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Oren Lavie – Her Morning Elegance
Feb 26th
Amazing Stop Motion Video
Oren Lavie – Her Morning Elegance Oren Lavie’s album The Opposite Side of the Sea, to be released March 2009, The song "Her Morning Elegance". This beautiful video captures this song and brings it to life. Via Oren’s MySpace page: Oren Lavie – Co-director / songwriter – He likes to create dreamy visuals from realistic elements, he enjoys squeezing big worlds into small spaces. Yuval and Merav Nathan – Co-directors / animation – Together they create a unique style that combines photography, design, 3d animation, stop motion and 2d compositing. Shir Shomron – Actress – very More >
Picture of the Day – Edisto Beach, SC
Jan 19th
Photo by dejay – Get/View this photo in all sizes including Original (4594×2590)
Both Edisto Beach and Edisto Island, South Carolina are named for the Edisto Indians, the area’s original inhabitants. Edisto Beach is located on the southern tip of Edisto Island and is part of Colleton County, while the rest of Edisto Island is part of Charleston County.
via – TripCart :: The Travel Blog
Nikon D90 Test – Chase Jarvis Raw
Jan 14th
The 12.3-megapixel Nikon D90 is the first digital SLR
to shoot HD Video at 720p
Chase Jarvis RAW: Advanced Testing The Nikon D90
Nikon D90 Review – Digital Photography Review
Nikon D90 Specifications Revealed Nikon D90 Sample Photos
Iceland Panoramas – Multiple Frames Stitched
Nov 30th
From Reykjavik to Husavik, Iceland is a land of often bleak but always magnificent beauty:
These photos of Iceland are from a photo essay by Nathan Myhrvold. These shots were stitched together from multiple frames into one picture. His photo essay “Panoramas and Photo Technology From Iceland And Greenland” was published at Edge.org. To see the photos in larger size and learn more about the technology behind the picture making visit the photo essay at the link above.
Sam Abell – The Life of a Photograph
Nov 25th
"National Hotel, Moscow" by Sam Abell © 2008 National Geographic
Sam Abell is a photographer who has worked for National Geographic and made thousands of images over the decades. He describes his photographic technique as straightforward and he publishes all his images full frame with no cropping. When asked about his photographic influences, Sam said that as a student in Lexington, Kentucky in 1965 he picked up a book by Dorothea Lange. It was a small book that fit his hand and he carried across the school campus. By the time he had walked across the campus his life had been More >
Nick, Seth, Robert & Paris – Photofunia
Nov 16th
Nick, Seth & Robert with Paris
Select an effect and put your friend’s face in a fun photo at PhotoFunia.com
Nick, Joel & Andrew
World Animal Day
Nov 5th
Celebrating World Animal Day – October 4th
via: boston.com
For More Information:
World Animal Day – Belongs to Everyone World Animal Day Animated Screen Saver
Wildlife Conservation Society – Official Site Endangered Species – at the NY Times
The Red List – The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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Bullitt Mustang On The Road – Route 66
Oct 25th
Kenny Price took a drive down Route 66 recently and visited Gary Turner’s Sinclair Station. Kenny took the photo (above) of his 2008 Bullitt Mustang at Gary’s Station.
Gary Turner and his Parita Sinclair Station (built in 1930)
In the 30’s Route 66 was the busiest road in America. The entire 2300 mile stretch from Chicago to Los Angeles was continuously paved by 1938. John Steinbeck, in his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath named Route 66 the “Mother Road”. The movie was made a year later and firmly placed “Route 66” deep into the American consciousness.
Maria Neider, KY3 News, visited Gary Turner and More >
Losing a National Treasure
Oct 23rd
Many of those who fought for us in WWII are gone, most of those still with us are in their eighties. In this era of self-indulgence and expectation of entitlement along with an increasing lack of respect for the commitments and contributions of those who came before us the stories of those men and women who left hearth and home and went into harm’s way to protect their way of life for themselves, their families and all Americans need to be told. Of those who went, many did not return. Those who came home have carried their experiences and their stories More >
Singapore Grand Prix
Oct 17th
The Singapore Grand Prix is a Formula One race staged in the Marina Bay area of Singapore. Formula One, abbreviated as F1 is regarded as the pinnacle of Motorsports. This 800th F1 race was held on September 28, 2008 and was also Formula One’s first night race. F1 cars race at speeds as high as 225 mph (360 km/h) with engines revving up to 19,000 RPMs. The cars often pull 5g in some corners. Driver Fernando Alonso of Renault won the race with a time of 1:57:16.304
Formula One driver Giancarlo Fisichella of Italy flies through the air on bend 10 during a practice session at the Marina More >
Best Science Images of 2008
Oct 17th
via: National Geographic
2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners
The awards are sponsored jointly by the journal Science and the National Science Foundation
First Place, Illustration: "Zoom Into the Human Bloodstream"
– by Linda Nye
Deft manipulation of perspective gives viewers a detailed look inside the human circulatory system. This unusual view won artist Linda Nye first place in the illustration category.
Honorable Mention, Illustration: "Visualizing the Bible" – by Chris Harrison
A colorful rainbow brings to light the interconnected nature of the Bible. Chris Harrison and Cristoph Romhild collaborated to display the complexity of the Bible in a way that is more beautiful than functional yet More >
Anjana the Surrogate Mom
Oct 15th
The chimp’s name is Anjana
She took the role of surrogate mother after twin white tiger cubs were separated from their mother at the Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species in South Carolina, USA. These 23 day old cubs are named Mitra and Shiva. Anjana has been their constant companion, feeding them with a bottle and lying with them. Anjana has also acted as surrogate mother to leopards, lions and orangutans as well as these white tigers.
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Performance Photography or Light Art
Oct 14th
Light is all around us, but we often don’t really notice it. Our eyes are sensitive to light but they also compensate, so we often don’t see things as they really are. Film is sensitive to light, or in digital cameras it is the photoelectric light sensor known as a charge coupled device or CCD. Film and CCDs record the light focused onto them for a short period of time in the camera and they record the light just as it is.
These images were made using Light Art Performance Photography (LAPP) which is done by making longer exposures and capturing moving lights. More >
Great Photographers: Henri Cartier-Bresson
Oct 12th
“Brie” by Henri Cartier-Bresson, June 1968, Brie, France
This photo, “Brie”, was taken by one of the great photographers of the 20th century – Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004), considered to be the father of modern photojournalism.
In an interview with the Washington Post in 1957 he said:
Photography is not like painting. There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s The Decisive Moment (published in More >
