As I typed the title, ‘My Vegas’, I realized how incredibly self-centered it seemed to the point that I almost hit backspace. But as it sunk in I realized that for me, photography sometimes needs to be a self-indulgent act.
Link: My Vegas | Luceo Images
Mekki sez, “The city of Ottawa has launched a security campaign funded by Transport Canada (federally) that asks people to report any ‘suspicious behaviour’, which includes photog…
The city of Ottawa has launched a security campaign funded by Transport Canada (federally) that asks people to report any ‘suspicious behaviour’, which includes photographers and sketchers.
A much needed upgrade is coming A good source piped up today and said a new EF 50mm f/1.4 USM exists and is being tested. Release date is unknown. Upgrades:
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2010/03/ef-50-f1-4-ii-usm-cr2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+canonrumors%2Frss+%28Canon+Rumors%29
I’ve been hording this group of inspirational work since the beginning of the year. I hope you enjoy this round of multimedia goodness that I find inspiring and worth sharing.
Me, I do not try to understand. For me, the most beautiful thing is to wake up, to go out, and to look. At everything. Without anyone telling me “You should look at this or that.” I look at everything and I try to find what interests me, because when I set out, I don’t yet know what will interest me. Sometimes I photograph things that others would find stupid, but with which I can play around. Henri as well says that before meeting a person, or seeing a country, he has to prepare himself. Not me, I try to react to what comes up. Afterwards, I may come back to it, perhaps every year, ten years in a row, and I will end by understanding.
Link: A Photo Student › Interview: Frank Horvat with Josef Koudelka
I happily sent myself back to Sun City for a third trip this month (the second trip in January is still under wraps for the client). I can’t tell you how much I am enjoying this project. I’ve got 13 miles of city to wander with my camera about in, and on the last go, the rental car people gave me a yellow VW bug.
Noted equine photographer Tony Leonard and his wife Adelle Bergantino are now living a nightmare
Link: PDNPulse: Kentucky Seizes Control of Photographer’s Work and Welfare
At 81, Bill Cunningham is probably the hardest working photojournalist in New York. Richard Press and Philip Gefter tried to keep up.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/behind-38/
the miracle of “Bill Cunningham New York,” a new 88-minute documentary about the photographer of “On the Street” and “Evening Hours,” is that its subject agreed to participate in the first place.
11 minutes well spent with Julieanne Kost:
via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/03/video_whats_new_in_lr3_beta_2.html
Web Video Photography and Audio Slideshows are being judged by a panel of experts today at NPPA’s 2010 Best Of Photojournalism competition at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, and the judges’ first picks in several categories have been posted on NPPA’s Web site today.
Link: Best Of Photojournalism: First Winners Picked In Web Categories
Not wanting to be completely overshadowed by Apple’s recent release of Aperture 3, Adobe has just made the second beta for Lightroom 3 available for download. And while Lightroom 3 beta 2 might sound like a pedestrian point-upgrade, it actually packs in s
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/first-look-new-adobe-lightroom-beta-kicks-noises-butt/
Not wanting to be completely overshadowed by Apple’s recent release of Aperture 3, Adobe has just made the second beta for Lightroom 3 available for download. And while Lightroom 3 beta 2 might sound like a pedestrian point-upgrade, it actually packs in some major new features.
Audubon has sent me to lots of wild places over the past 31 years, but I’d seen only one wolf and three cougars (a litter) until December 8, 2009. On that day, before noon in the Glacier National Park ecosystem of northwestern Montana, I encountered not just one wolf but two and not just one cougar but two! What were the chances of that?
Well, they were 100 percent, because I’d rented the animals for a photo shoot.
Link: Audubon Magazine
via: dvafoto
Today the exhibit “Crossfire” opened at the Drik Agency in Dhaka, Bangladesh, despite police barricades at the gallery doors. The exhibition depicts sites where people have been killed by the anti-crime unit known as the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
Link: PDNPulse: Photo Show Exposes Extrajudicial Killings in Bangladesh
Megan Whitmarsh Feature from TheCreativeLives on Vimeo.
Megan Whitmarsh is a very unique artist from Highland Park, CA who uses thread to create complex tableaux of characters in epic scenes of both fantasy and social anxiety. Drawing inspiration from 1980’s American pop culture and her intricate imagination, Megan’s canvas’ show a sympathy toward the misunderstood monster and a celebration of the magic of creation. Also an accomplished soft sculptor, Megan has created a mountain of stuffed replicas of trash she finds in her neighborhood. In this feature we get to know Megan and travel along as she paints a massive 55′ x 60′ installation at the prestigious IVAM Museum in Valencia, Spain.
The WHNPA Student Contest committee are happy to announce the Student Photographer of the Year is Diego James Robles from Ohio University.
