Category: Photography

  • Photography by Michal Huniewicz

    Photography by Michal Huniewicz

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    There is a certain age at which everyone must have some sort of adventure. Michal Huniewicz had one in the country of Mauritania, where he rode on top of an iron ore train across the Sahara Desert, capturing incredible images along the way. His entire gallery is widely diverse, having traveled just about eveywhere from…

  • Clark Little Photography

    Clark Little Photography

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    Clark Little is a photographer in beautiful Hawaii who shoots breaking waves right on the shore, with a style of composition all his own. Here he explains how he started out with a simple point and shoot capturing unique images of breaking waves, and how it exploded into something huge practically overnight. Check out his…

  • Dennis Hopper – The Lost Album

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    As if Dennis Hopper wasn’t already practically the epitome of the word “cool”, here is a gallery of his photographic work to enjoy. Dennis’ “counterculture cred” allowed him to get into some unique situations for a photographer. He perfectly captured images of all aspects of life – fairly straightforward street scenes, bullfighting, and lots of…

  • Production Photos – Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

    Production Photos – Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

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    Someone has uploaded an incredible gallery of production stills from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. If you’re a fan of the movie, or of Stanley Kubrick, you will love this set of photos that cover everything from the primate monolith war to the rotating space station to the inner components of HAL himself. Production…

  • Butterfly wings – a set on Flickr

    Butterfly wings – a set on Flickr

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    Flickr user Linden Gledhill has a phenomenal series of macro photographs of butterfly wings. Incredible detail and sharpness for such a tiny subject. Butterfly wings – a set on Flickr.

  • The Life and Work of Street Photographer Vivian Maier

    The Life and Work of Street Photographer Vivian Maier

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    Vivan Maier was a nanny, and nothing more than that for all outward appearances. But she lived a double life – part of the time she was a nanny, part of the time she was a street photographer in Chicago, IL with an acute eye for catching people in just the right moment. She never…

  • Life Through a Leica | Chicago magazine

    Life Through a Leica | Chicago magazine

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    This article from Chicago Magazine profiles photographer Art Shay’s favorite subject – his wife Florence. The photo series is simply amazing, and nothing I type here can possibly do justice to what you will find, so click the link and see for yourself. Life Through a Leica | Chicago magazine

  • Photographing Earth from the Cupola on the International Space Station

    Photographing Earth from the Cupola on the International Space Station

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    PetaPixel has an fantastic article covering how the ISS astronauts take snapshots of our little ball of rock. It’s a short read but the photos are outstanding. Photographing Earth from the Cupola on the International Space Station.

  • Einstein – The Art Of Adam Magyar

    Einstein – The Art Of Adam Magyar

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    Adam Magyar is a Hungarian born artist with an unusual technique of capturing instants in time. Using gear that he built himself from high speed scanners, he records images from the vantage point of a subway train passing through a station that are unique in that they produce prints that can be as large as…

  • The Lens Is Standard, the Photos Anything But – NYTimes.com

    The Lens Is Standard, the Photos Anything But – NYTimes.com

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    Jerome Delay is a photographer for Associated Press who uses a 50mm F1.4 lens exlusively. He works in Africa, covering conflicts in various areas there, and captures amazing photos with his self imposed limitation. Here is a gallery of his work and a short article explaining his reasoning behind the choice of lens. The Lens…

  • Frogs and Moon

    Frogs and Moon

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    So I went out tonight to try and snap a decent shot of the super-moon. I started out with a low ISO of 200 and aperture of 11 on my Canon 75-300 mm zoom. I wasn’t really getting satisfactory results though – that lens is hard to focus. Shutter speeds of around 125 – 320…

  • 25 Vintage Police Record Photographs «TwistedSifter

    25 Vintage Police Record Photographs «TwistedSifter

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    So today I came across the website Twisted Sifter, an Australian image blog that has some great finds. This is one of them – police photos from the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s around Sydney and New South Wales. Warning – graphic images. 25 Vintage Police Record Photographs «TwistedSifter.