Rest in Peace: Wartime Relics Reclaimed by the Land and Sea

Saw this article on Flipboard. Photographs are beautiful.

Dietmar Eckell's series "R.I.P" is a utopian vision. His images of abandoned and neglected military installations and equipment around the globe suggest a peaceful world where these instruments of aggression, no longer needed, have been left to rust or sink into the sea. Since there are no people in the pictures, however, it's easy to imagine the series as a post-apocalytpic future where pieces of military hardware remain as monuments to mankind's folly.

{His website is cool.}

An abandoned Sherman tank off the coast of Saipan, a Soviet radio telescope in Latvia, runways on Tinian Island, Mariana Islands, launching point for the atomic bomb attacks against Japan, and this: Tower forts built during World War II to defend against air attacks off the coast of England.

Lift that house

On Thursday 3 April 2014, as I turned onto Westminster Road, in Cedarhurst, I saw these trucks:

I thought back to when our house in Chichester had to be jacked up, to have the foundation fixed. Never saw that, just the before and after.

And yesterday, Thursday 10 April 2014, I saw this, the end result of the lifting; but, clearly, more remains to be done.

Photographer Explores the Very Extensive Network of Tunnels Under Montreal

Andrew Emond, a Canadian-based photographer and explorer, has been on a mission since 2009: he’s creating an absolutely incredible resource by documenting the 3,000 mile-long network of tunnels hidden underneath the streets of Montreal.
Titled Montreal Underground, Emond’s recently redesigned website takes you on an extremely unique journey of Montreal’s underground infrastructure, some of which dates back as far as 1832. The photographs he captures during his adventures shine a light — both literally and figuratively — on an entirely new, almost ethereal world, as you can see in a collection of his photos below:

St-Pierre collector sewer.

Old Cote St Paul Collector Sewer.

Image of a Planet and Its Star Over 63 Light Years Away

Although it might not seem like much, the photo above might just be the most extraordinary image you have ever seen. Not because of crazy high megapixel count or amazing composition or even subject matter — we’ve seen images of planets orbiting stars before — but because it is the first ever image of a planet and its star over 63 light years away.

The image was taken by the Gemini Planet Imager, an incredibly powerful instrument that sits right here on Earth — in Chile to be exact. Using the magic of Adaptive Optics, they were able to capture this groundbreaking image of the 10-million-year-old planet Beta Pictoris b orbiting the massive star Beta Pictoris. 

Super Creative iPhone Photos

Robert Capa in colour sheds new light on a black-and-white master

Guardian (UK) article, found on Flipboard.

New immigrants disembarking from the Theodor Herzl, near Haifa, Israel], 1949 -50 Photograph: Robert Capa/International Center of Photography/ Magnum Photos

What a fish

 Article found on Flipboard, from Petapixel.

A few years ago, Bangkok-based photographer Visarute Angkatavanich started selling his work through microstock sites, and so he went in search of some interesting subjects to populate his gallery and generate some sales. Interestingly, he found what he was looking for in his own house: his pet fish. Ever since he was a little boy, Angkatavanich has owned different kinds of fish — everything from goldfish, to guppies, to Siamese fighting fish — and he quickly realized that they made the perfect subjects. “I found that nowadays there are so many different kinds of fish that come in unique shapes, colors and pattern,” he told us over email. “I am fascinated by them, and so I started taking their photo.”

late 2013

Some recent pictures.

Make your own parking spot with this tiny thing. Along 149th Street in Flushing/Whitestone, Saturday 2 November.

André Kertész

Patron came in looking for books on André Kertész. Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Kertész never felt that he had gained the worldwide recognition he deserved. Today he is considered one of the seminal figures of photojournalism.[1][2]

The Fork, or La Fourchette, was taken in 1928 and is one of Kertész's most famous works from this period.[9] 

Distortion#49, one of the images in the Distortion series Kertész took during 1933

 


Patron recommended Of New York ... *

Southern Queens egret

4 in the afternoon. Tuesday 21 May 2013, Brookville Park, Queens.

Delaware

Walking back to Rocinante after taking Magnus to the veterinarian, I saw this street sign:

It always reminds me of the Fats Waller song, (You're a) square from Delaware.

Charleston, S.C. pelican

Looking from Mount Pleasant, across Cooper River from southern tip of Charleston, SC, toward Fort Sumter. 4/8/2013, 2.58pm

Blue water

First one to use the bathroom in the morning.

Spring colors

4/21/13, 5.54pm - magnificent Magnolia tree just off Northern Boulevard, on 149th Place

 5/4/2013, 6.09pm - courtyard littered with fallen petals from cherry trees

Mariposa

9/1/2012, 3.08pm  —Mountain Top Arboretum (mtarboretum.org‎)

County Road 23C

Tannersville, NY 12485

Roman Vishniac (1897-1990): "best known for his scenes of Jewish life in Eastern Europe in the years before the Second World War."

Rodrigo Moya

http://goo.gl/fFDTX

item in February ? 2013 issue of the New Yorker

Child care

Cared for Charlie Schuyler for a couple of hours Saturday last.

Hyper photos

A story in Slate, This Picture Is Worth 1,000 Pictures.
Hyperphotos are to panoramic photos what Google Earth is to a globe. You can keep clicking and zooming and clicking and zooming, seemingly endlessly, until you find yourself on a dramatic balcony, looking up a statue’s nose.  (Try it on the image above. The more one zooms in; the more real the image begins to seem.)

Lytro

Another article from Makeuseof: Lytro Light Field Camera: Snap Happy Or Photo Gimmick?

Described by an employee as “the first major change in photography since photography was invented”, the Lytro light-field camera is certainly a revolutionary device. The camera shakes things up by replacing much of the heavy and sensitive technology in your typical camera with software. Whether or not it’s worth your hard earned money at this stage is still unclear, however. Even the earliest of early adopters might want to think twice about the Lytro, despite the amazing technology and interactive results that are possible.

A typical camera measures the intensity and colour of light of a scene, be it captured on a roll of film or the sharpest digital sensor. Once you’ve taken your snap, Photoshop aside, there’s very little you can do to change the point of focus on a static image. That’s where Lytro differs. By capturing the direction light is moving and then reconstructing this along with color and intensity, Lytro allows you to change your point of focus once the image has been captured. This is called light field technology, and it’s bound to revolutionise the way we take photos.