Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
Taken early (around 8:00 am) in the morning of October 9, 2011 at the Elephant’s Trunk County Flea Market in New Milford, CT. It was a clear morning, the sun was low and produced long, raking shadows. Taken with a Panasonic Lumix LX-3.
This was taken back in December, 2010 with a Panasonic Lumix LX-3. But doesn’t the LX-3 have a very limited zoom range you may ask? And you’d be right – it does. This picture was actually taken in the parking lot of a Sams Store near where live. Garbage was strewn around and this had attracted this flock of seagulls. They were quite close to the ground and didn’t seem to have much fear of the people. As they hovered in the air just over my head it was pretty easy to capture a bunch of them – even with the LX-3. And aren’t seagulls supposed to be near this sea. This was taken about five miles from the nearest body of water (The Hudson River).
This building is on the corner of Hollow Brook Road and Oscawana Lake Road in Putnam Valley, NY. It’s one of a number of businesses that have closed in Oregon Corners since the recent economic crisis. The whole area now looks a little sad. To the best of my knowledge it’s still vacant almost two years after this picture was taken.
We recently had some guests over to our house. My wife wanted me to take some wide shots of our patio so I pulled out an old Quantaray 24mm f2.8 to use with my Sony DSLR. After I finished I put the camera and lens on a table next to my computer. I didn’t know much about this lens so I was browsing the internet looking for additional information when I discovered that it was supposed to have a fairly decent macro capability. In front of me on the table was a bowl of apples so I thought I’d give it a try. This is the result.
An interesting site for browsing the work of a number of well-known photographers the Red List’s manifesto describes the site as follows:
With more than 100,000 images, 6,000 profiles and links, arranged into more than 600 sections and categories, the Red List organizes and concentrates the wealth of images to be found online. After all, what is a list if not a tool to manage infinity? So to manage the Internet’s visual infinity, the Red List is organized by genres – photography, cinema, fine art, fashion, and so on – with lists inside each genre to guide image researchers.
via The Red List.
The site has several sections, one of which is photography (the others are: Fine Arts; Film; Graphic Design; Furniture Design; Architecture; Set Design; Fashion; and Muses).
The photography section is organized (like all the other sections) by genre (17 genres in total including Pioneers; Architecture & Materials; Avant-gardism and Experimentation; Conceptual; Existentialism; Fashion; Humanism; Industrial; Landscape & Travel; Nude & Body; Outstanding; Pictorialism; Portrait; Social Documentary; Still Life; Street; War Reporting & Photojournalism. Each genre is sub-divided by photographer.
The site has a lot to see; is well-organized and attractively presented. However, the overall experience is marred by one very annoying feature: after a while a dialogue pops up asking you for your email address. If there is a way to dismiss this without entering an email address I’ve yet to find it.