Empire State

sustainable jewellery

Amanda Vandermeer and Paul O'Grady have collaborated on a photographic project called "Sustainable Jewelry"—"marrying nature photography with fashion," says Brendan Seaton—and Brendan has posted some of the pictures on his blog.this is really a great initiative , one that would help photographers like us .

Getty Claiming Copyright to National Archives Images and Selling Them

It seems that Getty Images learned a few years ago that they could buy 4x5 negatives of images from the US National Archives for $5 each. They bought thousands. Now they are selling these same images through their stock agency and claiming copyright on them. The vast majority of the images in the National Archives were taken by government employees and are public domain.

As public domain images, these images belong to us, the U.S. public. Getty, or anyone else, has absolutely no right to claim copyright to these images and sell them.

We need to spread the word on this, and any of Getty's customers who have paid to license such images should demand an immediate and full refund.

Getty Claiming Copyright to National Archives Images and Selling Them

It seems that Getty Images learned a few years ago that they could buy 4x5 negatives of images from the US National Archives for $5 each. They bought thousands. Now they are selling these same images through their stock agency and claiming copyright on them. The vast majority of the images in the National Archives were taken by government employees and are public domain.

As public domain images, these images belong to us, the U.S. public. Getty, or anyone else, has absolutely no right to claim copyright to these images and sell them.

We need to spread the word on this, and any of Getty's customers who have paid to license such images should demand an immediate and full refund.

wat ya think of this???

I would really be happy if some one would guess what this really is ....
well , if ya got no clue......I was just messing around in Photoshop and this happend. It kinda reminds me of a marble... a marble with an eye in it

pause

This is easily my favourite shot I have ever taken. It was the last shot on what was most likely my last roll of film for a while. A couple pieces of white paper, a dark room, a cable release and a manually released flash was all it took (can't forget to thank Kate for dropping the water! I only have two hands).



As usual sharpness and quality is lost due to scanning, but I think it still looks great!

Birds

I went to Waterloo's public zoo/park and tried to get some shots of the animals in the cages. Out all the shots of llama's, rabbits, deer and turkeys, it was the free animals that gave me the best shot.

200mm - f2 - 1/500th

the tint in the shot is what that impressed me the most. thanks to the sun , the shot came really kool.....

floral inspiration

I took this in my backyard on a sunny day when I got home from work. I dont know if the settings I have put underneath the picture are correct, but I am 85% sure thats what I used.

200mm - f5.6 - 1/1000th


The past few days I have been taking my camera with me to work. On my lunch break I wander around and look for interesting things. I will post up some of the shots when I get them developed.

they needed to talk

The details are a bit sketchy now, but everyone agrees the picture was taken in Memphis, Tennessee, on a late summer night in 1973. Karen Chatham, the young woman in blue, recalls that she had been out drinking when she met up with Lesa Aldridge, the woman in red. Lesa didn't drink at the time, but both were 18, the legal age then. As the bars closed at 3 a.m., the two followed some other revelers to a friend's house nearby. In the mix was a 30-something man who had been taking pictures all night. "I always thought of Bill as just like us," Karen says today, "until years later, when I realized that he was famous...."
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tripod resolution

Every now and then when the moon is almost full I grab my camera. I think it's because I love the phrase "waxing gibbous moon." Waxing is the opposite of waning; it means it's getting bigger. And gibbous is the opposite, or the complement, of crescent; it means a partial moon larger than a half moon. I've always wanted to title a picture Waxing Gibbous Moon.

Two nights ago I took the camera out by the garage and took this. I tell myself in those situations that there's no time for a tripod. For this shot, I turned on "Anti-Shake" (actually, I never turn Anti-Shake off) and jammed the camera up against the garage door.

When I saw that the exposure wasn't totally sharp and the moon was still blown out (this would be a good application for two quick exposures blended with one of those actions that combines two exposures for extended dynamic range—I'm not just imagining that those exist, am I?), I had one of those "tiny epiphanies" of which my days are full—I realized I dislike tripods on principle. That is, I don't think of myself as a tripoddy kind of person, all finicky and particular. I'm an anti-tripodite.

Real Purple: This unsharp waxing gibbous moon Kind of Blue moon
—a detail from the shot above—is also one of the few times I've ever
actually seen bonafide purple fringing from my 7D and 28–75mm lens.

I have a friend named Christopher Bailey who was once a house painter. I remember keeping him company once four stories above Georgetown. I couldn't leave the window, but Chris was scampering around on boards laid on scaffolding with nothing under him but sidewalk, dizzyingly far below. Now, I'm scared of heights, dramatically so, so just watching him had my stomach in knots. At one point I said, "Chris, aren't you afraid of falling?"

At that, he started jumping up and down on one of the boards, which flexed beneath him and then flung him upwards. He jumped on it like it was a trampoline. "Oh, I don't know," he said, "I just feel like if I fall, I'll get my hands on something."

Bingo. That's how I feel about steadying the camera. I'll use anything and everything to brace the camera on or against—mantelpieces, car windows, someone's back, whatever. I like to extemporize. More than that, I like to think of myself as someone who can extemporize. Even when I do use a tripod, I just jam the camera down on the top plate with my hands—I seldom actually attach the camera to the tripod head. What I realized the other night is that I avoid tripods just because of this self-conception I have—even when they're called for, and would be appropriate and useful. There was really no reason at all not to grab a tripod when I went inside to get the camera the other night.

So here's my resolution. The next time I shoot a waxing gibbous moon (granted, the shot above is another miss), I'm going to get the tripod out, and use it properly. In fact, I'm going to try to use my tripod more often in general. I don't care for "tripod snobs," but being an anti-tripod snob is no better.

jus playing on new year's day

Well I am kinda bored today! It is snowing like crazy and everything is closed so it got me playing with some images from the fall. This is from the Trash the Dress shoot. We had a blast and it was freezing cold too!