I saw this photo, week ending Sun., Dec., 9 2007

I'd like to start off with an old favorite of mine, Pete Turner, who's always been able to discover an image in the most prosaic surroundings. This is a group of photos called "classics". I could not get a URL for just one, so you'll have to look at all of them. I suspect he may have made most of these with a Nikon F but I don't know that he didn't use a rangefinder for at least some.


http://www.peteturner.com/Classics/index.html
 
robert blu said:
http://davidalanharvey.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/26/l1010393.jpg
this harvey's image has a strong blue shade: in my view blue is a colour related to a spirirual experience. The diagonal gives a dynamic feel, which in conjunction with the girls, whose head is not visible gives me a sense of no stability. On purpose I did not check (yet) the Allan blog, I just try to react to this image for what I see in it . But now it is difficult, i have to think about. Maybe it s only a picture of a unknown girl in a disco-pub...
robert
PS it s my birthday and I promized my wife not to spend too much time in front of a computer tonight..
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ok, I check the allan blog and it s a picture of his girlfriend in the hotel! easier explanation than i was thinking ! but great composition and sense of colour !
rob
 
Just south of San Francisco, California is a place called Mavericks where some of the world's biggest waves crash ashore. Surfers from all over the world have been riding waves at Mavericks for the past couple of weeks as winter storms swirl about over the Pacific. Of course this means lots of photographers with big lenses and high speed cameras catching near-death wipeouts like this one:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/11/MN4ITQULT.DTL


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Sorry, I'm late posting my pick -- I got confused over the applicable week.😱

My pick is from a photographer whose landscape work I've come back to again and again for inspiration. He goes by GeeBee, and his website features photographs in bw and color of Northamptonshire. Some of his bw work is done w/ a Leica IIIf and a Summitar lens, and is gorgeous. Methinks he's also a master of the darkroom.

I assume that we are not posting actual photos (only links) in order to avoid violating copyright laws. In the last week, I really liked the one linked to below, both for its composition, technical skill, and shear beauty.
http://www.geebeephoto.com/2007/07383.htm
 
Today I saw this photo set by Robyn Hunter at the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/.../africa_rural_hardship_in_zimbabwe/html/1.stm

It's about the crisis in Zimbabwe.

I especially liked #6 which shows a discarded Z$1,000 bank note in a poor village. It's not worth picking it up as the exchange rate is now US$1 = Z$4,000,000.

This country is resource rich, but will surely implode sooner rather than later.
 
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