The ‘supermoon’ is blazing the horizon tonight with its bigger and brighter moonshine. [Maybe that's why the boys were extra feisty today?!] During a quick bike ride to the corner store for weekend supplies, I saw the moon rising over the Junction cemetery. I booked-it home to grab my SLR and tripod, and took a […]
April 19, 2012
This one, as a gear, gadget and camera nerd, was impossible to pass up. The bait, on my Twitter feed, was taken immediately: “@c5dnews: Article: NAB 2012: $900 Quad Copter for GoPro sized cameras.” A $900 camera helicopter? Yes, please. Looking to blow a few hundred of your tax return? Here’s an approved option. This […]
April 13, 2012
After spending just short of a week in Fairbanks, Alaska, I’m back home reflecting upon some great memories and amazing images. In between red-eye naps and delayed flights, after two back-to-back sleepless northern lights nights, I’m borderline kooky. On assignment, I traveled to meet the GoPro production team to learn more about a scientific partnership […]
January 5, 2012
Making the interwebs rounds –as these should– are recent tilt-shift photographs by Tim McKenna. They’re amazing, and certainly one of the better examples and uses for the tilt-shift practice. For more about tilt-shift photography in the French Polynesia, visit McKenna’s site. Looking for some tilt-shift gear, check out B&H. About tilt-shift photography (and a sweet […]
November 23, 2011
It’s safe to say that when Nenad Saljic captured this image of cavers dropping into the mouth of Cave Mamet, he was making the most of his natural surroundings. It also helps that he’s an active caver and speleophotographer, a certified caving instructor and mountain rescuer, and has a Ph.D. in Economics. The latter of […]
November 10, 2011
Time-lapse cinematography is an ever-impressive technique for documenting a particularly long duration of passing time. The discipline is mostly used for capturing natural and urban landscapes, construction, and the growing or dying life. For Oslo, Norway-based photographer Terje Sorgjerd, and his photo suite TSO Photography, his time-lapse devotion has led him towards chasing natural phenomenons. His […]
November 9, 2011
After fumbling around the web looking for a good dose of snow porn, while waiting for flakes to start flying here in Vermont, I stumbled onto these videos. Follow along with Jeff Curtes in “The Big Picture” as he walks you through Burton’s latest heli shoot from New Zealand, titled “Snow Porn,” featuring riders Kazuhiro Kokubo, […]
October 27, 2011
Tinted orange by the morning sun, a soaring dune is the backdrop for the hulks of camel thorn trees in Namib-Naukluft Park. Photograph by Frans Lanting, National Geographic. Featured as the May 17, 2011 ‘Photo of the Day’ at Photography.NationalGeographic.com, this image has caused quite a stir –frankly, because it looks altered or enhanced. Well, it’s not. […]
May 5, 2012
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