Archives for November 2009

New photographs from Fire Island

Winter photographs from Fire Island. continue reading

Funding Brandon Schulman – A Portrait of America Left Behind

Photograph by Brandon Schulman

I don’t know Brandon Schulman, and I had never heard of him before yesterday. I was browsing Kickstarter the other day when I came across his project proposal, which looked interesting to me. I watched the video and visited his website, and decided to donate some money to his project.

Birds!

Andrew Zuckerman’s photographs of birds are mesmerizing and beautiful.

Western Screech Owl, Photograph by Andrew Zuckerman

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Gift ideas for the urban outdoorsman

If you have a special landscape photographer in your life and you’re not sure what to get them for Christmas, here are a few practical ideas to get you started. This list is based on years of spending long days out in the wet and cold. Over time, I’ve learned a bit about what works and what doesn’t, and the items on the list below have served me very well.

Darren Rigo

Cobweb, By Darren Rigo

I like Darren Rigo’s Displacement series quite a bit. I see a connection to John Pfahl’s Altered Landscapes, which I have come to think of as some of the most interesting landscape photography of the 20th century. Whether intentional or not, it’s clearly working; I find this to be a very strong group of images.