Favorite Blogs and Websites
- Managing Your Digital Life Dealing with and using all the electronic stuff we accumulate
- Photofocus Formerly TWIP… photographic news and reviews
The Strobist
THE place to go to to learn about lighting… Also a lot of info on making your own photo gear.
Tag Archives: favorite photos
“He who hesitates is lost.” – Joseph Addison, misquote from his play ‘Cato’
Someone told me today that they really liked my pictures of people, and that I seemed to enjoy taking them. I realized that she was right, but to tell the truth taking pictures of people is something that makes me uncomfortable, sometimes…
About the picture:
I took this while wandering around NYC back in ’07. This was taken in Bryant Park. I really liked how intent everyone was, and the colorful garb the older man is wearing. Even though it was a public place, I was nervous about taking their picture, and as a result I missed a really good shot a few seconds prior. The gentleman on the right had just made what he considered a masterful move, and had leaned back in his chair with a very pleased expression on his face. That would have been an even better picture, I think. Which explains the title of today’s entry.
There was another shot that day that I didn’t take, though for a better reason, I think. But that is a story for another time.
Space Shuttle Atlantis and Hubble Telescope
A photo taken from a point a little south of me that shows the shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Telescope passing in front of the sun.
STS-125 Atlantis and Hubble Solar Transit
The picture was taken by Thierry Legault. More of his photos are here. His work is simply amazing.
The interesting thing to me, though, is that this picture was taken using off the shelf equipment (5 inch refracting telescope and a Canon 5D Mark II digital camera).
Photography has come a long way…
“Why is a raven like a writing desk?”
I’m fascinated by photographers that get an idea and and do a shoot around a theme, or with an elaborate set. I’m rarely that creative, and don’t have the contacts or resources to do the few ideas I do have.
A photographer I like doesn’t seem to have that problem, and can do a lot with little resources…
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Alice in (a Dark) Wonderland, as imagined by Oberonia of Oberonia Photography!
This is my favorite picture of a Mad Hatter ever…
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The most amazing photo I’ve seen so far this year…
And probably for the rest of the upcoming year, too, for that matter.
Don’t forget to zoom in…
(I suppose I could make this a game by adding "Can you find the following things?"
- A man standing next to his "identical twin"?
- An annoyed supreme court justice?
- Someone in the back row taking a picture with their cell phone?
- A person picking their nose?
- A member of the Secret Service?
- The sailor wearing his uniform improperly?
- A port-a-potty?
- A person taking a picture of something other than the main event?
- The only person asleep?
- A horse’s ass
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