Apple’s hypocrisy with regard to the App Store is something I know well. Several times last year I wrote about Apple allowing apps like “Asian Boobs” and upskirt apps into the App Store while rejecting things such as satirical apps that mocked public figu
Apple’s hypocrisy with regard to the App Store is something I know well. Several times last year I wrote about Apple allowing apps like “Asian Boobs” and upskirt apps into the App Store while rejecting things such as satirical apps that mocked public figures. It was ridiculous. So you might think I’d be happy that Apple is now rejecting and removing sexy apps from the App Store as well. But actually, the hypocrisy is much worse now.
Review by Douglas Stockdale • Inside the window is a beautiful wedding dress, but this simple window is framed by a neutral toned cinderblock and wood wall with an exposed adjacent electrical box. …
Inside the window is a beautiful wedding dress, but this simple window is framed by a neutral toned cinderblock and wood wall with an exposed adjacent electrical box. The surrounding ground is a patchwork of grass and dirt, with a barren tree lurking on the edges of the fame. This bleak looking scene is not enhanced by the mirrored reflection of an oil well rig ringed by an overcast sky. The wedding dressed manikin is facing inward, with the reflected oil rig positioned such that it is just above the back shoulder out of the field of vision. This is a dark story about love and romance with a fairy tale wedding story, but looming in the background is the reality of a rough and tumble working life working out in the plains. This same mixture of humor and pathos seems to run though David Carol’s photobook All My Lies Are True.
In the stillness of empty buildings, Magda Biernat finds human traces. While cropping out location and context, she looks for the soul in the modern built environment.
“I’m always drawn to spaces and structures and compositions that are void of people,” Ms. Biernat said. “It’s an intuition. It’s something that I see and I have to get.”
showing your pictures isn’t enough nowadays. You might want to add a shopping cart that allows your clients to license images or purchase prints and products directly off the site, or make it easier to create and manage your galleries and distribute high resolution files. If that’s the case, don’t worry! If you’re happy with your existing site, then we like it, too! We can appreciate the value of a custom built design, and if our design themes don’t provide the look-and-feel you’re after, you can customize PhotoShelter to enhance the site you already have. This is possible because PhotoShelter pages can actually be easily integrated into any outside website.
As Operation Iraqi Freedom draws to a close, Khadum is finding that the brand of freedom the United States ushered in is at best tenuous, at worst a temporary illusion.
France made serious errors in judgment over the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and wants to ensure that all those responsible for the slaughter are caught and punished, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday.
Publishers should think twice before worshipping the iPad as the future platform for magazines and newspapers. That is, if they value their independence from an often-capricious corporate gatekeeper. The past week’s controversy swirling around Apple’s ret
Publishers should think twice before worshipping the iPad as the future platform for magazines and newspapers. That is, if they value their independence from an often-capricious corporate gatekeeper.
Apple has released Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 3.1 for the Mac OS, which adds support for the RAW formats of 11 new digital cameras, including the Olympus E-P1 and EP-2 and Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1.
Wedding, portrait, and fine art photographer, Laura Burlton, mines her immediate family for many of her photographic musings, in fact, her daughters are the subjects for her new series, Dreams in Chalk. A native Texan, her life long love of photography is evident in the enthusiasm and commitment she brings to her craft. For much of her fine art work, Laura uses toy cameras to bring her ethereal and other worldly images to life, though she still uses the occasional large format camera for some of her work.
Last summer, I posted about Mark Ryden’s wonderful and inexpensive Tree Show postcard set. The follow up, “The Snow Yak Show Microportfolio,” is even more delightful in my opinion…
Ed Kashi is a photojournalist and filmmaker. He spoke with Lens last summer about “Three,” his book of triptychs. (“Kashi, Kashi, Kashi,” June 19, 2009.) His other books include “Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta” and “Aging in America: The Years Ahead.” His work often appears in National Geographic. The interview, by James Estrin, has been condensed somewhat and edited for clarity.
Photographer Sarah Small lives and works in New York city. Her photography, with it’s enchanting people, animals, and candy colors, documents the human drama created when disparate visual elements and emotions collide. From her artist statement, “I examine human interactions with one another and with animals without reference to environmental cues or social markers like occupation, class and revealing context.”
About Luminous Landscape 20 Years and 5800+ Articles Later Michael Reichmann started The Luminous Landscape in 1999 after his friend Chris Sanderson suggested that he take some of the magazine articles he had written over the years and repurpose them for
The photograph, Lamp & Ladder, is one which I took in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in February, 2010. I’ll use it as an example of the thought process used in both taking the photograph and also in preparing it for printing. This process will be taken step by step, deconstructing the image and finally, declaring what it is “about”.
Buzz displays your photos much more elegantly than they do on Flickr. As you upload your photos to Flickr, or Google’s Picasa (where I’ve started getting more active myself), your photos are imported into Buzz as a stream of nice looking large sized thumbnail images. But here’s where it gets better. Click on an image and Buzz loads up the image’s full large size, in all it’s glory. I don’t know about you, but I love looking at images really big *much* more than I enjoy looking at the medium sized 500 px default that Flickr shows.
the editorial is about the magazine’s annual Reader’s Photos Contest. This year, in two of the categories, the winners were what the magazine calls composites, and what I call Photoshop jobs.
One photo shows a motorcyclist being chased by a tornado; another shows a flock of seagulls wheeling around a lighthouse in amazingly photogenic formation. Neither scene ever actually existed as photographed.
File under “They don’t make ’em like they used to”. This is the Kodak Bantam Special, a beautiful camera from 1936, made from machined aluminum and finished with enamel. The camera was designed by a company named Teague, and employee Sarah Matheny posted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GqJHaNRlas Augmented reality enthusiasts dream of a future where having access to data everywhere will give us the eyes of the Terminator. Imagine donning virtual glasses that display digital captions describing everything
Technology Editor Dan Havlik is back from the PMA trade show in Anaheim, where several exhibitors made news with their product announcements. Here’s a wrap up on the news he first posted on PDNGearGuide.com.
Yutaka Takanashi in an interview once described his approach while working on Toshi-e as, “…two conflicting creatures settled into my body. One is a ‘hunter of images’, aiming exclusively to shoot down the invisible, and the other is a ‘scrap picker’ who can only believe in what is visible.” Onaka Koji, a contemporary scrap picker to Takanashi has produced several books over the past ten years, of which, Slow Boat and Distance are my favorites.
Passion, drive and mud fill the pages of Jake Mendel’s book Short Track, published by powerHouse Books. In the 77 black and white photographs determination and the ghost of Dale Earnhardt show their faces. This is not a surprise, but gives credence to the authenticity of the fans, drivers and wrench turners pictured. Racing is their life, not a recreation.
