Finally got my blog configured in Flickr and I’m testing out the blogging feature. Got my fingers crossed.
So, I was able to blog a photo from Flickr to here, which is pretty cool. However, the configuration is limited and I can’t seem to get the blog post to style the way I want with the right image size and class and there doesn’t seem to be a way to assign a category, so I’m afraid it’s not all that useful.
I took this photo of Richmond Harbor at sunset when I was out for a walk with my wife the other day. Not a bad shot considering it’s from my light-challenged phone.
I can’t sleep so I’m up searching for my photos from last weekend’s Wildflower Century up in Chico. There’s a company Photo Crazy who sets up triggered cameras at cycling events to take shots of the riders. There’s a big clock by the camera and you’re supposed to remember the time your pic was snapped so you can hunt it down later on their website.
I was a little delirious by time I rolled by their cameras after lunch, so I couldn’t exactly remember when the shots were taken, but I found them soon enough.
They aren’t messing around any more with the watermarks. I guess they figure that the new content aware functionality in PhotoShop CS4, they can’t be too careful.
They want 25 bucks for hi-res images of these shots which is a little stiff, but I’ll think about it. They’re not bad. Normally they give you advanced warning with some signage that you’re approaching the cameras. I might have just had my head down fighting the infernal wind, but I was totally surprised when I came across the cameras.
I’m not 100% sure that setting a camera with a flash to have a reflection street sign in the background was the wisest decision ever. They probably could have done without the transmission tower as well. Who makes these decisions?
Paris 26 Gigapixels is a stitching of 2346 single photos showing a very high-resolution panoramic view of the French capital (354159×75570 px). Dive in the image and visit Paris like never before!
Very, very cool. The Detail is simply incredible. Make sure to check it out in full screen.
Explanation of how the “world’s largest image” was made including the photography, the stitching and the rendering on the project blog.
An exhibition of Henri-Cartier Bresson is coming to New York’s MOMA in April. Here are the notes from the MOMA website:
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) is one of the most original, accomplished, influential, and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography, and his uncanny ability to capture life on the run made his work synonymous with “the decisive moment”–the title of his first major book. After World War II (most of which he spent as a prisoner of war) and his first museum show (at MoMA in 1947), he joined Robert Capa and others in founding the Magnum photo agency, which enabled photojournalists to reach a broad audience through magazines such as Life while retaining control over their work. In the decade following the war, Cartier-Bresson produced major bodies of photographic reportage on India and Indonesia at the time of independence, China during the revolution, the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death, the United States during the postwar boom, and Europe as its old cultures confronted modern realities. For more than twenty-five years, he was the keenest observer of the global theater of human affairs–and one of the great portraitists of the twentieth century. MoMA’s retrospective, the first in the United States in three decades, surveys Cartier-Bresson’s entire career, with a presentation of about three hundred photographs, mostly arranged thematically and supplemented with periodicals and books. The exhibition travels to The Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
Might take some time, but eventually the show will travel out west to SF where I will definitely see it.
Until recently, I had a poster of this Bresson image, En Brie hanging in my place:
“Inspired by how some animals can blend into their environment, Liu Bolin from China uses camouflage principles to create amazing contemporary art.”
Has to be seen to be believed. More here. The one with the bulldozer is amazing. I had to work hard to find Liu. Really incredible.
Diablo got more than a dusting of snow yesterday. There are some amazing pictures of the frosty, snow-blanketed Mt. Diablo on Flickr here and here.
My girlfriend sent me a link to these beautiful B&W images of African animals by British photog Nick Brandt. There are so many amazing shots, it was hard to pick which ones to display here. I urge you to check them out.
Hard to get tired of taking pics of the sweeping beach and stunning mountains of Ipanema. It’s truly one of the world’s finest beaches. Undoubetly, it is one of the best places in the world for people watching, especially on Sunday when the street adjacent to the beach shuts down to traffic and turns into a day long parade of dog walkers, joggers, strollers, cyclists, rollerbladders and gawkers.Truly, truly, truly fantastic. (add musical accompaniment here)
More images on Flickr, as always. I just wish we had more sunny days and less rain, though it did make for some dramatic pictures.
I’ve been around with the blog quite a bit lately. I came across a plugin, MTFlickrPhotos, that allows you to pull in content from Flickr into Movable Type, which is pretty cool. I’ve got my photos here.
The way I have it set up, it shows medium size images of the last 20 that I’ve uploaded to my Flickr account. I’d like to show sets and collections, but I can’t figure out how to do it and there doesn’t seem to be a way in the documentation.
I’d eventually like to have something like Jeff Croft’s site. It’s powered by Django, which I suppose I should learn. I’m just too lazy right now.