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January 2, 2019 | 1 Comment |
The new year is a wonderful time to look at great photographs!
Dozens of media outlets collect their best of the best.
You’ll find links to the best of the best below.
Enjoy!
Pulitzer Prize Winners In Photography 2018
Time Top 100 Photos Of 2018
NY Times The Year In Pictures 2018
Magnum Pictures of the Year 2018
International Photography Awards 2018
World Press Photo 2018
The Guardian Best Photographs 2018
The Atlantic Top New Photos Of 2018
Reuters Pictures Of The Year 2018
The Atlantic Top 25 News Photos Of 2018
Bloomberg The Year In Pictures 2018
NY Times Best Travel Photographs 2018
CNN Best Travel Photos 2018
National Geographic Best Photos Of 2018
Sony World Photography Awards 2018
Lens Culture’s Favorite Photographs Of 2018
My Modern Met Top Photographs From Around The World 2018
Huff Po iPhone Photography Awards 2018
Drone Awards 2018
Audubon Photography Awards 2018
Nikon Small World Photography Winners 2018
The Guardian’s Astronomy Photographer Of The Year Shortlist 2018
Sports Illustrated’s Best Photos of 2018
Car and Driver’s Hottest Car Photos of 2018
Berify’s 11 Famous Portrait Photographers Of 2018
My Modern MET 20 Best Architecture Photos 2018
Best Photography Books Of 2018 – Part 1
Best Photography Books Of 2018 – Part 2
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Category: Photography Tags: 2018, atlantic, Audubon, best, bloomberg, car and driver, cnn, collection, lens culture, Magazine - Huffington Post, magnum, my modern met, national geographic, nature, new york times, nikon, Photography, pulitzer, reuters, science, sony, sports illustrated, the guardian, time, world press
January 4, 2018 | Leave a Comment |
You’ll find links to the best of those below.
Time’s Best Photographs Of 2017
New York Times The Year In Photographs 2017
The World Press Photo Contest Winners 2017
CNN’s The World’s Best Travel Photos 2017
Bloomberg’s 100 Best Photographs Of 2017
Reuter’s Pictures Of The Year 2017
Reuter’s Best Business Photographs Of 2017
Visual Culture’s Most Powerful Moments of Journalism 2017
Sports Illustrated’s Best Photos Of 2017
National Geographic’s Best Photographs Of 2017
The Guardian’s Best Of Wildlife Photography Awards 2017
Audubon’s Photography Awards 2017
CBS Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2017
Nature’s Best Science Images Of 2017
Space’s Most Amazing Space Photographs Of 2017
Popular Science’s Best Picture’s Of The Solar Eclipse 2017
The Huffington Post’s Best iPhone Photographs Of 2017
My Modern Met’s Best Photographs Of 2017
Lens Culture’s 75 Experts Name the Top Photo Books of 2017
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Category: Photography Tags: 2017, Audubon, best, bloomberg, cnn, collection, Magazine - Huffington Post, met, national geographic, nature, new york times, Photography, reuters, science, sports illustrated, the guardian, time, world press
April 22, 2017 | Leave a Comment |
To celebrate Earth Day, Time highlights 3 ways to make a difference everyday.
Speak Up, Eat Less Red Meat, Stop Home Leaks. (Read it here.)
Find more ideas with my Green Actions.
Support these environmental organizations.
Category: Environment - Video Tags: aerial, earth day, Environment - Causes, Environment - Green Actions, time, time lapse, Video
August 9, 2013 | Leave a Comment |
Interesting statistics – visualized in a fun way.
Great question at the end.
Category: Video Tags: time, time management
May 13, 2013 | Leave a Comment |
See and learn more about these awesome timelapse videos here.
“Spacecraft and telescopes are not built by people interested in what’s going on at home. Rockets fly in one direction: up. Telescopes point in one direction: out. Of all the cosmic bodies studied in the long history of astronomy and space travel, the one that got the least attention was the one that ought to matter most to us—Earth.
That changed when NASA created the Landsat program, a series of satellites that would perpetually orbit our planet, looking not out but down. Surveillance spacecraft had done that before, of course, but they paid attention only to military or tactical sites. Landsat was a notable exception, built not for spycraft but for public monitoring of how the human species was altering the surface of the planet. Two generations, eight satellites and millions of pictures later, the space agency, along with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), has accumulated a stunning catalog of images that, when riffled through and stitched together, create a high-definition slide show of our rapidly changing Earth. TIME is proud to host the public unveiling of these images from orbit, which for the first time date all the way back to 1984.
It took the folks at Google to upgrade these choppy visual sequences from crude flip-book quality to true video footage. With the help of massive amounts of computer muscle, they have scrubbed away cloud cover, filled in missing pixels, digitally stitched puzzle-piece pictures together, until the growing, thriving, sometimes dying planet is revealed in all its dynamic churn. The images are striking not just because of their vast sweep of geography and time but also because of their staggering detail. Consider: a standard TV image uses about one-third of a million pixels per frame, while a high-definition image uses 2 million. The Landsat images, by contrast, weigh in at 1.8 trillion pixels per frame, the equivalent of 900,000 high-def TVs assembled into a single mosaic.
These Timelapse pictures tell the pretty and not-so-pretty story of a finite planet and how its residents are treating it — razing even as we build, destroying even as we preserve. It takes a certain amount of courage to look at the videos, but once you start, it’s impossible to look away.”
Category: Video Tags: Google, time, timelapse
January 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment |
Oriens I, Death Valley, California, 1999
I missed the shot(s) the first time. When I got back from Death Valley a friend said, “Zabriskie Point? Again? Well, I’ll bet you could photograph it in a way that hasn’t been done before.” I knew what she meant, but her comment actually clarified another idea for me.
I had been deeply impressed by the way the light changed mercurially over time, continually transforming the landscape, from pre-dawn through early morning. It first lit the blue gray sky with pale pinks, then turned the far mountains from a cold brown to a hot coral, crept slowly across the valley floor to set Manley Beacon on fire (the crescendo in a magnificent symphony of light that most photographers favor), and continued to create moving pools of light in the foreground during a process that lasts for more than an hour. It is a wonder to behold and to fully appreciate it one needs to be still and vigilant for some time. Its full impact cannot be found in a single moment, I found it in many.
The solution? Make multiple exposures of the same composition throughout changing passages of light and then blend them together to create the impression of an extended moment in time.
I had made exposures of sunrise at Zabriskie Point, but I hadn’t made the ones I needed now. I had to go back. It took a year and a half. Knowing that so many unexpected things often happen, I prefer to make flexible plans, so I wondered if would return for an idea that ultimately wouldn’t work. I envisioned glorious light in every layer of the landscape. As I began making the exposures, I realized there was a flaw in my plan. If I selected the ‘best’ light in every area of the picture, all areas would demand equal attention. There would be no contrast. The final image needed shadow just as much as it needed light. I persisted, making exposures, without moving the camera, for more than an hour, of every significant change in light – and shadow. My original plan was useful but it needed to be modified as it was executed based on specific conditions, new information, and insight. To succeed, I had to listen not just what was in my head but also to the place and the process.
Later, as I looked at my transparencies the final solution presented itself. This new solution even highlighted my feelings about the place more strongly than my original idea. The result, different from my initial conception, but consistent with my intention, achieves a dramatic lighting effect never before seen at one time. Yet, throughout time, a similar sequence of experiences has been witnessed countless times by so many.
The light on the foreground is unaltered, or to be more accurate I should say is faithful to the transparencies that recorded it. The separate portions have not been modified substantially nor were they modified unequally – there has been no dodging and burning. Instead, the light has been reorchestrated with time, faithfully representing the existing light(s) but changing what can be seen in a single moment.
Nothing in the foreground, midground, or background has been added or removed. The sky, however, is an addition from another location. I found the smaller sliver of sky contained in the original exposures made the composition cramped. It lacked the vast sense of space found in the desert. The sky had in fact been the first indicator of the presence of the coming light, making a thousand transformations before its arrival. But the sky that morning was not particularly noteworthy. I could have spent a lifetime waiting for the perfect sky. I chose instead to incorporate another sky from another location that supported both the composition and the light. This sky I altered dramatically, both in tone and color. I did so to expressively complement the drama of the light below, to support it and not detract from it. While the lower half of the image is a matter of resynchronization, the upper half is a matter of recontextualization.
Neither method (resynchronization or recontextualization) yields a classically objective document. But the results of their application may yield artifacts that are truer to our experience of events than traditional photographic practices. If applied in specific ways, they can represent certain aspects of events more faithfully, such as the passage of time.
Making this image changed the way I think about and experience the essential elements of photography – light and time.
How many ways can thinking more predictively about change aid your creativity?
How many new ways can you think about fundamentals of your medium?
How can planning increase your creative success?
What can you do to encourage your plans to evolve?
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Category: Images - Stories Tags: california, compositing, death valley, light, oriens I, the stories behind the images, time
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