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Picture Envy for December 11, 2006

Link: Shuttle Launch Seen From ISS.

Picture Envy for September 25, 2006

Bluejake: Man, Heroic and Sublime.
Great shot.  I love the unintentionally humorous look on the subject's face. 

Cardinal Sean O'Malley: Covering Rome By Foot & Celebrating Mass At the Chiesa Nuova Church
Aside from the fact that it's pretty neat that the Archbishop of the Diocese of Boston is blogging, this post captures shots of two churches in Rome - the Chiesa Nuova and the Gesu (where St. Ignatius is buried) - where I performed.  If I can remember correctly, I think we did Vivaldi's Gloria, which suited both locations.  I miss that place. 

Picture Envy for September 18, 2006

Untitled, from Quiet Glow Photography.

Church of Littletown, Moodaholic.

From the Horizon, Chromasia. 

Wild Hairs, Always Curious.

Picture Envy for September 14, 2006

Razzi’s Photolog » The Kri-Kri feeling.

Houser Design Photos: Red Buoy

Low Resolution: fishtanks

Deceptive Media: 0706

donald tetto photography: Providence, RI

stray matter: the life behind us

I guess it's a good day for Picture Envy.  There's a lot of good stuff out there. 

Picture Envy for August 24, 2006

• Theorem, Monument 163.  Great shot of Monument Valley, from Theorem's "O6 Roadtrip."    Here's another good shot from that collection. 

My essay has stalled completely.  I can't figure out how to bridge the beginning and the end without making the essay much longer than I want.  I'm going to sit on it a bit, and instead focus on the fifteen rolls of film I finally developed.  Some go as far back as January of this year, when I was in New York City for the Chinese/Lunar New Year's Celebration.  The majority, though, cover my photos from Cape Breton. 

Picture Envy for August 10, 2006

Three rather gray shots today. 

• Groundglass, Grid;
• The Streets are Alive, Sunset Blvd. (which gets quite a neat effect from cross-processing; it reminds me of an antique postcard.); and,
• Worksongs, Concrete.

Picture Envy for August 8, 2006

• That... was my foot, Spaces Inbetween.
• gotreadgo, Shiner.  I could do without the pro-vegetarian stuff below, but I love the colors in this shot. 
• idogu, Gotham City, via Gothamist

It's a day of moody, atmospheric photos. 

Naoshima: Japan's "Art Island" (Flickr Gallery)

A Flickr gallery of Naoshima, an island largely dedicated to contemporary art. 

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picture envy no. 32

A Walk Through Durham Township, Pennsylvania, Delaware Canal at Raubsville, Even with the River, Usually 50 Yards of Land Between Them (Apr. 3, 2005).

I don't think I've singled out "Durham Tp." often, if ever.  The pastoral scenes there are heavily manipulated, and sometimes I feel it gets a little too cute, but these shots are great.  Taken during the heavy flooding that affected New Jersey and Pennsylvania this spring, "Delaware Canal at Raubsville..." is one of a series of dark shots that really bring out the menace of a flood.  I'm impressed with these shots, regardless of the photoshopping. 

I'm envious of those that get to take shots like this for a living.  A good, newsworthy shot that is also beautiful... now there's a creation. 

picture envy no. 31

The New York Times has an interesting article on the growing relationship between two great museums of photography, The George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, and the International Center of Photography in New York, New York, and their development of an online exhibit at www.photomuse.org.  Unfortunately, I keep getting a "connection refused" message when I try to link to photomuse.org.  I assume that this is due to the glut of people trying to check it out from the NY Times.  I'm interested to see what the site will have on there.  NYT explains the online project thusly:

... an ambitious project to create one of the largest freely accessible databases of masterwork photography anywhere on the Web, a venture that will bring their collections to much greater public notice and provide an immense resource for photography aficionados, both scholars and amateurs.

The Web site - Photomuse.org, now active only as a test site, with a smattering of images - is expected to include almost 200,000 photographs when it is completed in the fall of 2006, and as both institutions work out agreements with estates and living photographers, the intention is to add tens of thousands more pictures.

Randy Kennedy, Amassing a Treasury of Photography, N.Y. Times (Jul. 20, 2005). 

I checked out some of the photos attached to the article (in lieu of visiting the site); they're impressive works (Capa, Stieglitz, and Brady are amongst those represented).  If Photomuse is going to head down that road, it could be a hell of an inspiration.