(Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012) WINNER ANIMAL PORTRAIT: One evening, while walking along the riverbed of the Myakka River State Park in Sarasota, Florida, USA, one evening, Larry Lynch came across a group of alligators. It was the dry season, and they had been gorging on fish trapped in the pools left behind as the water receded from the river. One big alligator had clearly eaten its fill. ‘It wasn’t going anywhere in a hurry,’ says Larry. ‘So I set my tripod and camera up about seven metres in front of him and focused on his eyes.’ Just after sunset, Larry set his flash on the lowest setting to give just a tiny bit of light, enough to catch the eyeshine in the alligator’s eyes. Like cats, an alligator has a tapetum lucidum at the back of each eye – a structure that reflects light back into the photoreceptor cells to make the most of low light. The colour of eyeshine differs from species to species. In alligators, it glows red – one good way to locate alligators on a dark night. The greater the distance between its eyes, the longer the reptile, in this case, very long.
Dark Pripyat is an extraordinary interactive collection of pictures and sounds from the abandoned city of Pripyat & the Chernobyl exclusion zone during visits in 2010 - 2011.
Pripyat is an abandoned city in the north of the Ukraine. In 1986 reactor 4 at Chernobyl's nuclear power plant exploded leaving contamination much worse than the nuclear fallout of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan during the 2nd world war in the atmosphere over Russia and Europe, it is the worlds worst nuclear disaster to date.
25 years after the accident myself and a group of urban explorers have made multiple visits to the area documenting our trips in countless images and recordings. Dark Pripyat will showcase some of the most striking and thought provoking images taken within the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Charming eccentric or tolerated local boogyman? The townspeople of Kyjov in Czech Republic could never quite decide. Miroslav Tichý took nearly a hundred photographs a day with his homemade camera, wandering around the streets of his hometown, often spotted at bus stops, the main square, the park and the swimming pool, although he was frequently arrested for lingering around the local pool taking pictures of unsuspecting women.
And here's Miroslav and his camera:
“First of all, you have to have a bad camera”, and, “If you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world.”
Comments
Nikon D2X + 80-400mm f4.5-5.6 lens; 8 sec at f8; ISO 200; SB-800 flash; Gitzo 3125 tripod; Manfrotto 468RC2 Ball Head.
More here: http://www.urbanpixels.co.uk/site/urbanpixels-blog/urbex/chernobyl-pripyat
Free ibook for the iPad:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/dark-pripyat/id504131884?mt=11
slightly too far into the hdr look for my tastes, mind, but i'd love to go to chernobyl.
600 sunrises atop Mt. Fuji by Yu Yamauchi
And here's Miroslav and his camera:
'Sunrise over the ancient city of Bagan - Myanmar'
Steve McCurry
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
Available until: 10:44PM Tue, 6 Aug 2013
(thought i might have been a little confused....this is a big help)
http://davidryle.com/
'fairy pools', scotland.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ariellecalderon/30-sights-that-will-give-you-a-serious-case-of-wanderlust
Bob Mazzer
and
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/i-felt-the-tube-was-mine-and-i-was-there-to-take-pictures-40-years-of-going-underground-with-bob-mazzer-8736200.html
http://lightbox.time.com/2011/09/07/revisiting-911-unpublished-photos-by-james-nachtwey/
http://www.cedricdelsaux.com
https://e.nationalgeographic.com/pub/sf/FormLink?_ri_=X0Gzc2X=WQpglLjHJlYQGgY0BNJzfXv8zgzazetkva903Ikfhzffvt7oWf1nVXMtX=WQpglLjHJlYQGrFCAchYXq7gPA1tzcbL88R3qd5zchAqJzb2pf&_ei_=EmKw7b8wc39AGbHzXbi74rHfY4C2HQa9WbvxBDPrK9Tm8OjYzJ4U.
All Fazzy snappers...GET IN!
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/10/03/sandra_hoyn_fighting_kids_looks_at_muay_thai_competition_for_young_children.html