Something I've been playing around with, ...I like the concept and look of images that are stamped on film. I guess you could classify this as the ultimate fakery; pasting digital camera photos on top of film, but I like it for some reason.
Wilson A. Bentley's snowflakes
"Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated., When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind."
Possum Steve, the fearless catfood-eating rodent of the night:
I'd like to stay in Antarctica and take pictures for awhile too. I bet that chick is cold though. I bet its cold all the freaking time.
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Sometime soon I'm gonna dust the rust off my 35 mm and buy some 50 speed velvia. I'd like to go out and make some nice long exposures of sunsets and plants and various other stuff that I can't think of right now. Then i could go back inside and drink some coolade and watch summore tv. That'd be grand.
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And oh, its really nothing, ..its only the most highly resolved solar image ever taken:
This is really strange.
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I've got a whole bunch of photos that should show up here sometime. Fall down here in Arkansas has been really nice. I've got a smattering (I just said smattering) of photos from our trip to Eureka Springs. Some of them are ok.
I just came across a link to an old Atlantic archive article called Autumnal Tints.
Some guy named H. D. Thoreau. Anybody heard of this guy?
I like when he says:
"Let your walks now be a little more adventurous; ascend the hills. If, about the last of October, you ascend any hill in the outskirts of our town, and probably of yours, and look over the forest, you may see well, what I have endeavored to describe. All this you surely will see, and much more, if you are prepared to see it,—if you look for it. Otherwise, regular and universal as this phenomenon is, whether you stand on the hilltop or in the hollow, you will think for threescore years and ten that all the wood is, at this season, sear and brown. Objects are concealed from our view, not so much because they are out of the course of our visual ray as because we do not bring our minds and eyes to bear on them; for there is no power to see in the eye itself, any more than in any other jelly. We do not realize how far and widely, or how near and narrowly, we are to look. The greater part of the phenomena of Nature are for this reason concealed from us all our lives. The gardener sees only the gardener's garden. Here, too, as in political economy, the supply answers to the demand. Nature does not cast pearls before swine. There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate,—not a grain more."
Of course, ...my thoughts exactly.
Link:
Photoblogs.org
Its all there. Go there. Good stuff.
Found through photoblogs:
A duck.
...from Noah Grey's Sequoia
Wow, this is amazing.
Surely many more good links on the photoblogs site. It'll be fun to check them out. Nice how the order of the top 255 is determined by user votes. Cream. Just the cream.