I love these desert images from photographer Allie Mount. I discovered Allie on Flickr a couple of weeks ago and was instantly smitten.

These vintage 16mm Kodachrome movies of a family vacation to California are beautiful and completely charming. I recommend clicking through and watching them in full-screen HD, if your computer can support it.

San Francisco, 1958

Home Movies at DisneyLand, Parts 1 and 2

Uploaded by Jeff Altman.

Looks Like Portugal is undoubtedly the central piece in the collection, in which the viewer sees a brightly painted door left slightly ajar, revealing a vestibule adorned with colorful and “ethnic-looking” ceramic tiles. The piece leaves the viewer to ponder: “Where was this taken? Looks like Portugal.”

Today’s humor, via McSweeny’s

Thoughtful essay and wonderful pictures on Art Fag City.

(via @cmonstah on Twitter)

I first discovered Rachel Hulin when she was the blogger behind Photoshelter’s Shoot! The Blog. She set up her own site, the charmingly titled A Photography Blog, about a year ago, and it has been a favorite ever since. Rachel keeps up with an incredible number of photographers, and posts new and exciting work to her site just about every day. Her recent 31 for 31 post is an excellent example.

Rachel and I have been working on a redesign of the site for the last couple of weeks, and it launched yesterday. You should definitely check it out.

Flak Photo is giving away five signed copies of Doug DuBois’ new photo book, All the Days and Nights. Details are on the FlakPhoto Facebook page. All you have to do to enter to win is post your favorite image from the Flak Photo archives on their Facebook Page. Going through the Flak archives is always a good time anyway, so get yourself over there.

Hey, I’ve got one or two images in the Flak Photo archives myself! What do you know about that?

A few of my recent favorites:

• Susan Worsham
  
• Kurt Tong
• Emily Shur
  
• Michael Lundgren

This week at Too Much Chocolate, I interview Brooklyn photographer Tim Briner about his Boonville series. It is beautiful and very thoughtful work, and I was happy to get some insight into Tim’s experiences while working on the project. I think you will enjoy reading it as well.

From the series Boonville, by Timothy Briner

Tim recently finished a small edition of hand-bound books for Boonville, and they look amazing. Each book consists of 37 black and white prints—printed, bound, and signed by the author. I am really looking forward to getting my copy.

Tim shared a few photographs from the making of the book, which you can see below.

Tim will also be exhibiting his work at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in January. A bit too early to mark your calendar, perhaps, but keep it on your radar.

Boonville was created with support from Cannery Works, a New York-based non-profit arts organization.

From the series “Horses on the Backside” by Ellen Rennard

I received a print of the lovely photograph above in the mail this week from Ellen Rennard. I mentioned Ellen’s work recently when she had a piece in Daniel Cooney’s emerging photographer auction, but I thought it would be worthwhile to feature a few more photos from her website. They are so beautiful, and heartfelt.

Ellen’s work can be found at ellenrennard.com, and she has a blog, too.

In lieu of maintaining a proper blogroll, every once in a while I like to post links to a few blogs I have been enjoying. In no particular order:

• B – Blake Andrews – Blake and I seem to have similar interests. I loved today’s post on Sternfeld’s Approximately 17 of 41 Sperm Whales That Beached and Subsequently Died, Florence, Oregon, June 1979, as well as his always challenging (impossible, I say) quizzes.
• Kevin Miyazaki – Wonderful personal work from Kevin as well as the previously linked tinytinygroupshow.
• Lenscratch – Aline Smithson – Aline is always showcasing fantastic work. Where she finds the time or energy to maintain her frequently updated site I will never know, but she is a dynamo.
• Too Much Chocolate – Interviews and image galleries from up-and-coming photographers.

Those of you who love photo books (as I do) will enjoy these two sites dedicated to reviews of new and older titles. Beware, reading either one of these is guaranteed to cost you money.

• 5B4 – Jeff Ladd
• The Photo Book – Doug Stockdale

Please let me know what I have been missing in the comments.

There is some great work in this group show curated by Melanie McWharter. I especially liked Jonathan Feinstein’s contribution, as well as the images by Dan Nelken and Cynthia Greg.