All Posts Tagged With: "Photography"

The New York Times Magazine featured a video of photographer Robbie Cooper’s project showing just how focused young video-game players can be.

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The write-up of the companion slideshow provides even more info:

These images of kids playing video games were created by Robbie Cooper, a British photographer who employed a Red camera — a very-high-resolution video camera — and then took stills from the footage. Cooper, who says he was inspired by the camera technique that Errol Morris used to interview people in his documentaries, arranged his equipment so that the players were actually looking at a reflection of the game on a small pane of glass. He placed the camera behind the reflection so that it could look directly into their faces as they played. Cooper and his collaborators, Andrew Wiggins and Charly Smith, videotaped children in England and in New York.

Cooper, who grew up in Britain and Kenya and played a lot of video games as a child, says he tries to capture “people interacting with worlds that aren’t real.” In his last major project, which was published in the magazine in 2007, he photographed participants in Internet-based games with their virtual-world avatars. Cooper is particularly struck by the intensity of people’s experiences while interacting with digital realms. Drew Hugh, shown above, stares so intently at the screen that he doesn’t blink, and his eyes quickly fill with tears, according to his mother. Cooper says, “It’s fascinating that a world that’s purely visual can have a physical effect.”

5:56pm, Northbound Centennial Expressway/I-235
A pair of concerned citizens hang over the 50th Street overpass along the Centennial Expressway letting northbound commuters heading home know how they feel about the government’s proposed economic rescue plan: “No bailout,” read the florescent pink, hand-written signs.

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7:04am, Main Street Parking, Downtown Oklahoma City
Looking south from the 7th Floor of the Main Street Parking garage in downtown Oklahoma City, you can see the Ford Center, new home of the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA team, on the left and the historic Colcord Hotel on the right.

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6:50pm, Edmond Santa Fe High School auditorium
Karla and Ashley wait for the start of Sarah’s induction ceremony for DECA.

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7:15pm, Edmond Santa Fe High School auditorium
Sarah (fourth from the right) takes the officer’s oath during the induction ceremony for DECA. In her first year in DECA, the membership voted her to be Reporter for the club. The club’s adviser speaks very highly of Sarah and believes she has a promising future in the organization.

(Yes, yes, I know… the photo is horrible. Someone… cough, cough… was too lazy to bring his real camera to the event and take decent photos. What kind of a father would do that?)

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11:58am, Park Avenue at Robinson Avenue, Downtown Oklahoma City
Downtown bustles during the noon hour as people venture out to enjoy the beautiful day over their lunch break. Today is absolutely gorgeous and the perfect temperature!

(Check out the Google Maps Street View of this intersection.)

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Strobist posted a really cool video of behind-the-scenes look at a photo shoot (both still photography and high-speed video photography) for the Kung Fu HD network.

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There are many reasons why I never went into photography as a profession, the chief of which is that I’m not good enough to make a good living at it. But the other reason is that good photographers often have to go to extraordinary lengths to get a really good, compelling photograph, like this guy…

or this gal…

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You’ll find more great examples here.

There’s just some things I can’t bring myself to doing out of fear of embarrassment and humiliating situations to just plain laziness, which is why I would never be very successful as a professional photographer.

Click to Enlarge • (Image courtesy of NASA)

This image is of dunes of sand and seaweed, sculpted by the ocean currents, in the Bahamas. “The fluted, underwater dunes are formed in much the same way as sand dunes in deserts.” It is my absolute favorite of 30 images posted by Environmental Graffiti that the resurrected from an exhibition in 2000. They explain:

The images you see below were taken at the turn of the Millennium, when NASA’s scientists had a brilliant idea: to scan through 400,000 images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite and display only the most the most beautiful. A handful of the best were painstakingly chosen and then displayed at the Library of Congress in 2000.

We thought that it, in case you missed the exhibition, it would be amazing to dig up these images and provide some wallpapers for you to download. All images are used courtesy of NASA.

The authors made this observation:

At ground level, one can only imagine the sheer beauty of mountain ranges, deserts and deltas seen high up from NASA’s satellites. One can imagine - yes - however, they wouldn’t be quite prepared for the fact that from 400 miles away, the earth transforms into abstract art. The global landscape is impressionist, cubist and pointillist. Mother Nature is an abstract artist.

You can see more images here.

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* Wordless Wednesday became Wordless Thursday this week because somehow I missed that yesterday was Wednesday — how embarrassing. It’s been a crazy, crazy week, which seems to be becoming the norm, unfortunately; sometimes I feel like I’m losing my mind… or at least a day here and there! I suppose it’s appropriate since Wordless Wednesday wasn’t any more “Wordless” than it was “Wednesday.”

This would work perfectly for Wordless Wednesday, but it is just too cool to wait an extra day! A German photography project shows amazing artistry through painting with light…

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Photographic artist Chris Jordan demonstrates visually the result of American consumption. Can you guess what this is?

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