A brief interlude to note down a couple of things.
I follow only one podcast, and that’s On Taking Pictures. As the name says, it’s about photography, and in one recent Q&A episode they kindly answered a question I have made; what’s cool however is their …
more ...Recentemente mi sono imbattuto in due cose meravigliose. La prima, una serie di foto scattate in Pakistan da un giovane, pluripremiato, fotografo, Muhammed Muheisen.
La seconda, un piccolo saggio di Marina Keegan, pieno di speranza, gioia di vivere e quel senso di fratellanza e comunità che si ha solo a …
more ...Richard Koci Hernandez made this video asking if “mobile photography has made us more reliant on tools than on our eyes”:
Sometimes you can find smart youtube comments. For example this guy wrote:
more ...Hernandez makes a valid point - the image shouldn’t be defined by the camera it’s captured …
I have always liked Craig Mod, since I read years ago his travelogue/review of the Panasonic GF1. He traveled to Himalaya, captured some great shot with this little camera, and wrote extensive and very well written thoughts about ‘gear’ — linking tech talk to excellent photography and interesting, deep commentary …
more ...Quando diventi grande e hai la famiglia, il lavoro… le biciclette e la fotografia e l’hackintosh e i fumetti da leggere… perdi colpi, non sei più al corrente delle novità che ci sono su internet, e ti riduci a credere che kickstarter sia l’unico sito di finanziamento popolare …
more ...Attenzione, arriva una serie di appunti che butto lì, tanto per levarli dall’eterno stato di DRAFT.
Il primo ad esempio lo scrivevo a febbraio 2012 (rileggendolo, lo trovo ancora attuale):
situazione della città di milano addì 14 febbraio 2012
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il portafoglio dei possessori di porsche carrera 4 GTS e …
It might be quirky and it might be cool but I would argue this is something which should not appeal to anybody apart from facebook photographers.
I’m talking about the 15mm Olympus body c(r)ap lens.
The reasons are two:
- judging from the shots which you can see …
There are still pearls to be found on the internet, after all.
In these days I have found three photography blogs which are full of interesting and well written articles; stimulating, instructive, much better of the crap that Popular Photography publishes (and I’m not even mentioning the countless websites …
more ...If you have love of photography and are a dreamy nerd enamored of Asimov’s books, you really need to read this; it’s an account by a NASA astronaut about the daily experiences of shooting photographs in space:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/locations/photography_in_space.shtml
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