flickering pictures

A few days ago, some guy on MetaFilter asked “What Is YOUR Best Photography Tip, Secret, Trick, Lesson, Technique, or Hack?” The resulting 72 replies (so far) contain a wealth of tried-and-true tips on framing, composition, colour, playing with light and other goodies. It’s worth a long look if you’re an amateur photographer like me.

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I know I got back from Asia a month ago, but I’ve finally had a few moments to get my photos together, Photoshop them until they don’t suck, and put them up here for general consumption. Have a look see at the new listings under South Korea and Japan on the photography page. And by [...]

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From a Flickr gallery devoted to the “most interesting” photos taken by Cory Doctorow, the Canadian sci-fi novelist, Guardian columnist, public speaker, copyfighter, civil liberties campaigner and co-editor of the most linked-to blog on the Net. And I haven’t met him or anything, but he appears to be an all-around awesome guy.

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Told you they’d be worth the wait. : ) More pictures and a much-belated post soon…

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Now that the posting part of the site is up and running smoothly, I should have some time over the next while to work on the photography pages. I’m working with some friends to showcase their work in a sort of gallery of galleries, and it’s starting to come together — so far we’ve got [...]

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I see a lot of neat stuff on the Web, but this really hit me. The brilliant gang at Mental Floss somehow discovered an anonymous beta site featuring 6,000 scanned polaroids — one taken each day from March 31, 1979 to October 25, 1997. Some impressive detective work by the Mental Floss crew turned up [...]

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Dove’s much-ballyhooed “Real Beauty” advertising campaign makes a point of showcasing “real women” — love handles and all — as opposed to the scrawny models and twenty-somethings that typically prance around in beauty product ads. As it turns out, the Dove models may not be so real after all. The New Yorker‘s Lauren Collins recently [...]

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Look into my eyes and say no by ~Fatts on deviantART A good friend of mine is a photographer, globetrotter, modeling agent and quite possibly the only Palestinian-Canadian in Beijing. The lady above is of one of his clients — a Russian model named Tatiana Gritsayenko. Click here for a SFW gallery of his work [...]

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National Geographic reprints the amazing first-person account of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian soldier who escaped from a British P.O.W. camp in modern-day Pakistan and fled to Tibet, where he ended up as one of the Dalai Lama’s tutors. The article chronicles his extended stay in Lhasa, and originally ran 53 years ago. Here’s an excerpt: [...]

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I admit it, I like lists. List of strange things, cool objects, bizarre coincindences, you name it. Usually I spare you guys the full extent of my geekiness, but this one was too neat to pass up. The good people at the aptly named List Universe have compiled images, descriptions and causes of some of [...]

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