Refenestration Daily.
The SS American Star was grounded off the west coast of Fuerteventura in 1994, and has been rotting there since. I wasn’t sure what to expect at the site, but it’s a surreal view of a deteriorating corpse of a ship.
The pictures fascinate me, but I just don’t know why. Perhaps it’s the nature of destruction that wouldn’t normally be seen with a ship that size (somewhat like the curiosity in seeing the Enterprise crash-landed into a planet, I suppose).
These days, I seem to be the only one around here without a digital camera (though not for a lack of trying). Anyhow, I’ve found that many Dallas-ites have little idea about what Pittsburgh looks like (not that I blame them), and I would have liked to taken some pictures while I was here visiting.
Dave Farber, CMU professor and maintainer of the interesting-people mailing list has placed some of his Christmastime photos of Pittsburgh on his website.
They’re not glamorizing Pittsburgh, and nor are there that many pictures there. But, they give a good idea of the city.
Photo.net is a photography website with all kinds of information, from forums to how-to articles and photo galleries. In the galleries, anyone can upload photos or comment on the photos of others.
In particular, I enjoy their photo-of-the-week section. Some of them, like this winter scene are almost surreal, while others wouldn’t be out of place on a poster in a museum-store.
Most recently, I was struck by this photo-of-the-week of a couple on a train platform. The blur of the background as the couple remains in focus looks almost like a computer-manipulated effect; but, it apparently wasn’t.
PC World reports that various camera makers are working on a standard to ease photo printing.
A group of six digital still camera makers and printer vendors, including Sony and Hewlett-Packard, have jointly proposed a new industry standard that allows images recorded by a digital still camera to be printed out without using a computer, they announced on Monday.
The DPS standard—which is a name, not an acronym—is being proposed by Canon, Sony, HP, Fuji Photo Film, Olympus Optical, and Seiko Epson. […]
I’m pleased to hear that, though if I buy a new digicam within the next couple weeks (which is currently the plan), I suppose it won’t have that feature. C'est la vie.
Via David Chess’ blog is this page featuring several long-exposure night photographs (around 16 seconds each). The lighting takes on a surreal quality and the results are almost creepy (yet fascinating). I think the second-from-the-top is my favorite.