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Aerial photography using kites in 1906, when Ansel Adams was just a child.
This Week in Photography History
San Francisco in Ruins taken by George Lawrence on May 28, 1906. Mr. Lawrence was an innovative photographer, experimenting with aerial photography using kites and balloons and constructing huge cameras and lenses. Six weeks after an earthquake and resulting fire devastated San Francisco, he mounted a 49 pound camera on a train of kites to take this 160 degree panorama from 2000 feet high.
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![Bookmarking this. I want to make daguerreotypes. Note link below.
tuesday-johnson:
ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a manically smiling gentleman]
via the Daguerreian Society, Julian Wolff Collection](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1mamtQuYV1qa51rdo1_500.jpg)
Bookmarking this. I want to make daguerreotypes. Note link below.
ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a manically smiling gentleman]
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Artist & photographer Alan Campbell’s bag
I reblog this because I like Alan’s art and how he incorporates photography and writing. Also because Japan Camera Hunter is an informative source for anyone interested in film or cameras.I had this little feature about me published today - http://japancamerahunter.com/2012/04/in-your-bag-106-alan-campbell/
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Som amazing pictures here -
“In 1909, millionaire French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn decided to enlist the era’s burgeoning photographic technology in a mission far greater than aesthetic fetishism, and set out to use the new autochrome — the world’s first true color photographic process, invented by the Lumière brothers in 1903 and marketed in 1907 — to produce a color photographic record of human life on Earth as a way of promoting peace and fostering cross-cultural understanding.”
(via The Dawn of the Color Photograph: How Albert Kahn Cataloged Humanity | Brain Pickings)
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Fascinating camera from Afganistan - shoots with paper. Processes in-camera.
guatemala’s indigenous beauty queens.
In a country where about 40 percent of people self identify as indigenous, the contest carries great prestige, especially as rapid globalization threatens to sweep aside Mayan traditions. The women, who ranged in age from 14 to 26, went through multiple rounds of competition and were expected to give speeches in both Spanish and their native tongue. Twenty-three-year-old Rosa Lidia Aguare Castro of Santa Lucia La Reforma was this year’s winner.
Meanwhile, Abd was doing his own part to uphold tradition by using a 19th century style wooden box camera he had bought in Afghanistan. The women had to hold still for up to two minutes as the Abd exposed the images straight onto photo paper. After dunking the paper into developer and fixer liquid inside the camera body, he got a negative image of his sitters. He later photographed these negatives to produce the positive versions seen here. With the lengthy exposure times, “you can’t make any real big gestures,” Abd said. “You are in front of a box camera. You need to be quiet and you need to be frozen…I really like the idea of doing these portraits in this way because I’m going back to the idea of photography without iPhones or that sort of modern technology,” Abd said. “It’s about having this connection with people I’m portraying because they have to be totally quiet and spend some time only with me, looking at me with my camera.”
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Ten years ago today - Ansan landscape.
12th February 2002. Life in Ansan, South Korea.
Full panoramic gallery (12 pictures) on Posterous. Spot the living creature.
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B&W Film processing in the tropics.
Twenty minutes ago I took a one litre bottle of fixer out of my fridge. It was about 4 degrees C. I sat it on top of the fridge to warm up while I went and mixed up the developer and loaded the film on a spiral, reminding myself in the process how much I dislike 35mm film - give me 120 any day.
I just checked the fixer. It is now 25C. A 20 degree Celsius rise in temperature in just 20 minutes just in the ambient air.
I think I should be processing C41…
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Seriously - I would like these pictures so much more if the woman was not in them. I have never liked model photography. Nature is better without people in it. Especially posed people.
Here are some lovely photos from Amanda White’s latest series, which she shot in the Hoh Rainforest!
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Interesting. I think I might make some orders. I need to stock up on T-Max 8x10 sheets.
With the looming price increase, a 25% jump on all Kodak products, there were several people in Yodobashi Camera tonight stocking up now to save money later. I chatted with Shinya Arimoto about this earlier in the day- he suggested to offset the increase by shooting 25% less- instead of taking four shots of something only take three. He laughed and said that this is probably impossible though. Arimoto shoots a lot of Kodak film (T-Max) and like me uses Kodak HC-110 to develop his negs. Unlike me however, he orders his 20 bottles at a time.)
Keep in mind the people in the image above are not ”hoarding” out of fear that all Kodak films will disappear tomorrow. Kodak says that their film business is profitable. Let’s hope it stays that way.
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And again. Boelen’s Python. I took so few photos during my time in PNG. I didn;t have a darkroom there and without that, I felt no urge to do photography. It’s always been about the craft for me.
Boelen’s Python (Morelia boeleni)
A rarely encountered and gorgeous python found in the forests of mountainous areas of New Guinea, that reaches a length of up to 10 ft. It is thought to be equally comfortable at climbing up in the trees and traversing the forest floor. It eats a wide variety of small mammals, birds, and reptiles.
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“When The Fairy Tale Ends, Real Life Begins”
these are great. i wish i knew their origin though. tumblr tends to roll things around until the original artist is lost
damn… i can’t remember the name of this artist…
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