Wee Planets - A Flickr Gallery

16/Feb/2008

these pictures are 360°x180° panoramas projected to look like small planets.  To build a 360°x180° panorama you have to take pictures on all directions, but not only on the horizon. You should also shoot the sky (zenith) and the ground (nadir). A missing zenith is not important if you only plan to build a planet.  This initial panorama is built from many individual pictures with the following tools: * autopano-sift to create control points,  * hugin to figure out, from the control points, how each picture should be distorted,  * enblend, to stitch the distorted pictures together. Read More...

POWStock - A Canonical list of free and cheap Stock Photography

31/Aug/2007

Looking for free of cheap pictures to help with your designs? This is a nice starting point. Read More...

PhotoSeen.com

17/Jul/2007

PhotoSeen is an ever-changing gallery for an expanding group of independent photographers and imagists. It exists to provide a showplace for remarkable contemporary artists. Seen here is a photo by Anna Aichinger in her Habitat Series. Click the pic or the link for more. Read More...

Photoblog by Julien Roumagnac

06/Jul/2007

Julien shoots a lot of amazing industrial stuff, and some nature and people. Beautiful. Read More...

Wonder Woman's family - a photo gallery

06/Jul/2007

Fun gallery by Photographer Susanne Middleberg depicting Wonder Woman in mundane situations with her family. Read More...

Japan Forum Street Fashion Photo Galleries

06/Jul/2007

interesting collections of photo galleries capturing street fashion in Japan. click the pic or the link to see. Read More...

Stephane Coutelle Photography

20/Jun/2007

a french fashion photographer... interesting stuff. Read More...

Shorpy - a photo blog

12/Jun/2007

Shorpy.com is a photography blog that brings our ancestors back, at least to the desktop. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a boy who worked in an Alabama coal mine near the turn of the century.

shown here: "Going-to-the-Sun Hwy., Glacier Nat. Park, Montana. June 8, 1963." 35mm Kodachrome transparency." click the pic for more. Read More...

Spiral Gallery

12/Jun/2007

A Photo Gallery of Spirals in Natural and Man Made forms... lovely. click the spiral for more. Read More...

creative photos by chem madoz

30/May/2007

Born in 1958, Spanish artist Chema Madoz studied Art History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and photography at the Centro de Enseñanza de la Imagen, also in Madrid.In 1990, he began working in the area of OBJECT PHOTOGRAPHY, which remains the principal theme of his works, to this day. click the pic for a small collection of his photos. Read More...

flickrvision - flickr posts as they happen

22/May/2007

cool web application that use geotags to show you what's being posted on flickr in close to real time. It's like getting a visual pulse of the planet. Read More...

Mark Velasquez Photography

12/May/2007

This idea isn't super original and the photos aren't even amazing... but they are a bit naive(?) and sometimes funny. Click the pic for more, be sure to check out the "eccentric" gallery there are also some great portraits. Read More...

random web pic by kirk petersen

28/Apr/2007

from a slide show on file magazine.com, click the pic for more Read More...

Gallery of Mihal Manglulea Photos on Photo-eye.com

28/Apr/2007

I love these, they are painterly and poetic. Read More...

Spooky Sally Cherry Muffin

28/Apr/2007

Another German Pin-up Photographer... non pretentious, fun and pretty... click the pic for more Read More...

random web pic - dancer by Elio Montanare

26/Apr/2007

Ellen von Unwerth Photography

26/Apr/2007

I had never heard of her, but what do I know? click the pic for a link to a reproduction of her book "Revenge", sexy, sometimes dark, sometimes funny.

Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954 in Germany) is a photographer and director, specializing in erotic femininity. She worked as a fashion model for ten years herself before moving behind the camera, and now makes fashion, editorial, and advertising photographs.

Ellen von Unwerth found fame when she first photographed Claudia Schiffer for Guess? Jeans. Ah... it's all coming back to me....

She has been published in top magazines like Vogue, Vanity Fair, Interview, The Face, Arena, L'Uomo Vogue and I-D, and has published several books of photography. She won first prize at the International Festival of Fashion Photography in 1991. Read More...

Photography of Ahmet Ertug

13/Apr/2007

Ahmet Ertug studied architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, graduated in 1974 and practiced architecture in England, Iran and Turkey. He got involved in photography in London and took photographs of urban life. While working in Iran in 1974-76, he traveled and photographed indigenous settlements and ancient Persian monuments.

He started photographing the Ottoman and Byzantine monuments in Istanbul using large format cameras. His photography has a deep meditative energy and it withdraws the observer into the intellectual content of his subjects, ranging from the vast interior of monumental buildings to the silent gazes of ancient sculptures. Read More...

FlickrLeech - Daily

12/Feb/2007

A bored web programmer who was addicted to the flickr "interestingness" tag wrote a javascript that pulls 500 flickr thumbnails from any day of the year. You can click any photo to see it full size on the flickr site. You can pick any tag you want and do a search, it will pull 500 new pics with that tag. It's very zen. Read More...

Long Exposure Photos of 80's video games

08/Feb/2007

Cool long exposure photos of video games by Rosemarie Fiore. Also on her site she has funny ceramic recreations of scenes from RoadRunner cartoons re-imagined so the Coyote wins and kills the RoadRunner... original and strange!

Also don't miss the Scambler Drawings, paintings created by connecting a gas generator and air compressor to buckets of paint secured into the seats of a Scrambler amusement park ride. Once the ride was in motion, paint sprayed out of the benches onto vinyl tarps placed underneath. The result is a series of enormous hypocycloid designs which recorded the hidden patterns created by the ride as it turned. Read More...

Fotolog - Blogs that are all pics

14/Jan/2007

Yet another free service that gets you space and a voice... via pics you post. It's cool because it's international and there are groups based around subject matter. Shown here is a set from the group "color me impressed"

click the pic for more. Read More...

New York Public Library's Digital Gallery

07/Jan/2007

Lose yourself in this vast collection of rare prints, vintage maps, manuscripts, posters, photographs, sheet-music covers, dust jackets, menus, cigarette cards and other artifacts. There are more than 300,000 digital images of original materials available for viewing. Access is free, and you can download images to your computer for personal or research use. The My Digital page will store your favorite discoveries along with your search history. Read More...

Zoto - Photo Storage and more

01/Jan/2007

Yet another photo service? Well... Zoto is upping the ante with a low membership fee and "unlimited storage" The client for Macs and PCs is actually not bad... and the service is easy to use. Read More...

Andrew Moore Photography

01/Jan/2007

I like this guy's work. It's minimalist and lovely. If people appear in the photos, they are rarely the subject and are often insignificant and distant. Read More...

Jordan Matter's Uncovered: Celebrating Women in New York City:

26/Nov/2006

Jordan Matter's great gallery of regular New York Women topless in public. (click the pic)

from his statement: "A woman's right to appear topless in public was legalized in New York in 1992. Since New York is the only state with such a law, forty-nine out of fifty states deem it illegal for a woman to remove her shirt in public. However, men are free to take off their shirts with impunity. Challenging this inequity between the sexes is the purpose of my work. There has been a recent shift in America towards a socially conservative philosophy, so right after Janet Jackson's breast was exposed at the Super Bowl, I started asking women to appear topless in New York City. I wanted to document what the Federal Communications Commission called "great outrage among the American people" over a bare breast. But soon I realized there was very little outrage. Of the thousands of people who saw the women topless, most reacted with enthusiasm, humor, and encouragement." Read More...

your waitress - photoblog of valerie j. cochran

11/Nov/2006

I stumbled across this photoblog and just had to post this pic. Valerie's photos are a nice cross section of SF culture... this image captured a classic cartoon drag moment.

from her bio:

valerie j. cochran has been fascinated by the art of film photography since she was a young girl in rural missouri. she briefly studied photography at the savannah college of art and design in the early 1990's. her work today explores the roles we all play in our daily worlds, including her own as a full-time waitress. in may of 2004 she began your waitress photos which was followed by yourwaitress.com in august of 2005. her photoblog has become an ongoing conversation with random overlooked analog views from her home in berkeley, california and beyond. Read More...

Mine is no disgrace (a photo gallery)

11/Nov/2006

I randomly stumbled upon this gallery, apparently named after the Melvin's song... I like good photos that look like accidents.

click the pick for a small version of the gallery of the links below for quicker navigation.

places: http://mineisnodisgrace.com/archives/places.html
things: http://mineisnodisgrace.com/archives/things.html
people: http://mineisnodisgrace.com/archives/people.html Read More...

The Photography of Jaisen Crockett

11/Nov/2006

Jaisen Crockett is a recent Parsons School of Design Masters Program graduate in Photography. He has a unique perspective, and I really like the "Ephemeron" gallery that depicts ghosts or spirits in unusual settings.

from his artist statement, "I want you to question the idea behind ghosts, the aura, the invisible breath, the sublime and trepidacious moments... We move effortlessly from credibility through the incredible into a flux where we both coexist. And there, no longer quite in this world, we find what we are looking for."

click the pic to visit his site.

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HDR Photography: Definition and a "How To" for Photographers by CypherXero

01/Oct/2006

Have you ever seen a landscape or cityscape that looked hyper-realistic, or even fantastical -- a shot with amazing detail in the shadows, midtones, and highlights all at the same time?

It may have been perfect shooting conditions in the field, with a graduated neutral density filter or some other filter stacking combo, or maybe it was painstakingly crafted in Photoshop with tons of dodging and burning and layer masking.

Or it may have been a High-Dynamic Range Image (HDR), such as the lead image for this story. Often explained as "seeing more like the human eye," HDR imaging combines several shots of a given scene to overcome the exposure range limitations of traditional single-shot photography -- and the final results have much more detail from shadows to highlights, and everywhere in between. Read More...

Rare Scenes from 9/11

11/Sep/2006

Vanity Fair Photo Essay shows some rarely seen pics that capture a unique perspective on the 9/11 story. Read More...

eugenio recuenco fashion photography

01/Sep/2006

The work of eugenio recuenco. Seen here is "cinderella" from a series he did for Vogue. His work is ambitious and often surreal.

From a description on his website:

"eugenio recuenco is a spanish photographer who is a pain in the ass because he always insists on doing whatever he wants. He works for quite a number of clients both in the advertising and editorial fields all over the World who are also a pain in the ass, because they always want to do whatever they want. Out of these fights between hardheadeds it has been possible to rescue the images for this web site, some better, some worse, but made with lots of enthusiasm and with the support of a great team who refer to themselves as "The Eye of Frosker". The latter is an entity that has came to the earth to bother some and also to amuse some others. If you are one of the latter, stop fooling arround and get in."

Click the picture to visit his gallery. Read More...