Its that time of year again here in San Francisco. This weekend is Fleet Week and the Blue Angels will be performing from 3-4 PM on Saturday and Sunday. If you’re in the area and up for a challenging photo opportunity I recommend coming out to see the show. Event details can be found on at fleetweek.us. I had a great time photographing the event last year with the image below being the highlight. Mentioned in B
This weekend I was meeting a friend on Treasure Island and while waiting a great photo opportunity presented itself. Â The largest privately owned sailboat the Maltese Falcon, owned by venture capitalist Tom Perkins, sailed past with the San Francisco skyline as a backdrop. Â Now while I focus on landscape and nature subjects I won’t hesitate to photograph an interesting event or news worthy subject. With that
Since I wrote Top 5 Photography Related Movies I’ve been an admirer of James Nachtwey. “War Photographer” in which he was the subject was deeply fascinating and inspiring. Shortly after I saw “War Photographer” he won the 2007 TEDPrize, a $100,000 prize for “one wish to change he world”. “I’m working on a story that the world needs to know about. I wish for you to help me
I received the following message from the Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) this morning and wanted to be sure that all my subscribers were aware of this important issue: SAA learned yesterday about an aggressive last-minute push by Congress to pass Orphan Works legislation. The Senate was “hot lining” the Orphan Works Bill (S2913) for a vote, and the House was expected to follow suit. We’ve now learned
This weekend the new California Academy of Science museum and aquarium is reopening. Saturday September 27th’s admission is free. The architecture of the building is impressive inside and out. Info about the opening can be found on their web site and for those that won’t be able to make the grand opening check out this time lapse video of the museum being built. [tags]California Academy of Science, CalA
Click to Enlarge Earlier this week in my blog post Manipulation or Fact? The Politics of Photo Manipulation I discussed the most recent instance of photography being used to make a political statement and/or influence US Presidential elections. The latest instance of this has centered around Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin with her likeness portrayed on the body of a woman wearing an American Flag
It’s come to my attention that the National Geographic International Photography Contest 2008 is now making entrants photographs available as downloadable wallpaper. This concerned fellow friend and photographer Don Hall enough to email those running the contest to withdraw his entries. The concern as put by Don in his note to National Geographic… “Free distribution of your entries, probably the b
Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Altered photos are nothing new (see Photo Tampering Throughout History via Dartmouth College), but only in the past 4 years have altered photos become a tool used to influence prospective voters in US elections. In 2004 Jane Fonda was inserted into a Ken Light photo forever associating John Kerry to her and tarnishing his anti-Vietnam war protest record. Not only are such manipulatio