I’m starting a new project today called 30holidays. From now until the 25th of December, I’ll be posting one winter or holiday-related photo a day. I didn’t really get into the holiday spirit last year, so hopefully this will help improve that a bit this time around.
Here are a few links that may be of interest:
After a phenomenally fun period of photo filtering, I’ve finally finished.
To see my favorite photos from this year (so far), head here:
NightThree’s Photos on Flickr
You can also see them by month or on a map (!!!).
Enjoy!
I can’t speak highly enough of phpFlickr, a Flickr API wrapper class by Dan Coulter. I wrote a new gallery upload page that will come into use later; my main reason was to integrate Flickr uploads into it. I’m happy to say that within 15 minutes I had a method to upload photos from my gallery to Flickr… and I spent the rest of the 15 minutes actually uploading photos. It does a wonderful job. Thanks, Dan.
If you’ve been annoyed by my lack of Flickrness in 2006, check out my latest. I’m going to be making up for it quickly.
I’d like to ask – which do you think is more interesting?
Time Magazine’s Pictures of the Week
or
Interesting photos from October 2006 on Flickr
I’d personally say the latter.
I’ve had four digital cameras since I received my first one in 1999, and lately I’ve been averaging a new camera approximately every year and a half. I bought my PowerShot A60 [Amazon] in October 2003, and I bought my wonderful Canon EOS Digital Rebel 300D [Amazon] in September 2004.
While the Rebel’s been working extremely well for me, my A60 unfortunately started to misbehave late last year. Since then I’ve wanted to buy a new compact camera; the Rebel is amazing, but it’s really hard to take to a concert or on a casual trip. I love products by Canon, and yesterday I decided to buy a 6-megapixel camera – the new PowerShot SD600 [Amazon] – with a 1GB memory card. With a free trial to Amazon Prime, I’ll probably be getting it on Tuesday.
This is going to be fun.
Call me obsessed with location, but I really like Groundspeak, the company that manages geocaching.com. Groundspeak has recently come up with a site called waymarking.com; it’s devoted to what Geocaching’s virtual cases used to be. Visitors can log a special or unique place, and then other visitors can visit that site, take pictures, and log their find.
The exciting part of this to me is that this is a giant step forward for a project I’ve wanted to do since I became a developer. I’ve never been a real fan of Groundspeak’s design or usability, but I’m really glad to see that they’re trying this (especially this category!).
Visit my logs at waymarking.com
As previously promised, here are the best shots from my trip down Route 27 on May 7. I think they came out well – I might even put a few through Photoshop to see what I can do with them.
February 5: “I also want to … take my best-ever photograph”
Yesterday: “It dawned on me that I’d love to spend my time traveling (around Maine, or maybe even farther if I could afford it) and doing photography.”
Done and started.
(I’ve always believed that wonderful models / actors / whatever make a good image, not always a good photographer – and in this case, Hans-Stefan Ducharme, Joshua Schmersal, Matthew Bessette, Dominick Varney, Anne Schmidt, and Rebecca Bailey (l-r) did all the amazing work in the University of Maine School of Performing Arts‘s production of Jesus Christ Superstar)
I’ve been posting a bunch of photos on facebook today, and it’s made me think about my growing interest in photographing people. I’ve always been more of a landscape photographer; I like going places, seeing things, and taking pictures of them. Lately, though, I’ve begun to value taking pictures of my friends (and as a lot of my friends can attest, I can make people very annoyed by always asking for photos).
Photos tell a lot about a person. It seems as though most people stop the analysis of any kind of casual portrait photo at “so THAT’S what s/he looks like” (or “whoa, s/he looks really good/hot/etc.”). What I’ve come to find, though, is that the real value in photographs of people lies beyond the first glance.
You can tell a lot about a person by his or her surroundings, whether it’s people, things, or places. First, there’s a lot of materialism in photographs. Clothing and makeup tells a lot, of course, about a person’s view of looking pristine (you can often tell a model – or someone who would want to be one – by how they wear casual clothing, and the amount of makeup they wear). While some spend an amazing amount of effort to always look “perfect”, others really just don’t care. Often, I find, it’s the people that don’t emphasize their looks that help create the most interesting – and beautiful – photographs.
Another tell-tale sign of personality is the average number of people in a group of pictures. Facebook is a really interesting place to study this; some people take the majority of photos as a single self-portrait. Others have a very large majority of pictures where they are surrounded by three, four, or ten of their friends. (You can also tell a lot about a person by seeing how they interact with their friends, even in the single shutter frames of a photo.)
I really could look at photographs of people all day. I could also talk about photographs of people all day. I should stop.
By the way -
That’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout.
