Life, driven by the projects that sustain it
This has been a thinking vacation. We’re here on our annual pilgrimage to Chautauqua, New York, and the Chautauqua Institution. It’s a place of learning and investigation, teaching and debate. And last week, as it happens, great introspection. Each week here at Chautauqua is measured in by a different theme. Here’s the description of last [...]
Launching the Free iPad Wallpapers gallery
If you’re looking for something different for your iPad backgrounds and lock screens, here is a gallery of some of my recent and more popular-ish photos for your downloading pleasure. They’re resized for 1024×1024 so they should scale and rotate right on the iPad. For a quick preview of the first 18, check the slide [...]
From The Selvedge Yard: DIRTY, DANGEROUS & DESTITUTE | NEW YORK IN THE 70s
DIRTY, DANGEROUS & DESTITUTE | NEW YORK IN THE 70s If you’ve ever spent time in NYC, particularly if you did your time in NYC post 1990, you need to look at this series of photos. It’s funny — the New York I know is in there somewhere, if I look closely, but it’s different, [...]
Sleeveface Photography – Crazy… I didn’t even know this was a meme
Captivating Examples of Sleeveface Photography Some of these things are really terrific. Worth exactly :42 of your day.
Lenses for a typical shooting day
After yesterday’s tome of a post, I had a few questions hit my inbox looking for details on my own shooting equipment, specifically on which lenses I use most often. I love my D300 and was wondering what glass you shoot with most often? For people it looks like maybe an 85 1.4? Great depth [...]
Pete’s Photowalk: The Rebuilding Center
The first photowalk of the holiday season. We ended up on Mississippi Avenue at The Rebuilding Center, one of the coolest, most eclectic home remodeling stores I’ve ever seen. I’d called Chris at the Rebuilding Center the day before — I know they’re sensitive about class-type things going on in the place, and wanted to [...]
Incredible Singapore Grand Prix Pix
Some of these shots blow me away. This is about as close to “Speed Racer” as we can probably get. These are from the first night race in Grand Prix history. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_singapore_grand_prix.html Of particular note, make sure to look at 11 and 23, both taken with a tilt-shift lens to great affect.
Nikon D90 Test Run with Chase Jarvis
I bought a D3 when it first hit the streets and I’m stunned by it every single time I hold it in my hands. Then I take pictures with it. This thing belongs squarely in the middle of the secret lair of the League of Awesomeness. Looks like the D90 is in the wild and [...]
Telling a Brilliant Story with No Words At All
Thanks so much to Daniel Burka for this nod to his friend and photographer Steven Desroches. Desroches took the photo linked below at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. It captures so much brilliance of story-telling composition in one, single frame. Fearless This is, after all, an example of how to describe the wonder of a [...]
Chautauqua Photos
For those interested, I’ve started a flickr set of pictures from around the institution, including some larger pictures of the guest lecturers so far. Yes, most are family pics, OPC (other people’s children), but they’re cute children — what can I say. Click here to head to flickr!
