Blowing smoke in front of the camera makes for a nice effect.
We really have the worst time ever going out and exploring shit in the bright California sunshine.
East Bay, CA | 2011
Go out and explore shit.
Ulysses was super excited to check out my camera when I happen to run across him in Hayes Valley out in San Francisco. Check out his camera p0rn blog SF Camera Styles - it’s magnificent.
As you may know, today marks the tenth anniversary of the Afghan war’s beginning, the longest war in US history. Here is a collection of what are, in my opinion, some of the best pieces of photojournalism from the past ten years of fighting. These are by some of the most talented conflict photographers out there.
1. Tim Hetherington. Soldiers near the village of Donga use a white phosphorus incendiary bomb against insurgents.
2. Robert Nickelsberg. January 2004. US Marine Corporal Gravenese patrols Asadabad in Kunar province. Ten kilometers from the Pakistan border.
3. David Guttenfelder. November 2009. Pech Valley, Kunar Province. An Afghan soldier trains on a firing range.
4. Damon Winter. 1st Battalion, 87h Infantry, 10th Mountain Division. Done with an iPhone.
5. Kevin Frayer. May 2011. A USMC Cobra helicopter fires diversionary flares near FOB Edi in Helmand.
6. Anja Niedringhaus. June 2011. Lance Cpl. Blas Trevino of the US Marines arrives at Edi’s field hospital on a medevac chopper.
7. Tyler Hicks. Soldiers are dropped off by helicopters in Charbaran Valley.
8. Lynsey Addario. Medevacs for the 82nd Airborne pick up wounded soldiers in Helmand.
9. Chris Hondros. Badghis Province. Sgt. John Barton heads up to begin morning watch.
This is of course, far from comprehensive.
Kevin Cooley created these great long exposures with flash lights in Iceland.
Now obsessed with this guy’s website. Click that link.
This is so good (per my last reblog of Photojojo). I love this kind of travel site so much more than the Gogobots and TripAdvisors of the world. Different intent, I know — but this makes me want to hop on a plane right now… and the discovery of things to do when I get there? Well, that’s part of the joy in traveling.
Which reminds me that I need to start diving into old blog posts from Vietnam and start writing again this weekend.
More Führer. This time it looks like a bucolic meeting, but look closer: there is something special about this picture, can you guess it?
The “solution” is in this wonderful page (scroll to year 1937, click in the image and voilà!)
Hint: Dictators - 1.
That is a pretty stellar page.
jstn:
Discovery launch, as recorded by an iPhone from a plane.
Hey look to your left, that’s a freakin’ shuttle - it takes people TO SPACE. And I’ll just capture it with my PHONE.
(via pauloctavious)
