When it comes to photography, a Wilson Bentley image can be described much like his favorite subject, the snowflake: Each is one of a kind. After all, the Vermont farmer was the first to ever photograph one.Bentley began photographing snowflakes in 1885, and managed to immortalize more than 5,000 crystals before his death in 1931. Still, the images are widely recognized and highly sought after.
via Art Beat | Winter Forecast: Art to Blanket Region | Online NewsHour | PBS.
Apparently, when Joseph Fortuné Petiot-Groffier (known as one of the pioneers of photography) died in 1855 – his darkroom in Chalon-sur-Saône in Burgundy was simply abandoned and the door closed. His heirs and successors never did anything with that part of the house and just left it locked up. Upon the death of the last of his family two years ago it was eventually found that the whole darkroom was still fully intact – complete with bottles of chemicals, apparatus and everything a photographer in 1855 needed.
via muse-ings: The worlds oldest darkroom?.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44111063@N04/4072640518/in/set-72157622724275698/
http://www.niepce.com/pagesp/pagesp-evehome.html
I get a picture of me that I like then I shave off the caterpillar… oh well
The Online Photographer: Your Favorite Lens.
A rather interesting discussion of favorite lenses. Very few auto super duper lenses here.
jonas yip photography : gallery.
I like this image… I like this image better knowing it was made with a 99 cent magnifying glass for a lens.
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Attributor Study Finds Pervasive Online Book Piracy – 1/14/2010 9:00:00 AM – Publishers Weekly.
Hot on the heels of the story in Publisher’s Weekly that “publishers could be losing out on as much $3 billion to online book piracy” comes a sudden realization of a much larger threat to the viability of the book industry. Apparently, over 2 billion books were “loaned” last year by a cabal of organizations found in nearly every American city and town. Using the same advanced projective mathematics used in the study cited by Publishers Weekly, Go To Hellman has computed that publishers could be losing sales opportunities totaling over $100 Billion per year, losses which extend back to at least the year 2000. These lost sales dwarf the online piracy reported yesterday, and indeed, even the global book publishing business itself.
From what we’ve been able to piece together, the book “lending” takes place in “libraries”. On entering one of these dens, patrons may view a dazzling array of books, periodicals, even CDs and DVDs, all available to anyone willing to disclose valuable personal information in exchange for a “card”. But there is an ominous silence pervading these ersatz sanctuaries, enforced by the stern demeanor of staff and the glares of other patrons. Although there’s no admission charge and it doesn’t cost anything to borrow a book, there’s always the threat of an onerous overdue bill for the hapless borrower who forgets to continue the cycle of not paying for copyrighted material.
