. . . with elephants.
A magical photograph by my sister Libba, recording a magical moment at Governor’s Camp in Kenya in the 1970s.
Category Archives: Photography
A TIMOTHY O’SULLIVAN WESTERN PHOTOGRAPH FOR TODAY
Oreana, Nevada in 1867.
O’Sullivan worked for Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardner during the Civil War and took many classic images of that conflict. After the war he traveled with various government-sponsored expeditions into the far West, recording the American frontier just as the Transcontinental Railroad was poised to open it up for expanded settlement and exploitation.
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A FROLIC MAIDEN FOR TODAY
Suburban backyard fantasy. Frolic magazine, 1965.
YOU CAN SAY WHAT YOU WANT ABOUT HITLER
. . . but he was a fun guy to have tea with — a font of amusing jokes and stories.
A HUGER FOOTE PHOTO FOR TODAY
[© 2012 Huger Foote]
White On White
A SALUTE TO KODAK
. . . on the occasion of its filing for bankruptcy. This is a digitized Kodachrome slide from 1957. Below are the subjects some years later, taken with an iPhone. Just not the same.
VENUS
COCA-COLA WORLD
Photo by Jae Song, Belize.
A HUGER FOOTE PHOTO FOR TODAY
[Photo © 2011 Huger Foote]
Tree, desert city.
A KENDRA ELLIOTT PHOTO FOR TODAY
From Kendra's photo blog — Kendra.Elliott Photo.
O CHRISTMAS TREE
POISED
My friend Jae Song took the image above with a new camera system he's just put together — an Olympus E-P1 digital body, two years old, fitted, using an adapter, with a Kern Switar 25mm 1.4 C-mount lens, about fifty years old. The legendary lens, small, ruggedly-built and sensitive, was originally made for Bolex 8mm movie cameras and won't work with a digital camera which has too large of a chip, because it causes excessive vignetting. There are a number of digital cameras with chips small enough to accommodate a lens like this Kern Switar — Jae chose the 2009 Olympus because of its solid construction and retro body design.
The combination makes for a distinctive and to me quite wonderful look — quirky in the way that old lenses used to be quirky, each handling light and focus in a slightly different way. Jae thinks that this has to do with subtle flaws in the glass, which modern manufacturing methods tend to do away with. (The Olympus will also take impressive videos in 780p HD — go here for an example.) In any case, the look seems to harmonize well with the vintage technology of a turntable.
A HUGER FOOTE PHOTO FOR TODAY
[© 2011 Huger Foote]
Despite its subject matter, dead leaves in a gutter, this image has a delicate, sweet quality, and something of the feel of a Japanese woodblock print.
A KENDRA ELLIOTT PHOTO FOR TODAY
Attitude . . .
[Via Kendra.Elliott Photo]
EYES WIDE SHUT
Made using the Hipstamatic sister app Incredibooth.