Here’s a Flickr photo gallery of the Traveling Geeks in London last week. Cambridge photo set to follow soon.
July 14, 2009
BROWSING CATEGORY Photography
March 24, 2009
Photo Finder will find you wherever you are
The Facebook photos application has been by far Facebook’s biggest success: The easy to use interface for uploading pics from your computer and then brilliant point-and-click tagging of friends has proved intensely viral. There are now more than 15 billion photos on Facebook, making it the largest collection of pictures in human history. More than 850 million new photos are uploaded a … Continue reading
January 22, 2009
The four personas when shooting a portrait
I loved this wise passage — from the Sunday New York Times Magazine in Behind 'Obama's People' — about the nature of portrait photography, which I've been slowly getting into: In "Camera Lucida: [Reflections on Photography]," his searching reflection on how photographs convey their meaning and emotional power, Roland Barthes suggests that any time a subject steps in front of … Continue reading
January 17, 2009
Real-time photo gallery of Inauguration events
At Magnify.net, founder Steve Rosenbaum has created a live Flickr stream of Inauguration events & photos. The photo gallery will constantly change over the coming days as Flickr users upload images tagged with the word “inauguration.” You can grab the embed code and place the Flash player on your own blog and resize it; Continue reading
January 5, 2009
Documentary short: A drive through the occupied West Bank
Ilove Israel, and have loved it even before my visit there last April as a member of the Traveling Geeks. (Here were my dispatches, including a video of our visit to a Bedouin Arab family’s village of Khawalid in northern Israel.) So it’s always difficult as a journalist to report about something you have an emotional stake in. Continue reading
December 30, 2008
‘Photography not allowed’ from public sidewalk
I’m at a loss for words for the trampling of our constitutional rights in recent years. So I’ll repost a few paragraphs from an entry by Thomas Hawk earlier today: Long Beach Harbor Patrol Says Photography "Not Allowed" From Public Sidewalk. I just got back from shooting for a week in Los Angeles and have to say that the highlight … Continue reading
