Image copyright 2009 Byron O'NealThis image reminds me of cold nights spent around a fire trying to keep warm while indulging in long talks about how to change the world.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Graffiti from Beijing - KwanYinGraffitiStudio
Work copyright KwanYinGraffitiStudioI was checking out the Art Crimes website and came across this new work from the KwanYin Graffiti Studio. It love it, blending an older style that you might see on a paper screen with the new graffiti edge.
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A Picture Saying a Thousand Words - KKK Baseball Team
Photographer unknownThey say that a picture says a thousand words. As a photographer, from time to time I come across an image that leaves me speechless. This was the case when I came across this shot. Clearly not originally intended to convey a grand statement no more than a snapshot really, the combined elements of something as classically wholesome as baseball and the reminder of a time where the KKK could exist in broad daylight leave me reeling. I'm so grateful to be born when I was and to have grown up exposed to the beauty of humanity's diversity.
America, you have changed for the better.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The Transparent City by Michael Wolf
This week's Photo Book Tuesday selection is The Transparent City by Michael Wolf. Produced by the Aperture Foundation, I chose this book for evoking the challenges I always deal with when traveling to big cities. Being from rural Tennessee, the vertical nature of being in a larger building while being surrounded by same has always burdened me with a sense of loneliness and a fascination with what other people are doing in their tiny space just a short distance away. It's confining and altogether weird to me. It's also really cool.I've been a fan of Wolf's work for years after a friend sent me a link to his Architecture of Density series covering high rise buildings in Hong Kong.
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From the publisher,
Bringing his unique perspective on changing urban environments to a city renowned for its architectural legacy, Wolf chose to photograph the central downtown area, focusing specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux.
Hardcover
112 pages, 60 color images
released in November 2008
$42.00 currently at Aperture's website
Sunday, February 15, 2009
3rd Annual Nature Conservancy Photo Contest Winners are announced
Image copyright Howard B. CheekThe Nature Conservancy has been running a little photo contest now for three years and the results were just posted.
This was the Grand Prize Winner for 2008.
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Friday, February 13, 2009
Creative Graffiti
Found a bit of interesting graffiti this morning while trolling the net. The top shot shows the stencils added to the concrete wall which doesn't make much sense until you see the silhouette of the statue at night. Creative!
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Old Piano in rural Oklahoma
Image copyright 2009 Byron O'NealMy buddy Dave and I found an old, abandoned church while venturing into rural Oklahoma last week. It was the kind of place that you would think would have been full of great photographic subjects, but it was really hard to make sense of the place. There were a few scattered pages from hymnals and this old piano that stood out in the scene. I tried to do some macro work with the internal guts of the thing and in the end produced nothing that I liked. A slightly wider perspective seems to have worked out much better. It was a creepy place overall, covered in vines with all the windows smashed. There was some critter moving around on the hole riddled suspended ceiling that ran me out quicker than I would have preferred. I picked up a distinct odor that could only be skunk so we beat a hasty retreat out of there leaving it to whatever had claimed the place.
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I find telling the story of time to be a challenging endeavor with a photograph. Having seen others do it, I know it can be done yet I find my skill yet lacking to some degree. In the end, I got an image out of it I really like which is more than I can say about some of my other trips.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
21 Nights - Randee St.Nicholas covers Prince
I've done a poor job of keeping this going having gotten busy with this and that for some time now but Photo Book Tuesday is back (after receiving threats that I better get back at it.)
This week we're looking at 21 Nights by Randee St. Nicholas. Nicholas covered a stint of umm ... twenty-one sold out nights chasing after Prince, formerly known as The Artist, in London in 2007. Nicholas and Prince have been friends since 1991 when she was asked to direct his "Get Off" video, and she was the only photographer allowed to cover the event. Chasing after him in the hotel and at the after parties as well as backstage, Nicholas condenses the festivities into this 256 page gem. Notoriously difficult to pin down, this is an unprecedented view into the life of one of the greatest musicians of our time.
For Prince fans, the book includes a CD of soundbyte extras available nowhere else. For fans of Nicholas, you get 124 never before published images. Quite the combo!
$50.00 Hardcover
At 5lbs this will take a sturdy coffee table
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Cenci Goepel & Jens Warnecke - a different kind of light graffiti
Image copyright Cenci Goepel & Jens WarneckeThese two do a very different kind of light graffiti combining a love for the outdoors with some very creative night photography.
The shot to the left was taken in Briksdalbreen, Norway in 2007.
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