BREAKING NEWS: T Rex seen taking over the shopping mall. (Taken with instagram)
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Today’s bride looking F.A.B. (Taken with instagram)
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Mini (Taken with instagram)
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A Photo With Impact
This photo really caught my eye, and I couldn’t stop staring at it for a while.
This was taken by White House photographer Pete Souza. It shows President Obama, along with members of the national-security team receiving updates on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House.
It strikes me as really interesting because, it really is a moment in history captured.
Could you imagine JFK being documented during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and then the photo given to the press a few days later?
I’m actually quite shocked by the unprecedented access to key moments in the White House like this. Why did they want to document it? Did they want to show that they took this decision with great care? Will we see more of these kind of photos of key moments? What does this mean for news photography in the future?
A whole host of questions spring to mind. But for now, I really enjoyed studying this photo. It’s an amazing image once you know what is actually happening here.
(Source: Flickr / whitehouse)
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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens →
Like her or loath her, she’s one of the top photographers in the world. This great documentary is a really interesting insight into her career and life.
I was up really early this morning, and have really enjoyed spending an hour with Annie Leibovitz.
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My “A quintessentially British (slightly) Royal Tea Party” shoot, has just been featured on the Rock N Roll Bride Blog.
I can’t tell you how much this means to me as I hold this blog in such high regard. It’s one of THE best wedding blogs out there. And Kat who writes it, is so influential in the wedding business; that this really means so much for me and my wedding photography.
I’ll post the full shoot and details of it later on my Facebook page for Viva Wedding Photography here:
http://www.facebook.com/vivaweddingphotography
In the mean time, if you hear me posting this all over the internet, please forgive me, i’m just a bit excited about it.
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A moment in history.
This little photo may not look like much, but it has probably affected your life in some way.
This was taken on June 11th 1997 by a Philippe Kahn and is the first picture of his daughter Sophie from the maternity ward.
So what’s so special about this then?
Well it was taken on a camera that was integrated into his phone and then wirelessly transmitted to more than 2,000 of his family, friends and associates around the world.
This marks the first known publicly shared picture vie a cell phone and arguably marked the birth of instant visual communications that we all take for granted now.
I bet you look at it a little differently now?
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Warning Graphic Image: Doctors and medics attend to Getty photographer Chris Hondros (foreground) and photojournalist Tim Hetherington (obscured) in a Misrata hospital April 20, 2011.
After the very sad news about the two photographers killed in Libya, I wanted to post something about them. I didn’t know what, but I was so shocked by this image of them in hospital that in looking for other images to post, I kept coming back to this one.
It’s a very brave photographer who feels that they need to cover a conflict, no matter where in the world it is. There is a very long tradition of photographers chasing wars, so that the everyday person, like you and me, can see what is really going on. They are far far braver than me, and i’m ashamed to admit that it’s a side of photography that I don’t really know too much about. And I sometimes take the images for granted, never really thinking about what it takes to make these images.
This isn’t a tribute to the two photographers, who am I to tribute to them. If i’m being totally honest, I hadn’t even heard of them before last night. But if I can do anything for them, it will be to find out more and appreciate war photography. I hope you’ll do the same. -
Mall’s Across America.
“In 1989 I shot about 30 rolls of slide film in malls from Long Island to North Dakota to Seattle. It was hard to tell from the images where they were taken, and that was kind of the point. I was interested in the creeping loss of regional differences. I thought a lot about (photographer Robert) Frank’s “The Americans” as we drove from place to place without any sense of place.
I have always thought that images gain much more meaning with time. Looking at the mall slides it’s clear that their time has come. Last fall, I took them out, borrowed a scanner and loaded in about 160 of the stronger images.”
Michael Galinsky
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SF to Paris in Two Minutes.
An Air France flier found himself with a whole row to himself on a San Francisco-Charles De Gaulle flight, so he set up his SLR and a tripod and shot a time-lapse of the entire flight out the window. As the plane passed over the Arctic, he caught some breathtaking shots of the Aurora Borealis. The Air France crew were apparently very supportive of his project, which is a credit to them.
(Source: vimeo.com)
