer and is the co-founder of SPUTNIK, the collective of photographers from Central-Eastern European region, but he continues to work on fine art projects and essays.
Since FlakPhoto’s Andy Adams and I put out our call for posts on the Future of Photobooks a few weeks ago, more than 40 bloggers have shared their insights. You can find them all in our original post, plus lots of additional comments, and two new posts, about DIY book printers and the Future of Photobooks Twitter chat.
You and Me and the Art of Give and Take by Allen Ruppersberg (Santa Monica Museum of Art) Holy information overload. One of the coolest exhibition catalogues I’ve ever seen. Greater Atlanta by Mark…
