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New Photos – Iceland 2011 Black and Whites

April 29, 2012 by mg33

I’ve been working on editing some black and white photos I took in Iceland during our vacation there in August 2011 and added about 30 of them to Flickr. Many of these were in my batch of photos I really didn’t pay much attention to when working on the color photos since we were there, but some of these perfectly capture the first two days we were there. It rained a lot, with lots of dark clouds that gave an ominous feel to the first long stretch of the drive we made from Hella to Hofn along the south coast. Driving through the largest lava field to have flowed in modern times, the straight and flat road provided us views of mountains and glaciers to the north (often hidden by low clouds), and the flat expanse of the plains as they extended to the sea.

A mix of laziness and being busy with more important things has kept me from getting a full trip recap posted here – as well as for our trip to Ireland nearly a year ago – but I’m hoping to get to that soon. I think about Iceland often, and I’ve made a promise to myself to try and go back in six years to hike across the country. We saw so many beautiful things driving the Ring Road around the country; there’s a world in the middle we didn’t see, and it’s something I hope to get back to experience eventually.

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Everyday Photos by Kristian Hjelle

April 6, 2012 by mg33

Everyday Photos is a real-time documentary of the life of Kristian Hjelle, captured with a Fujifilm X100 and a 23mm Fujinon lens. There are some really great photographs on his site; all of them have a decidedly “film” feel to them and there’s some great color saturation and monotone shots throughout the site.

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Iceland 2011 – New Photos on Flickr

March 5, 2012 by mg33

I’ve added some new photos taken during our trip to Iceland last August to Flickr, and it’s really making me miss the week we spent there. Sometimes I’m the worst at reaching the ultimate end-point in the process of choosing photos, getting them into galleries on Flickr, and working to get them into the photo portfolio I’m currently working on at my other site, mg33.net. Getting the new version of that site setup soon has at least motivated me to take stock of the photos I have yet to add. I’ll have a full gallery posted here soon, as well as a daily recap of our trip. I’d be remiss if I didn’t say that if you’re at all intrigued by any of the photos you see, go there and see the country for yourself as soon as you can. It is a breathtaking place that photos hardly do justice to.

Iceland Day 5 Photos

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Wookmark And Some Tumblr Favorites

February 29, 2012 by mg33

Wookmark.com is a relatively new image bookmarking site that I was slow to use at first, but have lately found to be invaluable as a way to quickly and easily bookmark photography and design imagery. With an easy to use browser widget, it takes just a few seconds to bookmark an image, add it to a group, and post it to your wookmark profile. There’s even an RSS feed for your profile so that you can further share everything you’ve bookmarked; I’ve added mine to the right column below my Instagram photos. Everything that’s bookmarked is shared across the website, so other users can see what you’ve posted, and vice versa. Since my Tumblr site – StandHereForever.com – is dedicated to color landscape photography, Wookmark has become a nice place to share some excellent black and white photography I’ve come across from other Tumblr users in the past few days:

From soothly.tumblr.com:

From another-death.tumblr.com:

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Making Artwork With Multiple iPhone Apps

February 28, 2012 by mg33

One of my few New Year’s resolutions for 2012 was to start spending more time on artwork in Photoshop, and get back to some of the collage styled imagery I used to really enjoy making years ago. These days Photoshop gets relegated mostly to photo editing and website design for a few projects, and I was ready to have a bit more fun just seeing where I could take my creativity with no real goal in mind. I came up with the plan to set a timer for 30 minutes, and see what I could come up with in that time, allowing five minutes at the end to finalize any last updates I was making. I did this once in January… not the best start on this goal.

So, imagine my excitement when Seth Hardie wrote a post recently on iso50 about inspiration and creativity with iPhone imagery apps that included just the right amount of examples to make me think I could take accomplish this project using my phone and some new apps. I’ve been an Instagram user for more than a year and have enjoyed it quite a bit. Reading his post and reviewing some of the photo apps out there a few weeks ago instantly made me realize I was not only missing out on a new way to be creative, but also the ability to do so anywhere I was with my phone using the photos I’ve already taken and continue to take daily.

Geometric patterns and collage artwork have long been big interests of mine and I’m thrilled to have these tools at my fingertips. In the gallery below you’ll find all the images I’ve posted to Instragram and Flickr in the past few weeks and it will continue to be updated as new ones are added.

iPhone Artwork Image Gallery

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Jacob Sutton – LED Surfer

February 17, 2012 by mg33

I just found this over at QBN and could watch hours of this. Such incredible footage combined with a perfect background of minimal piano and the crackling, echoing audio of what sounds like communications between planes and an air traffic control tower. This is really something that could have been taken in a completely different direction with faster music and tons of cuts between the footage. Luckily for us, it wasn’t.

As described on nowness.com:
Fashion photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton swaps the studio for the slopes of Tignes in the Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France, with a luminous after hours short starring Artec pro snowboarder William Hughes. The electrifying film sees Hughes light up the snow-covered French hills in a bespoke L.E.D.-enveloped suit courtesy of designer and electronics whizz John Spatcher. “I was really drawn to the idea of a lone character made of light surfing through darkness,” says Sutton of his costume choice. “I’ve always been excited by unusual ways of lighting things, so it seemed like an exciting idea to make the subject of the film the only light source.” Sutton, who has created work for the likes of Hermès, Burberry and The New York Times, spent three nights on a skidoo with his trusty Red Epic camera at temperatures of -25C to snap Hughes carving effortlessly through the deep snow, even enlisting his own father to help maintain the temperamental suit throughout the demanding shoot. “Filming in the suit was the most surreal thing I’ve done in 20 years of snowboarding,” says Hughes of the charged salopettes. “Luckily there was plenty of vin rouge to keep me warm, and Jacob’s enthusiasm kept everyone going through the cold nights.”