Tag: photography

Shanghai Expo

Organizers of Shanghai’s World Expo have been holding trial runs this week. Officials now estimate the 6-month event, themed “Better City, Better Life”, will attract up to 100m visitors, 95% of them Chinese. Shanghai has spent $58.6b preparing for the Expo – more than was spent on the Beijing Olympics. Collected here are photographs of last-minute preparations in Shanghai as they prepare to welcome the world this weekend.

world expos are so weird. what is on display / sale here? competing 70s-era utopias?

IC 5067

in may 2009, i spent a night at kitt peak national observatory, the largest on the planet, to take a picture of IC 5067. IC 5067, also known as the pelican nebula, is 2000 light years away on our spiral arm of the galaxy, the orion arm. it is 15 light years across, and an active region of star formation.

the picture was taken on a 0.5m telescope with a SBIG STL 6303E CCD camera, cooled to -15C. exposure time was 40 minutes each for red, green, blue and 2 hours for luminance.

wsj Photo Journal

wherein the WSJ copies Kokogiak

Cassini

Just wow. Some more

User Photos in Street View

another tiny step towards the mirror world

Ukrainian Fighting Women

an unusual group of 150 Ukrainian women who call themselves “Asgarda.” These women live in the Carpathian Mountains and follow a rigorous routine of fighting and boxing, often with medieval weaponry.

Tiltshift Maker

Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs.

Sigma DP2

Sigma has announced the DP2, a large sensor compact camera that will sell alongside the DP1. The new model’s specifications are largely identical to the DP1’s but it comes with a 41mm (35mm equiv.) lens, rather than the 28mm equiv. lens of its sister model; the new lens is also a stop faster at F2.8 as opposed to F4. The DP2 additionally includes the True II image processing engine that appears in the new SD15 DSLR, which the company says offers improved processing speed, operation and performance.

a compact camera with the foveon chip. want.

Camp Tintype

the best known and longest running learning center for wet-plate collodion photography in the world.

Manhattan Street Corners

Richard Howe’s photographs of Manhattan street corners capture the many identities of a multi-faceted city. The sequences of images read like a film where we are peering into the lives of the people who define the city’s character. This is a poignant way to distinguish New York, presented in a fashion that pays great respect to the aesthetics of photography. The New-York Historical Society looks forward to including these works in our collections.

all street corners in manhattan. now do it for nyc!