Quotes: Margaret Bourke-White
The element of discovery is very important. I don’t repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made…(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned…you would react to something all others might walk by.
Margaret Bourke-White, “Portrait of Myself” by Margaret Bourke-White
Collateral Damage
Counting your blessings. Home destroyed by wildfire. San Bernadino, CA.
Shapes and Abstractions: #1 Stairwell
Stairwell. 50mm @ f/2 – Tri-X Pan, ISO 320
Quotes: Berenice Abbott
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term – selectivity.
Berenice Abbott, in “Infinity” magazine, 1951.
The Ingenuity Of The Photographer
The ingenuity and resourcefulness of photographers (usually poor photographers) will never cease to amaze me. This little tidbit definitely makes the top ten list of ludicrous things photographers have come up with to solve problems while stuck in some third-world country.
At http://www.lenshoods.co.uk/, believe it or not, you can download a lens hood. Thats right, download. Free printable lens hoods for download. Just click your camera, and select from a list of lenses for the appropriate hood.
Can’t find exactly what your looking for? They’ve got you covered. Why not use their little form to build your own custom lens hood.
Just when I thought I had seen it all…
Daily del.icio.us
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User submitted. Very cool, very dark stuff.
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Crazy desktop art, a far cry from Apple’s stock desktop patterns.
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This is no joke, you have to see it to believe it.
Getting Your Blog Shut Down in 3 Steps
How To Get Your Blog Shut Down in 3 Easy Steps
- By Epic Edits
“Have you ever visited a blog or other site expecting to find content, but instead are confronted with an error page of some sort? Isn’t that cool? The first thought that runs through your head is “Wow, this must be a really popular site if they crashed their server†— c’mon, you know it is.”
If you have your own site, I’ll bet you’ve also thought to yourself “I wish I could do that so other people will think I’m cool too.†LOOK NO FURTHER! I’ll let you in on the secret of how to accomplish the appearance of a crashed site. All you need are three things:
An super-great web host (like HostGator)
A database taxing stats plugin (like FireStats)
A spike of traffic
Quote: Russell Lynes
“The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as ‘That’s really a very pleasant little water color you have there.’”
“The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side. … After a long period of gazing (during which he may occasionally squint his eyes), he will approach to within a few inches of the picture and examine the brushwork; he will then return to his former distant position, give the picture another glance and walk away.”
Russell Lynes, in Snobs (1950)
Primary Lenses Vs. Zoom Lenses
How many of you out there are shooting zoom lenses? How many carry only primary lenses? How many carry both? This topic seems to come up quite often as of late, and in this time of technology moving faster than consumers an interesting question arises. Will primary lenses go the way of the dodo?
Discovery’s Planet Earth
The Discovery Channel’s “Planet Earth” documentary began airing on March 25th, and if you haven’t caught it, it’s worth a look. The exceptional cinematography is only overshadowed by the astounding “nature” of the footage itself. I’m not a great lover of nature documentaries as such, although I thought March of The Penguins was brilliant, mainly for technical reasons. However, the execution and production quality of this series is really quite impressive.
A Re-Evaluation Of Goals
Since starting this blog a few months ago on a bit of a whim, the readership has steadily increased, leading me to believe that I must be doing something right. For this reason I have decided to devote more time to building and promoting this site, as well as keeping the content fresh, relevant and more frequent.
The first step is the complete layout re-design that you may have noticed. For the most part everything seems to be working correctly at the moment. However, if anything appears glitchy or out of place, please contact me so I may correct the problem.
For those readers that keep coming back, I thank you for your continued patronage, and hope that you will spread the word about this blog.
I would love to hear any feed back or ideas you may have on how to improve this site. If you have anything to say please leave a comment or contact me if you are so inclined.
Again, I thank you all…
~Origin