Jake Stangel sent me an e-mail recently informing me of the launch of Too Much Chocolate, a new website for young, emerging photographers to come together. The site features a rotating gallery, a discussion forum and interviews. Very cool, I thought. But it seems that a lot of these kinds of websites have been popping [...]
Charles Leadbeater, a researcher at the London think tank Demos, is raising a lot of interesting questions about sharing ideas and the role of the internet. (Along with the above video, also see his TED talk on collaborative innovation and the “rise of the amateur professional” and, if you have the time, read the first [...]
badges made by Liz Kuball Cara Phillips made great post on her blog a few days ago titled “What’s a Lady to Do?” where she considers the challenges of being female in the photo world. The post seems to have sparked a call for action to create more support, discussion, and opportunities for women. Cara [...]
envelope and contents, including Drawing #81, Binoculars, 2008 from Jason Polan (The Drawing Project) Jason Polan has been posting daily drawings on his blog, The Drawing Project, since the end of November and making them available to the first reader to e-mail him with their name and address. Just the other day I received Drawing [...]
Box Props (from “Illuminations”) © Tim Davis Over on Words Without Pictures there’s an article by Jason Evans titled Online Photographic Thinking. This essay addresses the context of the web for photography. It’s a new frontier that, from the standpoint of an independent practitioner, doesn’t seem to have fulfilled its potential, given photography’s phenomenal recent [...]
Shorpy at work, November, 1910 © Lewis Hine Shorpy is the “100-year-old photo blog” named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a young “greaser” on Bessie Mine of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co. in Alabama (photographed by Lewis Hine late in 1910).
image (and Domke camera bag) courtesy of Ye Rin Mok If you’re looking to say “goodbye” to old/neglected photo equipment or would like to say “hello” to new/desirable replacements, don’t bother with eBay – just start a blog! A few weeks back I sold a Hasselblad flash to Mr. Wasserstrom. And just today I picked [...]
Take a moment (it really only takes a few seconds) to cast a vote for me so that I can win the 10K College Blogging Scholarship. Also feel free to help me out by passing the word on to others or sharing this info on your own blog. The voting period ends at Midnight PST [...]
I received a number of e-mails from readers referring me to a $10,000 blogging scholarship awarded to college students who blog. I was very curious seeing as I have been blogging since high school and recently, upon arriving to college, began this blog as a more “serious” endeavor. I submitted my application shortly before the [...]
Conscientious, one of my favorite photo-related blogs (formerly one of my least favorite looking – no offense, Joerg) gets redesigned! The site was updated to a newer blogging platform and along with this, readers are offered a much cleaner space to enjoy all the wonderful content. Talk about making my day.
