Images: More awesome than awesome

10 years worth of photographs combined into one image showing 5500 individual galaxies.

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/09/25/this-is-the-most-zoomed-in-photograph-ever-created-by-mankind/

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Images: Siberian Summer

A Siberian Summer

SEP 25, 2012

Reuters photographer Ilya Naymushin is based in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, the the third largest city in Siberia. He frequently takes photographs of daily life in and around Krasnoyarsk, capturing expansive landscapes, colorful festivals, and intimate moments with equal skill. Below, I've gathered some of my favorite images taken by Ilya over this past Siberian summer.

43 more photos here:  http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/09/a-siberian-summer/100375/

"Al Rams" Antonie Robertson

Photo:  Antonie Robertson

As readers of this blog may be aware, I have recently relocated to Dubai after three years living in Ras Al Khaimah, a small city in a rural area about 100km to the north.  Out my back window was a tree filled with birds in the mornings, and beyond that sand and bushes.  The morning drive to work took 10 minutes and I passed no more than a dozen cars.  The mountains were a 15 minute drive from work or from home. Life was unhurried and the place sparsely populated.  Here in Dubai, its all quite the opposite.  Six weeks later I'm still adjusting to my new environment.

Yesterday I opened The National for a bit of local news and discovered a collection of photographs of a small community near Ras Al Khaimah, a place called Al Rams.  The 15 images in this collection seem so redolent of place - deep shadows, cinder block, vivid building colors,  dusty streets, ramshackle shops.  Experiencing these images from a distance, a wistful longing arose for a place I once inhabited and which features in so many good memories.  

I took quite a lot of photos during my three years in RAK, but none quite as good as the 15 images in Antonie Robertson's collection.  I sent the photographer a personal thank you through his website, which you can visit here.

Enjoy.  

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Exercise 11: Vertical and Horizontal Frames, Part 2

I never expected to spend so much time on this exercise.  It seemed straightforward enough.  Find a place to photograph to which you could return.  Shoot the subject in vertical, examine the photos, then return and shoot in horizontal.   The purpose here was to examine shooting habits, to see whether shooting vertical might be equally as rewarding, and to discover how frame orientation may influence shooting choices.

An initial post on the exercise with a bit of background on the subject matter that can be found here.

Images: Equine Portraiture

Daily Mail Online

By ROB PREECE

PUBLISHED: 10:50 GMT, 13 September 2012

Strong and muscular but graceful when they move, horses have inspired artists and writers for centuries.

But these pictures show the animals as you've probably never imagined them before - posing for portraits in a professional photographer's studio.

And this isn't any ordinary studio - it's a 3,000 square foot backdrop and stage which the photographer, Lindsay Robertson, takes to stables in the back of his Transit van.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2202488/Photographer-creates-3-000-square-foot-backdrop-capture-stunning-pictures-horses.html#ixzz27XkercEI

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Exercise 11: Vertical and Horizontal Frames

It's been too long since I last posted any photos.  I've been shooting and images have been accumulating while trying to sort out how to use Lightroom, as well as iPad.  You can read about the latter here.

I returned to the UAE in late August and began a new life in Dubai.  Previously I lived in a rural area about 100km north.  As I'm in new surroundings, one of my photographic projects has been to record images of my surroundings for friends and relatives in far away places.  That fit in nicely with the most recent exercise.

Lightroom Follow-up

This post follows on from the previous, looking at set-up issues in Lightroom.  Since arriving back in Dubai a couple weeks ago I've spent most of my photography time playing around with the software, first with Adobe's training manual, and then on a little project.

Organizing in Lightroom

I’m just starting with Lightroom 4 and am a bit puzzled regarding organization.  

I'm posting my question here as proof of my engagement with photography technology, which my tutor may be reviewing in the not too distant future.  Since this blog has a tiny readership, I'll be adding links to this post to a few forums to elicit advice.  Please feel free to add a comment here, or in the forum topic that brought you here - or both.  

Here we go.