Some great photography links we discovered this week purely via Stumbleupon.com
I first discovered the Stumbleupon toolbar and web-surfing tool about four years ago and it put the life back into surfing the web. I’d become mired in visiting the same websites over and over agaon and was finding it hard to stumble upon interesting sites. Then, as if by magic, I stumbled upon StumbleUpon.com and my random web-surfing behaviour changed forever. If you haven’t discovered this amazing tool then click here.
So, here is our selection of the week….
What Stormtroopers Do On Their Day Off: – we’ve all seen shots of Star Wars figurines before and Tokyo even has its own, real-life Trooper in the form of Danny Choo. But, if you have a spare moment, this selection of shots has some great twists on an already potentially overdone theme.
I liked this one in particular…
The website of photographer Cole Rise: this chap has some amazing work and although his site isn’t teeming with shots, the ones he has there are all worth browsing through. Plenty of people are using textures, vignetting and focus on people either jumping or airborne in some way. Cole’s shots have a great feel and I recommend you visit to take a look.
This one caught my eye…. a beautiful moment, wonderfully rendered.
Benjamin Krain, photojournalist: based in the US, Krain has ten years of experience on journalisticand travel photography. His set of shots from Hurricane Katrina are a stunning portrait of a unique and life-changing natural event. Mostly aerial shots, it’s not hard to see why Krain has made a name for himself. His shots are intensely colourful and like much of the best photojournalism, have youquestioning your ability to find beauty in tragic human events. This is a Flash website… so I couldn’t pull any images from it but highly recommend you visit.
Gigapan: I’d come across and cruised through this website before but it’s worth a mention here, although the selection of images on their website is quite hit-and-miss in terms of quality. If you don’t know about Gigapan, here’s a little into from the site:
“GigaPan is the newest development of the Global Connection Project, which aims to help us meet our neighbors across the globe, and learn about our planet itself. GigaPan will help bring distant communities and peoples together through images that have so much detail that they are, themselves, the objects of exploration, discovery and wonder. We believe that enabling people to explore, experience, and share each other’s worlds can be a transforming experience. Our mission is to make all aspects of the GigaPan experience accessible and affordable to the broadest possible community. GigaPan consists of three technological developments: a robotic camera mount for capturing very high-resolution (gigapixel and up) panoramic images using a standard digital camera; custom software for constructing very high-resolution gigapixel panoramas; and, a new type of website for exploring, sharing and commenting on gigapixel panoramas and the detail our users will discover within them. The GigaPan website allows hosting and sharing all kinds of panoramas, and so the robotic GigaPan mount is recommended but is certainly not required to be part of this community.”
NolaPic: The Website of Alfonso Brecciano – is most certainly worth a visit in particular for the way he has dedicated himself to capturing the diverse beauty of his home state of Lousiana. Some great photographs on his pages….
…but this one in particular does it for me.
Foam International Photography Magazine is a nice find and in particular this little feature on young Japanese photographer, Syoin Kajii – whose photographs of waves I first discovered a year or so ago. Awesome stuff. This one is pretty cool.
The Blog of Doug Kim has some lovely articles and photos on it, including this great post on the now famous snowball fight in Times Square, New York, which occured during their recent snowstorms.
Our last link for this week is TimeTales.com: Time Tales is a collection of found photographs. Found at fleamarkets, thriftshops, some are scooped up from streets and alleyways, fallen from an overstuffed bag or torn pocket. Others turn up in a cabinet’s hidden compartment, found while wandering the rooms of an abandoned house. The photos are grouped by period and whilst the navigation could be better, it’s still a great site.
I found this shot in the 1950-1970 collection.
