“11-year-old Joey, who killed his first deer when he was seven, lives in Kentucky with his family.” - Where Children Sleep: James Mollison’s Photographs. It was very hard to choose one to use for linkage because there are all sorts interesting or sad for all sorts of reasons. You should go and look. (via @brainpicker)
Aidan on the beach last month. Pic via iPhone, contrasty enfaffening via laptop. Click here to make with the bigness.
Test shot, Jupiter 37-A 135mm/f3.5 Soviet-era manual lens. Aperture wide open. I need to be tighter on my focus control, but just lookit that 12-bladed aperture smooth bokeh there.
Future Sister-In-Law’s 50th birthday at the weekend, and I was rousted into doing some photo work. Used my newly acquired 55mm f1.4 Olde Manual Chinon lens since we were going to be indoors and I don’t like flash. Now I have to burn 70 images onto DVD. :(
Future Wife and Young Mr Morgan.
Very busy night for some.
(As almost always, click to embiggen.)
Test shot, Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm/2.8 Tessar wide open and ISO 1600. Future Brother-In-Law, who was round visiting when the postman brought the lens.
(clicking makes with the embiggening)
Chinon 55mm f1.4, old, old, incredibly old M42 manual lens. Both shot at f1.4, the can slightly overexposed (in original; fixx0red now) through my own fault. Thoughts: detail on focal plane is crisp, edge contrast chroma is minimal, bokeh is surprisingly smooth. Don’t know how the latter will fare on single light points, though; don’t know how many blades the aperture has. Also: gives camera a satisfying heft again (since standard kit lens is very light and the body weighs less than my old Nikon).
Still, for (edit; stupid memory) sixty-five quid, that’s a damn bargain.
The roughly 54-hectare Manila North Cemetery is considered to be the largest and one of the oldest cemeteries in Metro Manila. It houses hundreds of thousands of the city’s Catholic dead while it hosts a living community of more than 2,000 inside mausoleums and makeshift personal spaces built atop “apartment-type” tombs. It is owned by the local government of Manila and has already established a conventional locale with its residents; requiring them to have titles for the space they occupy and even permits for the businesses they establish within the premises.— A Placid Coexistence with the Departed, by John Javellana. His accompanying photo set is, equally, well worth your time.
Woman’s Face Made of 500 Faces, via Geeks Are Sexy (and Gizmodo).
Though the headline seems a bit serial-killerish, the actual result of artist clickflashwhirr’s portrait made up of 500 self portraits is creepy/awesome.
Awesome indeed.
New baby, family strike a pose.
New baby, family as they normally are.
Olivetti Complex, Tokyo, Japan, 1972
(Kenzo Tange)
(via panzertron)
