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Awesome set of food photos with little people on them. They’re buried in a Flash interface (grr, Flash), but it’s worth the trouble to find them. Skip the intro, click on “minimiam”, and then select one of the “galeries” (primeurs, gourmandise, etc.). (via dtb)
Send in a photo showing your profile, and Turn Your Head will produce a wooden pedestal with the outline of your sillouette (the photo on the site makes more sense…).
Music video for Breathe Me by Sia, that song at the end of the last episode of Six Feet Under.
Profile of designer/illustrator/photographer Michael Elins and how he uses Macs to get his work done. “It’s hard for someone like me to talk about technology, because the Mac has gotten to the point where it’s a nonissue. It’s so good and so fluid, so fast and so freaking reliable that it becomes something I really take for granted.”
Story of how Kodak developed the first digital camera in 1975 and then sat on the technology for years and years until they finally entered the market and, luckily for them, were able to grab the top stop from Sony and Canon.
“One summer day in France in 1826, Joseph Niepce took the world’s first photograph. It’s a photo of some farm buildings and the sky. It took an exposure time of 8 hours. Voila! It had to feel pretty incredible, like magic.”
Update: Lots more info about this photo here. (thx Paul)
For my photography nerd friends who own Nikon D70 cameras, here’s the Nikon D70 focus test chart. Looking closely at some photos I shot yesterday, I may have to try this out.
If you’re a Flickr user, you can now get a book of your photos printed up for display on your coffee table or to put in your bathroom bookshelf. I’ve got one of these and it’s neater than I expected.
Nikon is releasing a pair of digital cameras with built-in wifi. The cameras will only send photos via wifi to a designated Nikon application, but I wonder how long it will be before someone hacks the firmware to send those photos anywhere…like to Flickr on the fly.
For my photography nerd friends: testing the accuracy of a SLR camera focusing system.
The NY Times has photos and video from Hurricane Katrina.
Photo slideshow of where Manhattanites find the beach amongst the skyscrapers and bustling streets of the city.
Here’s a fun Flickr set: objects that look like faces.
An alleged pervert on the NYC subway was caught by cameraphone and the picture was posted to Flickr. No word on an identification yet. (thx newley)
Astronomers have determined the precise location and time that Ansel Adams took a famous photograph of the moon in Yosemite National Park and are going to attempt to recreate the shot in September. The same forensic team has previously determined when Van Gogh painted “White House at Night”.
Barcode tattoos + mobile phones with cameras = business card (or, say, a list of your sexual preferences) on your arm.
A contemporary photo taken with a circa-1914 Kodak. For some reason I always thought old photos looked old because they were old. But really it’s mostly the camera’s doing.
A how-to on getting good B&W photos from a digital camera. Slower has another technique.
Photos of Paris by Eugene Atget, as well as contemporary versions for comparison.
Big exhibition of Lee Friedlander’s photography at the MoMA until the end of August. It’s interesting to see the influence Friedlander’s work has had on some of the photobloggers I follow.
New bookmark: interesting Flickr photos from the last 24 hours, automagically determined. PageRank for photos, sorta.
Flickr reaches the 1,000,000 member threshhold. I wish Flickr publicized everyone’s number so that I could lord my early-adopter status over everyone in a more quantitative manner.
I liked these “blue” photos by Zach on Jake’s site.
Photo slideshow of Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France.
How to make a pinhole camera that looks like a real camera out of paper.
Some iPhoto 5 tips and techniques for managing your digital photos.
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