The Visual Science Lab: A new strategy for buying cameras. Circa 2009.:
Just a thought. Lenses for the long haul, bodies year by year. No matter which system you favor. Because even when the megapixel hysterics wear out we’ll still have dynamic range to drive the market.
lenscratch: Jonah Samson:
Vancouver photographer, Jonah Samson, has created miniature worlds that feel familiar, but upon closer inspection are wonderfully twisted and perverse.
PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK – Lloyd Godman: Enlightened Visions:
The adjective protean hardly seems adequate to describe the force of nature that is Lloyd Godman—photographer, organic gardener, environmental activist, educator, writer and visionary. The native New Zealander has for the past several decades produced numerous bodies of work that celebrate the power and mystery of nature while questioning our collective complacency towards the planet we inhabit. Born in Dunedin, New Zealand, and now living in Melbourne, Australia, Godman applies probing intelligence and generosity of spirit to unique multiple-image panoramas, multi-media installations, and performative works that challenge and engage viewers with direct and transformative grace.
A Summer Contest Festivus!:
Holgapolooza is an annual photo contest and celebration of the Holga camera.
Each year from July to September, photographers from around the world are encouraged to participate in an international contest featuring Holga photography hosted by Light Leaks Magazine and Toycamera.com.
Categories will be presented and submissions will be reviewed by well-respected and internationally renowned judges who will determine winners in each of the categories. Winners will be rewarded with cash and prizes donated by our sponsors as well as have their photos published in Light Leaks magazine.
Showcase: On, and Off, the Road – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
The Fourth of July holiday offers the rest of us the chance to reflect on the nature of America. But Peter Kayafas does his reflecting in August. All month.
Photojojo Blog » The Most Popular Camera is now… a phone?!via APAD
DOUG MENUEZ 2.0: GO FAST, DON’T CRASH:
So let’s settle the question of whether using a photograph or text or music outside of “fair use” without permission is stealing. It is. Period. Look it up. It’s illegal. Whether you think it’s morally ok to steal is your problem and karma. If you want to roll through stop signs, cheat on your taxes, or avoid paying sales tax in your home state by buying online, that’s your choice.
Michael Jackson’s Last Close-Up | vanityfair.com:
The team of paparazzi who took the now infamous final photograph of Michael Jackson had fixated on the King of Pop—both with their cameras and without—for years, camping outside his gate and communing with his most fervent fans. In exclusive interviews, they recount the play-by-play of the shot seen round the world.
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The Sun News On-line | Wiveslive:
There is nothing I can say. Of course I will be happy to find a condom in his pocket, knowing that he is being careful not to impregnate another woman or infect me with diseases.
The Sun News On-line | News:
Like Nostradamus, Prophet T.B Joshua of The Synagogue Church of all Nations and Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele of the INRI Spiritual Home, both based in Lagos, accurately predicted the death of American pop music icon, Michael Jackson.
June 12, 2009, a significant date in Nigeria’s electoral history, was Prophet T.B Joshua’s birthday. A week before the date, the man of God, as his teeming followers call him, went to “the mountain.”
One of his apostles, Pastor Chris, a Briton, told Sunday Sun that he went to the mountain to pray, fast and communicate with God. After days of dwelling on the mountain and “seeking God’s face,” the prophet came down and announced to his congregation and the church’s live cable, Emmanuel TV, that the pop music icon, Michael Jackson, needed deliverance on Sunday, June 14, 2009.
the life of m: Red, White & You:
Have I mentioned how much I love the Camerabag iPhone app? The “helga” filter is modeled after my favorite cheap, plastic toy camera – the Holga. It crops the photo into a square, bumps the contrast a little and vignettes it. And it’s what I use for 99% of the stuff I shoot with my iPhone.
Anthony Hernandez — Street life through a lens:
As a street photographer, Anthony Hernandez learned how to become invisible. He did it by teaching himself how to take a photograph so smoothly no one realized what was going on.
lenscratch: Michael Slade:
My only memory of the Great Salt Lake is when my mother bought me a big chunk of rock salt that I licked all the way back to Los Angeles on a summer road trip (a treat that would not be sanctioned these days). So I was happy to revisit the lake through Utah photographer, Michael Slade’s, interpretive images. These rich black and white prints are part of an extensive photographic survey of not only the Great Salt Lake, but the life and lifestyles that surround it.
Exclusive audio interviews with photographer Munem Wasif – lens culture photography weblog:
Prix Pictet winning photographer Munem Wasif talked with us about the ecological and personal disasters in Bangladesh caused by a vast influx of shrimp farming. He also provided some insight into his evolving philosophy as a concerned photographer.
Half a Tank: Along Recession Road – Coffee And A Life Story In Fort Lauderdale:
Through a window fogged by a rainstorm, Florence Martin can be seen waiting on a table.
CLICK NOTE: Michael Williamson of The Washington Post is consistently putting out amazing work on the Half a Talk blog. Make sure you’re following it.
Abandoned Houses, by Kevin Bauman:
The abandoned houses project began innocently enough roughly ten years ago. I actually began photographing abandonment in Detroit in the mid 90’s as a creative outlet, and as a way of satisfying my curiosity with the state of my home town.
