The April 2013 edition ofIslands magazine has some amazing photos taken in Cuba by Canadian photographer Ian Lloyd, including this one of a Cuban photographer using a very old camera. Very, very old. Lloyd’s commentary on the photo is fascinating to think...
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The Vanderbilt University Department of Art welcomes to Space 204 an exhibition of compelling photographs by Jeremiah Ariaz. On display from Thursday, Feb. 21, through Thursday, March 14, Tucumcari documents a once thriving and now uncertain New Mexico community. An opening reception will be held Thursday, Feb. 21, from 4 to 6 pm. The Tucumcari project, four years in...
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On December 31, 2012, I concluded my 366 Days project, an attempt to force myself to think visually by committing to produce one new image every day. I missed two days in the first 19 days of January, but managed to miss only four more days the rest of the year. You can see the 360 images here on a Tumblr site. Some include a bit of commentary, most don’t. Some...
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From MoyModernMet.com: “There’s something incredibly fascinating about viewing the world through upside down reflections, taken through puddles on the street. it’s like we’re seeing the world with a new set of eyes, a perspective most of us are not really used to. It may take a second or two for your eyes to get adjusted to what’s really...
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“Photographer Ron Henry knew his camera strap was a winner. Now he just needed to get the word out on the cheap,” says Inc. magazine in a profile of BlackRapid, which makes a series of innovative camera straps and accessories. This story combines 3 of my favorite things: photography, entrepreneurism and social...
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For the past four decades photographer Jim McGuire has photographed Nashville’s musical artists, creating a collection of images that The Tennessean’s Peter Cooper rightfully calls “delightful when considered for its artistic value and crucial when considered as a historical documentation of Music City’s musicians.” Cooper continues:...
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So much for the megapixels war. Researchers at the Duke University Imaging and Spectroscopy Program have built a supercamera that can take gigapixel pictures. That’s 1,000 megapixels. InnovationNewsDaily.com reports on the new gigapixel camera’s technology, which researchers say could have military, commercial and civilian applications. The gigapixel camera...
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The Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville is featuring an exhibition of the works of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. The Frist Center describes Burtynsky’s work as documenting “the topographical landscape as it has been irrevocably altered by industries that feed the world’s appetite for material goods.” Says The Frist Center:...
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Do not miss the fantastic exhibition of portraits by Juan Pont Lezica now at the Parthenon in Nashville’s Centennial Park. Nashville Arts magazine explains: “Juan Pont Lezica’s new series of photographs, which may well have started life as a whim, has blossomed into a meticulous, quirky arcade in which much-loved art masterworks have been re-cast with living...
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Check out the photography of Barrett Hedges, a photographer from Tullahoma, Tennessee, whose photograph of a charging brown bear in Katmai National Park in Alaska won a National Geographic award in 2010. Good stuff. I purchased a small print of another of his images, of an ice-encrusted tree in Yellowstone National Park, after meeting Hedges at his booth at the Main...
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The resolution of the 8-megapixel camera in the iPhone 4S is rather astonishingly good for such a small lens and sensor. Here are a couple photos I took today of a similar subject. One photo was taken with my iPhone 4S, the other with a Canon 5D Mark II equipped with a Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 zoom. The Canon is a 21-megapixel pro-level camera. Neither photo has been altered...
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West Coast commercial advertising photographer Tim Mantoani has captured famous photographers posing with their most iconic images for his new book ‘Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends’. (Click link or thumbnail to buy the hardcover book at Amazon, $37.80. There also is a limited edition version that costs more.) Yahoo has some of...
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Here is some absolutely stunning time-lapse cinematography of Yosemite National Park. The video is the result of a collaboration between videographers Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty. You can see more on their Project Yosemite website. Be sure to expand the video to fill your whole...
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I went out and shot some pictures with an old Nikon F camera today – first time I’ve shot non-digital in almost a decade, and first time I’ve shot film with something other than a disposable camera in about 15 years. The camera – similar to the one pictured here. belonged to my granddad, Howard Forrest Henry. He used it to create photographs in the...
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Kodak teeters on the brink of oblivion. Yahoo! Finance economics editor Daniel Gross summarizes the fall of the iconic brand founded more than a century ago by George Eastman: “In many ways, George Eastman would be enthusiastic at the democratization of film. Cameras today are as easy to use as pencils. Everyone is a photographer and can afford the devices and tools...
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The Arts Company introduces a two-month celebration of photography with the eight South Light photographers featured in the exhibition, The South Through Eight Lenses & A Code. Accompanying the exhibition is a Salon Saturday Festival, featuring: special photography events; expert panel discussions; master class presentations, including a street photography excursion...
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Ever seen Nashville through the eyes of those considered to be “disposable” members of our community? Soon, you will have the chance to do just that while enjoying good food, music and the company of others who want to give back. The DISPOSABLES is a benefit for The Contributor, a street newspaper produced and sold by homeless and formerly homeless Nashvillians....
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The Daily Beast’s Alice Cavanaugh speaks with famed Memphis photographer William Eggleston on the latest book of his photographs, Chromes, which showcases 364 images selected from a catalogue of thousands of transparencies housed in the Eggleston Artistic Trust in Memphis. Most of these images have never been seen before. Chromes, says Cavanaugh, documents a very...
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Nashville’s creative economy now ranks fourth nationally, a new report says, trailing only Washington, D.C., New York City, and Los Angeles. The “Creative Vitality Index” is produced by the Western States Arts Foundation. The Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission has the details. The CVI is a statistical tool to benchmark a state or city’s creative...
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Life Magazine has released breathtaking new photographs, including several vivid full-color images, offering a never-before-seen look at the war-weary soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge who fought through the frozen Ardennes Forest in a mountainous region of Belgium in the dead of winter. They show soldiers on both sides battling the frigid weather as they fought each...
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Yahoo’s latest installment of its wonderful “Snapshots of the Week” features a white rainbow, purple hearts and lovable penguins, plus other amazing shots from around the...
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Studio East Nashville, ending its four-year run, presents a photography exhibition for two days only, this weekend. The ƒ-Stops Here is a juried exhibition of recent work by six Nashville photographers. All six participants are members of an underground group of female photographers located in Nashville and throughout the mid-South. Click the thumbnail for...
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PhotoWhoa is a new group-buying portal that is kind of like Groupon for photographers. Like Groupon and other sites which offer items at discount prices, PhotoWhoa requires a large number of buyers to purchase the same item in order to trigger the “deal” and make the product or service available at the low price. Sign up at PhotoWhoa.com to get deal...
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The current edition of Nashville Arts Magazine features the photos of Alan Messer, considered one of the world’s top music photographers. The online and print edition feature some amazing photos of Johnny Cash, Stevie Ray Vaughn, John Lennon, Keith Richards, Bill Haley, Sammie Davis Jr., and dancer Rudolph Nuryev. During the 1980s, Messer was one of Music...
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The new December 2011 edition of Nashville Arts Magazine includes a feature on local painter and photographer Anne Goetze and her new photographic collection entitled “Clothesline,” a new series of photographs snapped in rural locales The images are on display through December 23 at The Arts Company, 215 5th Avenue North in downtown...
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The Nashville Scene’s annual photography issue is out, featuring the winners of a photo contest involving photos submitted by readers and judged by both a panel of judges and by readers. Some of the images are quite good. Others make me wish I’d submitted a few of my own. I do very much like the photo submitted by Chris Wage – his is the thumbnail...
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I made my first attempt at time-lapse photographer over the Thanksgiving holiday. It is a time-lapse view of the drive from Franklin, Tennessee (south of Nashville) to Knoxville. The trip, approximately 180 miles, took 2 hours and 23 minutes by car. This video, comprised of 1,710 images shot via time-lapse photography every 5 seconds during the trip (using a Canon T2i...
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Nashville International Airport is currently hosting (through July 15, 2012), an exhibition of the fabulous photographs of John Guider, a Nashville commercial photographer whose book, The River Inside, features photographs taken along a 2,000-mile canoe trip that took Guider from a small creek behind his Nashville-area home to the Gulf of...
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Did you know that the Nashville Zoo offers animal photography classes – for adults and for kids? Well, you know now. The classes are taught by wildlife photographer Christian Sperka, and involve both classroom instruction and zoo trail experience. The photo of the mandarin duck over there on the right? I took it in 2007 at the Nashville...
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I admit it. I am a recovering addict. Digital photography saved me. Read my story...
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Nashville Arts Magazine’s November issue profiles photographer Jerry Atnip, whose latest book of photography is entitled Gone South: A Collection of Images from the American South. The book is not currently available on Amazon but is available via his...
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Nashville Business Journal has been focusing its photographer’s lens on the “Occupy Nashville” protest happening just a few blocks away from the weekly business newspaper’s offices. Here are links to two NBJ photo galleries: Occupy Nashville protest – October 6, 2011. Who are the Occupy Nashville protesters? – Oct. 20, 2011. (My own...
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My friend Blake Wylie has been doing some amazing photography using a 160-year-old process called “ambrotype.”An ambrotype is a photograph that creates a positive image on a sheet of glass using the wet plate collodion process. That’s Blake in an ambrotype self-portrait made by photographing himself in a mirror, with a 12-second exposure. Check out...
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The Ashland City Times profiles award-winning photographer Mike Rutherford. “His work reflects a detailed mosaic of human expression, which includes aging faces of the Lost Boys of the Sudan, suburban adolescents celebrating their uniqueness, as well as portraits of musical icons such as Dolly Parton, George Strait, Ray Charles and Conway Twitty,” says the...
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Clarksville’s Customs House Museum is currently hosting Sacred Access, an exhibit of photographs by Anthony Scarlati, a fine art portrait photographer and photojournalist known for his soulful and thought-provoking images. A native of Chicago, Scarlati has spent more than twenty years working in the entertainment, sports and equine industries. His published photo...
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The Trahern Gallery at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN, hosts a new photography exhibit, “The Urban Landscape: In and Out of the Margins,” featuring images of decaying urban landscapes. The images – crumbling brick walls, rusty chain link fences, broken vending machines – “depict an urban landscape weathered by the repetition of life. The...
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A 12-year-old boy from England has become the youngest member of the prestigious Royal Photographic Society. Here’s the story from the Daily Mail, which reports that Sam Kaye’s entries were judged the best among photos submitted by “hundreds” of photographers, and “fellows of the world’s oldest photographic society were shocked to...
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Salt & Truth is the fourth book from American photographer Shelby Lee Adams. This collection of 80 new photographs, taken over the past eight years, continues a project the artist has been working on now for over 30 years. Together these powerful images of the hollow dwellers of eastern Kentucky, represent a singular access to a world that is historically not very...
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One of the first cameras I ever used was a Voightländer Perkeo II, a smallish folding camera that used 120 film in the 6×6 format. The camera was made in the early 1950s, before I was born. I had to carry a separate Vivitar light meter that was about the size of a roll of 35mm film. Once, around the age of 15, on a family vacation out west, I accidentally dropped...
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I’m looking forward to the release at the end of this month of North South East West, a hardcover collection of photographs by Richard Benson, former dean of the Yale Art School, published by New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Pre-order at Amazon for...
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The Huffington Post admits to being a little creeped out by the great new coffee-table photography book, Chicks With Guns, by photographer Lindsay McCrum. Photography, women & guns. What’s not to love about that? Available in hardcover at Amazon for...
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