Rogers took the images on the anniversary of the deaths, at the exact moment they occurred, and in the precise position the car was before impact. Whereas some of the final photographs are rendered atmospheric by darkness, many reveal the rather banal landscape witnessed by the subjects in the final seconds before their deaths.


The series includes the deathplaces of artists and writers including Jackson Pollock, Albert Camus and Helmut Newton, and musicians such as Marc Bolan and Eddie Cochrane. It also features perhaps the world’s most famous car crash victim, Princess Diana.

Some of these shots really give the viewer a sense of the final glimpse these cultural figureheads had at the specific moment of death. I’m curious to see if the light for the photographs correspond to the time of impact.
[via CR]

Graphic designer Jonathan Puckey uses a plugin in Adobe Illustrator to create vectorized portaits based on the Delaunay Triangulation.Puckey is able to create these illustrations using the help of Scriptographer and Color Averaging by Jürg Lehni both plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator.

[Jonathan Puckey via 360]

A project that took place over the course of several months and many many many shots, each taken at 6-minute exposures.

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.


While many of the most stunning space images come from huge telescopes or Hubble, Brunier wanted to create photographs of space that were closer to the commonplace human experience of just going outside and looking at the sky.


“I wanted to show a sky that everyone can relate to — with its constellations, its thousands of stars, with names familiar since childhood, its myths shared by all civilizations since Homo became Sapiens,” Brunier said in a release. “The image was therefore made as man sees it, with a regular digital camera under the dark skies in the Atacama Desert and on La Palma.”

[Wired]

The photographer-director grabbed the photos for our June issue — at four times the resolution of high-def — from that mouth-watering video a couple million people happened to notice. The camera folks from Red noticed, too.


“I had a feeling since the Megan Fox experience turned out to be so incredible, that the combination of Greg Williams and Esquire would be the perfect platform to reveal our next-generation equipment for the first time,” says Jarred Land, who holds the enviable title of Fire Chief at Red.


Having finished a prototype just two days before this summer’s scheduled shoot with Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive 2009, Land hand-delivered to Williams the first-ever RedOne camera outfitted with the Epic 5K Mysterium-X Sensor. You know, just a couple of tens of thousands of dollars worth of the world’s most advanced photographic equipment in your carry-on.

Is it wrong that what gets me all hot-and-bothered isn’t Megan Fox but the thoughts of this imminent evolution in video technology? Don’t answer that.
[Esquire]

The word electricity is thought to derive from the ancient Greek elektron, meaning “amber.” When subject to friction, materials such as amber and fur produce an effect that we now know as static electricity. Related phenomena were studied in the eighteenth century, most notably by Benjamin Franklin. To test his theory that lightning is electricity, in 1752 Franklin flew a kite in a thunderstorm. He conducted the experiment at great danger to himself; in fact, other researchers were electrocuted while conducting similar experiments. He not only proved his hypothesis, but also that electricity has positive and negative charges. In 1831, Michael Faraday’s formulation of the law of electromagnetic induction led to the invention of electric generators and transformers, which dramatically changed the quality of human life. Far less well-known is that Faraday’s colleague,William Fox Talbot, was the father of calotype photography. Fox Talbot’s momentous discovery of the photosensitive propertiesof silver alloys led to the development of positive-negative photographic imaging.


The idea of observing the effects of electrical discharges on photographic dry plates reflects my desire to re-create the major discoveries of these scientific pioneers in the darkroom and verify them with my own eyes.

Science + tech collide in Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Lightning Fields series as he uses a 400,000-volt Van De Graaff generator to directly apply electrical charge onto film.

[PotD]

I’m not interested in making pictures of the mayhem. We all know what post-Disney strip malls, towering condominiums and McMansions look like. I want to show what you haven’t seen. I also want to remind you that water is an endangered resource. Living preoccupied lives, water is far from our day-to-day consciousness and concern. My pictures show the intricate and infinite nature of water.


One series was shot in the pristine freshwater rivers and springs of north and central Florida. In open water there is ever-present particulate matter. This layering of mud and muck, although it may appear to interfere with the water’s clarity, is in fact it’s lifeblood: the living and breathing matter seasons the soup and it reflects, refracts and bends the light to create its complexity.

Not sure where all the influx of nature-oriented photography is coming from today, but I can’t deny the beauty of these images from the Everglades by Karen Glaser. There’s an almost painterly element to these images in the lush textures that abound.
[Karen Glaser via lens culture]