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nationalgeographicmagazine: Following a Moon Shadow Image...

Mon, 28 May 2012 23:07:18 +0100

Following a Moon Shadow
Image courtesy PHL/UPR Arecibo

Seen from one of Japan’s MTSAT meteorological satellites, the shadow of the moon darkens part of the North Pacific during the annular solar eclipse last Sunday and Monday. Despite the diminutive shadow shown, the moon is actually a little bigger than a quarter the size of Earth.

An annular eclipse happens when the moon lines up between Earth and the sun, and when the dark moon’s apparent diameter is smaller than the visible disk of the sun, leaving a ring—or annulus—of fiery light around the edges.

n-a-s-a: Prometheus Creating Saturn Ring Streamers Credit:...

Mon, 28 May 2012 23:06:47 +0100

n-a-s-a:

Prometheus Creating Saturn Ring Streamers

Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA \

"To see life, to see the world; to eyewitness great events — Ralph Morse, Larry Burrows, and Jim..."

Mon, 28 May 2012 23:05:23 +0100

““To see life, to see the world; to eyewitness great events — Ralph Morse, Larry Burrows, and Jim Nachtwey more than fulfilled Luce’s defintion of what photography should be about.””

- Bobbie Baker Burrows, Director of Photography, LIFE Books

Here, in a video created to honor three recipients of Time Inc’s prestigious Briton Hadden Lifetime Achievement Award (named for the co-founder, with Henry Luce, of TIME), the profession and the passion of war photography — as practiced across decades by acknowledged masters — get their due.

(via timelightbox)

n-a-s-a: Lyrid Meteor and Milky Way Credit & Copyright:...

Mon, 28 May 2012 23:04:38 +0100

n-a-s-a:

Lyrid Meteor and Milky Way

Credit & Copyright: Tony Rowell

guy: Sentinels of the Arctic by Niccolò Bonfadini: During...

Sat, 26 May 2012 11:07:42 +0100

guy:

Sentinels of the Arctic by Niccolò Bonfadini:

During winter, with temperatures ranging from -40 to -15, the trees in some areas of the Finnish Lapland get completely covered by snow and ice. This makes for a unique landscape, where everything is white and frozen as far as the eyes can see. That morning I slept in my tent to watch the sun rise from the top of a hill; an eerie mist was forming around the trees, enhancing the mysterious atmosphere.

newyorker: Click-through for a photo slideshow of Timm...

Sat, 26 May 2012 11:07:06 +0100

newyorker:

Click-through for a photo slideshow of Timm Rautert’s work capturing the Amish and Hutterites, and for a description of his efforts “photographing-those-very-uncomfortable-with-being-photographed”: http://nyr.kr/KSyRFs

lomographicsociety: Fujifilm Says Goodbye to APS Film Another...

Sat, 26 May 2012 11:06:43 +0100

lomographicsociety:

Fujifilm Says Goodbye to APS Film

Another one bites the dust. Fuji Film Imaging Systems, Inc. has officially announced the end of sales for Advanced Photo System (APS) films, production of which already stopped in July 2011. While it hasn’t been a popular format for a while now, the news still brings an analogue frown to our faces.

magnumohio: Dean Feller and Jesse Reese American Legion Post...

Sat, 26 May 2012 01:03:19 +0100

magnumohio:

Dean Feller and Jesse Reese American Legion Post #205. Dover Burial Park. Dover, Ohio.

Jesse: I was drafted while I was still in high school, and did 35 missions as a tailgunner in World War II. I got my high school diploma at a base after I came back from Europe. Our post is in pretty bad shape. We have over 85 members on our roll, but we’re lucky if we can pull together the six able-bodied members we need to have a meeting. Our Commander is laid up after back surgery, our Second Vice Commander has heart problems, our Chaplain can hardly walk, and our Adjunct is also having problems with his legs. I’m still getting around pretty good for a guy who’s had four hip replacements, but none of us is getting any younger, and —I’m not going to lie to you— it’s tougher all the time to get new members. It started with Vietnam; the vets have their own organizations and like to pal around with guys their own age. It’s the same thing with the guys who were in Iraq and Afghanistan. Who can blame them? Like everybody else we’re running short of money, but we’ve raised over $1200 this year, which isn’t bad, all things considered. The older you get, the more you find yourself in the territory of “all things considered.”

timelightbox: March 31, 2012. Children play with slingshots in...

Thu, 24 May 2012 18:12:36 +0100

timelightbox:

March 31, 2012. Children play with slingshots in Sirte, the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown. Sirte was one of the last loyalist strongholds in the nearly year-long war that ended the 42-year regime of Muammar Gaddafi, and it sustained more damage than any other Libyan city—in just a little over a month of heavy fighting. Many residents who admit to having been Gaddafi supporters now worry about what will become of them in the new Libya.

Abigail Hauslohner drove across Libya with photographer Yuri Kozyrev, and found a new country along the way. See more here.

life: Nevada Ghosts: Rare Photos From an A-Bomb Test

Thu, 24 May 2012 18:04:56 +0100

life:

Nevada Ghosts: Rare Photos From an A-Bomb Test

magnumohio: Abandoned day care center. Dover, Ohio In the...

Thu, 24 May 2012 18:04:37 +0100

magnumohio:

Abandoned day care center. Dover, Ohio

In the middle of our longest stretch on the road in Ohio, we decided to duck into the town of Dover to see if we could find anything to shoot or anyone to talk to. As we drove down one abandoned street after another, we had the growing suspicion that something was wrong. “It’s like Three Mile Island,” one of us said out loud, and we all laughed. After fifteen or so minutes, though, the desolate vacuum feel of the place started to feel sort of oppressive and creepy. The town seemed to be utterly paralyzed. Finally, while trolling down an alley, we encountered a man and a little boy batting a badminton birdie back and forth across a clothes line. The boy was maybe eight years old and had a mohawk. We pulled over and I asked them where everyone was.

“There’s been a chemical spill,” the man said, and the boy raised his arms dramatically and added, “It was flaming ball of death. They closed the schools.”

Further investigation revealed that there had, in fact, been a spill of Dipropylene Glycol at the local Dover Chemical Company that resulted in the release of a vapor cloud that was visible for miles. Interstate 77 was closed for four hours in both directions between New Philadelphia and Bolivar, and an automatic phone alert was sent to area residents advising them to stay inside, close all windows, and turn off air conditioners.

The all clear was sounded at two p.m.

Dandelion seed heads in an English churchyard

Thu, 24 May 2012 17:51:47 +0100

Dandelion seed heads in an English churchyard

picturedept: Jon Lowenstein Photographer Jon Lowenstein took...

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:30:08 +0100

picturedept:

Jon Lowenstein

Photographer Jon Lowenstein took this wonderful photo of last weekend’s anti-NATO demonstrations in Chicago. Lowenstein, who recently received a Guggenheim fellowship, has spent a decade photographing the people and neighborhoods in the South Side of Chicago. Last month, on assignment for Newsweek/Daily Beast, he photographed South Side neighborhoods hit by a dramatic rise in crime and gang violence. View that work here. And you can see many more of Jon’s photographs here.

Field Pattern | Photo by Richard Flint

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:09:59 +0100

Field Pattern | Photo by Richard Flint

photographsonthebrain: Harlan Crichton – ‘In The Shadow of The...

Wed, 23 May 2012 09:29:54 +0100

photographsonthebrain:

Harlan Crichton – ‘In The Shadow of The Burning Dog’ on LPV Magazine

Harlan’s Tumblr: harlancrichton.tumblr.com

life: Not published in LIFE. Gay rights event, 1971. In late...

Wed, 23 May 2012 09:28:34 +0100

life:

Not published in LIFE. Gay rights event, 1971.

In late 1971, two years after the Stonewall riots in New York sparked the modern gay rights movement in America, and twelve months before LIFE ceased publishing as a weekly, the magazine featured an article on “gay liberation” that, seen a full 40 years later, feels sensational, measured and somehow endearingly, deeply square all at the same time.

Read more here.

timelightbox: Lake Casitas, CA 8, 2009. Chromogenic print...

Tue, 22 May 2012 19:42:37 +0100

timelightbox:

Lake Casitas, CA 8, 2009. Chromogenic print soaked in Lake Casitas water.

Matthew Brandt, whose work is featured in a show at Yossi Milo Gallery in New York City, makes photographs that are ‘of’ his subjects in two senses of the word. See more here.

ckck: A V-22 Osprey being refueled for a night mission. Iraq,...

Mon, 21 May 2012 20:15:01 +0100

ckck:

A V-22 Osprey being refueled for a night mission. Iraq, 2008.

photojojo: Don Pettit, a NASA astronaut, has one-upped us...

Mon, 21 May 2012 12:51:25 +0100

photojojo:

Don Pettit, a NASA astronaut, has one-upped us all.

He shot a series of 30 second exposures and stacked them make this amazing photo.

Star trails from space are so much cooler than star trails from Earth, in part because the city lights on Earth make trails, too!

Star Trails Shot from Space

magnumohio: David (third from right), U.S. Air Force. Suffield...

Mon, 21 May 2012 12:50:53 +0100

magnumohio:

David (third from right), U.S. Air Force. Suffield Township, Ohio.

I just got back from six months in Afghanistan, but I can’t really talk about that much. I’ve got two weeks to spend with my family and friends, and pretty much everyone important in my life is standing right here. I signed up because I wanted to do something different before I settled down, and no one in my family had ever served. I love it, and it’s a great experience, but this is where I’ll be in the end, and where I’ll stay. Every one of my relatives lives within five minutes of my parents’ house. My grandfather’s farm is just up the road, and that’s my favorite place to hang out. This is all I know and all I want. Small town, that’s my thing. There’s nothing big out here. The county fair in August is about as big as it gets.