Flickr appears to be gearing up to make an even bigger splash in the mobile photo sharing wars. A job listing posted by Yahoo a week ago reveals that the company is looking for iOS developers who can build iPhone and iPad apps “from scratch.” Those developers would be working with the Flickr mobile team on “a tremendously long list of new features, programs and technologies set to come online this year,” in order to “improve Flickr.”
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Flickr Looking to Take Its Mobile App to the Next Level Later This Year —Computerworld
The Polaroid Picture Was Instantaneous, But It Was Artists Who Made It Eternal
“I don’t know what the hell I’m going to do,” Chuck Close told an NPR interviewer when Polaroid stopped making instant film in 2008. He wasn’t the only artist attached to the medium.
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Gorgeous Aurora Photos and Time-Lapse Showing the Sky Over Lake Superior
For over a year now, photographer Shawn Stockman Malone of LakeSuperiorPhoto has been pointing her cameras at the sky over Michigan’s Lake Superior and capturing dazzling displays of the Northern Lights.
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Largest Photowalk in History Set to Take Place Next Tuesday in San Francisco
The Google+ Photos team along with photographers Thomas Hawk, Trey Ratcliff and Robert Scoble are organizing what they think may turn out to be the biggest photowalk in the history of, well, photowalking. Set for next Tuesday May 14th, the event already has almost 700 confirmed guests via Google+. Read more…
“A Final Embrace: The Most Haunting Photograph from Bangladesh” —TIME's Lightbox
(Warning: The photo shows victims of the tragic factory collapse in Bangladesh)
“Many powerful photographs have been made in the aftermath of the devastating collapse of a garment factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. But one photo, by Bangladeshi photographer Taslima Akhter, has emerged as the most heart wrenching, capturing an entire country’s grief in a single image.”
Sid Kaplan: Legendary Darkroom Printer and Quiet Master Photographer
Have you heard of Sid Kaplan? If you’ve studied the works of great American photographers, you’ve likely at least seen some of Kaplan’s handiwork. Although he’s a master photographer in his own right, Kaplan had made a name for himself as one of the industry’s finest photo printers. Over the past four or five decades, Kaplan has made prints for some of the biggest names in photography.
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Peter Belanger: The Man Behind Many of Apple’s Iconic Product Images
You know those iconic minimalist product photos for Apple gadgets? Have you ever wondered about how they’re shot and who shoots them?
One of the people behind the photos is San Francisco-based photographer Peter Belanger. The video above is a behind-the-scenes look into how Belanger photographed the iPhone 3GS for a 2009 issue of Macworld magazine.
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Shooting a Massive Gigapixel Panorama of the Manhattan Skyline
I focus on a relatively obscure (though rapidly becoming more popular) area of photography called gigapixel-resolution photography. I use a robotic panoramic mount to capture tens if not hundreds of images of the same location and then stitch the images together to create a single massive photograph. I’ve combined this technique with High Dynamic Range imaging to create HDR photographs that are anywhere from 200 megapixels to 4 gigapixels in resolution size.
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How One Photographer Rediscovered His Passion After Going Legally Blind
Photographer Gary Albertson calls himself “the luckiest unlucky guy in the world.” In 2010, after decades spent shooting the outdoors, he developed a rare form of glaucoma that has left him with little more than a circle of peripheral vision in each eye. But after some time away from the camera he’s come back stronger than ever, creating photography so stunning he’s attracted the attention of a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist. Read more…
Eerie Photos of Car Interiors After Major Accidents
If you’ve ever been in a bad car accident, the images Danish photographer Nicolai Howalt‘s Car Crash Studies may bring back bad memories. The project is a photographic study of cars that have been involved in severe (and possibly fatal) accidents.
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