National Geographic Found
Celebrating 125 years of National Geographic, this Tumblr blog is a curated collection of photography from the archives. Many of the pictures are being published for the first time.
Celebrating 125 years of National Geographic, this Tumblr blog is a curated collection of photography from the archives. Many of the pictures are being published for the first time.
A nice little profile of local Brighton photographer extraordinaire, Lomokev.
The Mirror Project is back! The Mirror Project is back!
This warms the cockles of my nostalgic little heart.
I’m in St. John’s right now. Once you start perusing this excellent photoblog, you’re going to feel like you’re there too.
Photographs from the archive of the New York Times.
The Kiwi Foo Space Program (a weather balloon with an Android device attached) captured some beautiful images.
The story behind one of the winning photographs at this year’s Astronomy Photographer Of The Year that I was lucky enough to attend. This is beautiful.
Portraits of people that tweet, what they tweet, where they tweet.
The world’s first mobile photography conference will take place in San Francisco on September 24th this year, featuring Dan Rubin, Jessica Zollman and more.
Brendan’s latest product looks like it’ll be a thing of beauty. But he needs help getting it funded on Kickstarter. If you like taking pictures with your iPhone, I suggest you back this project.
Homunculi in a landscape of food.
Jessica is gathering all her Instagram photos into one blog. She really has quite an incredible eye.
The humble animated .gif is turning into an art form.
The premise of this work is simple: I meet two or more people on the street who are strangers to each other, and to me. I ask them if they will pose for a photograph together with the stipulation that they must touch each other in some manner. Frequently, I instruct or coach the subjects how to touch. Just as often, I let their tentative physical exploration play out before my camera with no interference.
Matt Webb on photography.
You don’t see comments on like this on Facebook.
Monstrously beautiful images, accompanied by an eye-witness audio account.
I was invited along to the 2010 Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards ceremony in Greenwich but alas, I wasn't able to make it. Looks like it was fantastic.
NASA is now part of Flickr Commons: loads of wonderful science-related pictures with no known copyright restrictions.
It's a small world after all.
Old photos placed on a map. Quite engrossing.
My new favourite Flickr pool.
Unbelievable 3D visualisation created by extracting common points from millions of pictures on Flickr of Rome, Venice and Dubrovnik. As Matt Haughey would say, "Holy shitballs!"
Black ink meets water.
Beautiful photography.
Classic photographs recreated in Lego.
A beautiful use of the Flickr API that allows you to browse photos with a colour picker.
This is the dictionary definition of awesome: schoolkids send a camera into space.
Lomokev is teaching photography in Brighton. Learn from the best.
IFoundYourCamera is a continuous project dedicated to reuniting lost cameras and orphan photos with their original owners.
The “blind astrometry server” is a program which monitors the Astrometry group on Flickr, looking for new photos of the night sky. It then analyzes each photo, and from the unique star positions shown it figures out what part of the sky was photographed and what interesting planets, galaxies or nebulae are contained within.
Use TiltShiftMaker to easily transform your standard photos into fun tilt-shift style miniature pictures.
An experiment in human storytelling, using a photographic heartbeat of 3,214 images to document an Eskimo whale hunt in Barrow, Alaska.
A photography exhibition and book by Jonas Bendiksen of densely populated urban areas around the world.
These thoughts on identity control reminded me of The Laughing Man from the first series of Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex (and not just because Jan Chipchase lives in Tokyo): "People like to manage and manipulate (with various degrees…
Camille Seaman's stunning pictures of icebergs and clouds make me feel small and insignificant. But in a good way.
The beautiful work of David Maisel, including Library of Dust: “. . . these canisters hold the cremated remains of patients from an American psychiatric hospital. Oddly reminiscent of bullet casings, the canisters are literal gravesites. Reacting …
Brighton's own Lomokev gets interviewed by Flickr.
An excellent article that explodes the ludicrous myth that terrorists like to go around taking pictures of potential targets so therefore photographers are dangerous.
This new photojournalism blog is filled with stunning imagery.
A four-year old girl named Adie blogs the photos she takes with her polaroid camera named Polly. That's all.
The police in the UK seem to have problems distinguishing between "tourists" and "terrorists". East mistake to make, I guess.
A haunting series of portraits taken before and after the subjects' deaths.
The latest website from Derek Powazek allows artists and businesses to hook up. Nicely done.
A wonderful series of black and white photographs documenting the growth of photographer Jack Radcliffe's daughter Alison from childhood to adulthood.
Lots of tiltshift photos gathered together in one place.
A gallery of food collected from the web.
Wonderful and funny photographs of people in serendipitous situations.
"The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can." The cumulative effect is mesmerising.
At lunch the other day, Josh was telling me about this magic new WiFi-enabled SD memory card that allows you to upload pictures to Flickr straight from your camera.
Beautiful images of destruction. "I drop the figurine from the same height in complete darkness while the lens of the camera is open. When the figurine hits the ground, the sound triggers the lights to go off for a fraction of a second."
Finding letters everywhere.
They're here! New from Moo: NoteCards. Beauteous.
A nice collection of royalty free texture photos using the Flickr API.
Via Reverend Dan Catt on Twitter comes word of over 10,100,000 getagged photos. Mazel tov!
Flickr's aggregate camera data (preceded by a paid placement from Nikon). Scroll down for graphs.
Dave Gorman tells of being stopped under the Prevention of Terrorism Act while taking pictures of Battersea Power Station. It's all very civilised. One of the coppers uses Flickr herself.
The portfolio of a food photographer.
Some insights into taking pictures of food.
A strange and beautiful portfolio of photographs.
I think Seurat would have liked the fact that all these pictures are made up of pixels. Digital pointillism.
That Sergio is one lucky stiff(y).
This is ridiculous. Target refuses to print a customer's pictures because they look "too professional."
They're funny because they're true.
This blog has a picture taken in Brighton every day.
This is fascinating in a voyeuristic way - photographs found on peer to peer networks from people who are (perhaps accidentally) sharing their entire home folder.
This is *exactly* the kind of thing that Tim Berners-Lee had in mind when he invented the World Wide Web: pictures of dogs, dressed as bees.
Pictures of my band. My, what a grim-looking lot we are.
Flickr will be doing publishing on demand. Looks good.
A nice homage to Cindy Sherman.
A nice implementation of my JavaScript image gallery on a really nicely designed site
This is the plain vanilla look.
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