I want to shout out to Juha Arvid Helminen for his amazing photo series on some kind of dark anonymous army. The set has an incredibly satisfying consistency of subject matter, lighting, and tone, all of which are handled beautifully. I would love to be able to take pictures like these.
In other news, keep an eye out for some Christmas photos from time spent with the family soon.
I came home from Birmingham to a 40-foot bonfire today. It was a nice welcome home, except that there was no party, no beer, no music, nothing. Just a giant fire burning bright and crackly all by itself in the field between my house and the train tracks. Shane and I were heading out to grab some food, and we were the first people to go scope it out. Eventually a few other neighbors showed up, but that was about it. The fire department came and watched it burn with us.
This is how I’d like my future home to be laid out. I’m having a hard time understanding the terribly translated statement from the designer, but I’m sure the thinking is as clever as that awesome little bedroom hanging from the ceiling.
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This is the Milky Way, as documented by a ton of shots out of a Nikon D3.
WIRED has an interesting article on two guys who put together a killer panorama of the Milky Way Galaxy. It’s called a home-brew hubble, guys. Haven’t you heard of it?
Working in the dark, dry highlands of Chile with a Nikon D3 digital camera (50 mm lens open at f5.6), Serge Brunier and Frédéric Tapissier patched together 1,200 photos of the night sky into the composite that you see above.
Check out the video:
By Serge Brunier and Frédéric Tapissier, via WIRED.
I don’t watch, play, or care about tennis in any way, but that only testifies to how impressed I was by this video of Roger Federer playing against Novak Djokovic in the U.S. Open Semi-Finals. This shot makes me want to play tennis, just to become as much of a showoff as Federer.
I wonder if some well-placed photographer got a photo of this happening. I’ll keep my eyes peeled and share it here if I find it.