Stunning Portrait

From: The Guardian

The photograph captures a sensitivity and intelligence that makes this monkey look like it is sitting for its portrait by Rembrandt. It reveals a staggeringly insightful, wise, and melancholy face. Like Rembrandt’s son Titus in the portrait of him by his father that hangs in London’s Wallace Collection, the lesula looks right back at its beholder, calm and pensive, examining you as you examine it. Its eyes have the depth and frankness of those seen in moving portraits on Roman-era mummies from the Fayoum, or in Antonello da Messina’s haunting portrait of a man gazing back out of a glassy oil panel.

 

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Going Places

Dahon in tow …

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Fantastic Landscape Photography

Very cool interview with Mitch Dobrowner, winner of the 2012 Sony World Photography Award for his b&w landscape (and weather) photography. His submission photos are here. His own portfolio site is here. Here are two examples of his work: These are stunning shots. Some look so surreal that one might think they have been photoshopped. However:

I treat the digital sensor as if it were a piece of film; I filter for my scene with traditional filters at the time of capture. I’m conscious that adjustments made later in Photoshop are destructive and so I prefer working in this way. I’m not saying this is the fine art, or purist, way of doing it, I’m just saying it’s my preferred way. […] It’s my vision and what I saw at the time and it has integrity. The judges checked my RAW files and were happy that they were more or less what I submitted as my entry because I’m doing most of my work ‘in camera.’

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Recovery Program

Recovery Program (after suffering from severe mussel pain).

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Mussel Pain #2

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Mussel Pain #1

(After having two pots of mussels at Brussels Bistro in Laguna Beach)

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My kind of town …

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Superstition Mountains

Taken a few weeks ago while flying over Apache Junction and past Flat Iron Peak in the Superstition Mountains.

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