March 2010
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Benj Haisch →
Wonderful wedding photography — Ben really puts that 45mm f/2.8 TSE to use.
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English Peas →
Organic.
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Life at f/1.4 →
More 35mm goodness.
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Typographic BLT →
I’m hungry — hungry for type.
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Coffee Is A Ritual →
More 35mm f/1.4 L goodness.
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By The Power Of Greyscale →
Spectacular greyscale portraiture.
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Complimentary Colors →
Simple and good.
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On Rooftops →
Cute.
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17:59 →
Osaka, Japan.
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Haunting →
Welcome to a new week of Flickr finds.
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Pepsi in 3D? →
It almost doesn’t look like a photograph.
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Repsol & Gauloises →
Astonishing lighting. I wonder how many “many SB24’s” actually equates to?
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Brooklyn, Now With Bokeh →
Shot with a 35mm f/1.4L.
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Pointed Focus →
Fantastic restraint.
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70 Days Later →
Sorry for the brief absence, but I’ve been admiring these gritty, heart-wrenching photographs from Haiti.
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Amsterdam and Open Access Fibre →
An interesting read on construction of a fibre network in Amsterdam, and the technical & logistical challenges involved in deploying fibre in extremely dense neighbourhoods:
So we decided to go for point-to-point in Amsterdam: it did (and does) not make sense to be “penny wise and pound foolish,” by saving on fiber upfront but running the risk of having to redo the outside fiber plant in a...
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Quoteskin →
What a magnificent set of quotes. I find this one rings the most true:
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Pane-ful. →
Great, great, great tonality & lighting here. My next house will need windows like these.
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There's Minimalism Over The Horizon →
Don’t deny it.
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This Has Me Dreaming →
I wish I could be wherever this place is — it’s serene.
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Seattle Seattle Seattle →
A very moody exposure.
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Holga Appreciation Society →
Contrast, contrast & more contrast. Have to love the lo-fi look.
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At The Laundromat →
Very retro — love the stainless steel.
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Hasselblad & The Cherry Tree Forest →
Now this is how you shoot medium format:
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Four Ways To Mix Fonts →
HF&J on mixing fonts:
Is there a way to know what fonts will work together? Building a palette is an intuitive process, but expanding a typographic duet to three, four, or even five voices can be daunting. Here are four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJ’s Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing...
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The Urbanisation of Dubai →
Spectacular satellite imagery of Dubai — the difference in a decade is startling.
Inland, changes are just as dramatic between November 2000 and February 2010. In the earliest image, empty desert fills the lower right quadrant of the image, as cityscape primarily hugs the coast. As the years pass, urbanization spreads, and the final image shows the area almost entirely filled by roads, buildings,...
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Living Against The Grain →
Now this is inspired:
OLOMOUC, CZECH REPUBLIC — RADIM KRALIK and his wife, Barbora Kralikova, live in a modern concrete box on top of a 1943 grain silo, a stark contrast to the neo-Gothic spires that dominate this small city about 175 miles east of Prague.
The construction alone is impressive, but the design itself incorporates a fantastic “family” theme that is summed up here:
The...
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Typical Wheat Field Shot Number 8545 →
It might be a cliché, sure — but it doesn’t mean it can’t be good.
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More Square Format →
This is a great example — I don’t think another aspect ratio would have worked quite as well.
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Popcorn! →
Delectable coloring.
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Head in the Cloud →
Dave Pell on how we rely on the cloud more & more:
At first, I was shocked. How could she possibly not know her own boyfriend’s telephone number? It must have been the trauma of being hit by a car. But then I thought about it for a few seconds, and I realized that – without pulling out my iPhone – I don’t know her telephone number either.
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Fitting, Really →
It’s not often you a see company with the market cap of Apple completely transform their front page into a tribute. There’s not a single product image or promotion on that page at all.
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More I Say, More! →
Yet another fantastic anonymous self portrait. The adorable nail polish and the little sharpie drawings on her hand set this one apart.
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A Ladybug On Your Shoulder Is Good Luck →
It’s superstitious perhaps, but it’s true.
PS: New shoes on the table is bad luck, and dropping a fork is too — but not a spoon.
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Delectable Depth Of Field →
Just a quick one on what is a very busy day. I promise a more regular schedule come this weekend.
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iPhone App: Articles →
Just picked this up — I don’t do a lot of Wikipedia browsing on my iPhone, but when I do, I’m frustrated by the web UI they have. I don’t buy many apps — I have about 30, and of those, about 10 are actually on my phone — but the UI design and simplicity of Articles made me cave.
It’s worth a look, if not just for what some clever WebKit Views can do.
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Anonymity →
My fascination with what I call “anonymous self portraits” doesn’t fail to impress me — that is, self-portraits without the face of the model themselves.
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Miles Away →
Brilliant stuff — this is new native 24p footage on the 5dmk2 from Philip Bloom. It’s shot with one lens, and there’s no need for fancy frame-rate-shiftin’, though Philip still records auto externally.
PS: There’s also a very, very spectacular video called Above Skywalker that he’s produced in native 24p as well, and oh gosh, I think I just wet myself.
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gTLD Monetisation →
And it begins. The new gTLD monetisation ‘process’ provided by ICANN is absolutely terrible, and the start of a massive land-rush to capture brand-name gTLD’s is not going to do any favors for consumers or Internet users at all. It will make phishing schemes easier to propagate, and just increase the number of legal & trademark disputes over domain names.
TOKYO, March 16,...
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High Speed Rail →
Good read about trains in Europe with a slight mention of the US. I think rail travel in these fairly “dense” countries is definitely valuable and viable, and with air travel becoming more of a headache [security-wise] in some nations it’s also a more convenient option.
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Fencing Is A Sport Too →
Though I don’t think this photograph is an accurate representation of it. It is full of texture, however.
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Singapore 2010 →
After some brainstorming and a wave of wanderlust, a friend & I have decided to fly to Singapore in September for the F1 GP. Planning is underway, and budgets are slim, but it will definitely be a fantastic experience. I’ve not seen the F1 in person before, and despite the critics it really is an impressively technical racing series.
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Masquerading, v2.0 →
Imitation is the best form of flattery.
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Field Envy →
I want to re-create this for myself.
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Ruffled →
Just one part of a fantastic set of photographs.
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Silence →
Wonderful composure. I love the snowflakes in her hair, too.
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It's Not Winter Yet →
There ain’t no snowstorms here.
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Toronto Streets →
Glorious, glorious lighting here. The color of the sky, the neon lights on the storefronts and the reflection on the asphalt — inspiring.
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Old Dogs, New Branding →
I may not be in the US, but I can still appreciate the work McCain’s campaign party have gone to in order to re-brand his image for his Senate re-election campaign. Significantly more contemporary type with deeper, darker colors that still stick to the red, white & blue theme.
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Skate & Destroy →
Who knew broken skateboard decks could be so beautiful?