This is the personal blog of Bobby Caputo, Photographer from Queens, NY.
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Coffee Drinker,
Beer Nerd,
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I post what interests me. Photography, Music, Coffee, Craft Beer,Food, & Politics.
Plus a bunch of random nonsense I find entertaining on the web.
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You can't create a great moment, they just happen. You need to capture it before it's gone.
All I know is that I’ve been to a lot of places and I will always prefer New York City.
Bagpipes in the sky, construction worker playing his bagpipes on construction site, 1957. Photo by Arthur Rothstein. Photo from the Museum of the City of New York.
Birdseye view of “Pigtown” an area that today encompasses parts of the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn and also Flatbush. Unknown year, possibly turn of the century or before. Photo from the New York City Municipal Archives.
3rd Avenue El, near Grand Street, Bowery, unknown year. Photo from the Library of Congress.
Midsummer in Latvia
Photograph by Espen Rasmussen, Panos
A young girl collects flowers on a hilltop near Pilskalns, Latvia, to decorate her hair for Midsummer celebrations. The festivities mark the longest day and shortest night of the year and usually take place between June 21 and 23. In Latvia, Midsummer is a national holiday.
(Source: National Geographic)
Cameron Davidson Captures Our World from Above
Cameron Davidson is an aerial photographer who also shoots location portraits. Based in Washington D.C., Davidson has been enthralled with photography since he took his first pictures as a young boy. Inspired by his great-grandfather, he gained a healthy respect for nature, then learning from his mother, a helicopter pilot, he infused flight into his photography. Having found his calling he has been most recognized for his works photographing Chesapeake Bay and Haiti.
The Floating Temple: How to Lift a Seven Million Pound, 112-year-old Building
Something’s up in Provo, Utah and it weighs around seven million pounds. It’s the 112-year-old exterior of the Provo Tabernacle that was severely damaged in a 2010 fire but has since been saved by the LDS church so it can be converted into a temple. Engineers first gutted the damaged interior and then supported the exterior walls with special scaffolding as they dug down to create space for a two story basement, so in actuality the building hasn’t even moved. The entire structure is now on stilts some 40 feet in the air and from some angles appears to be floating above ground, such as in the first photograph above provided by Brian Hansen. Additional photos courtesy the LDS Newsroom.
Photos of Patterns and Repetition Spotted During Urban Exploration
Take a look at photographer Jared Lim‘s portfolio, and many of his photographs might look to you like they’re the product of liberal Photoshop Clones Stamp usage. They feature repeating shapes, colors, and patterns found in various cities’ urban environments.
Based in Singapore, Lim is an urban explorer — he calls himself a “wanderer” — and says he has always been drawn to geometry, lines, curves, patterns, and abstract designs.
Thus, architectural photography has been a natural fit for him ever since he picked up a camera. While traveling to different cities around the world for his travel industry job, Lim captures things that catch his eye in monochrome, in color, and on the street.In an interview over on Chase Jarvis’ blog, Lim says he does minimal editing on his images:
I try to get my composition and lighting right during shooting so as to minimize the amount of post correction work. Post work mainly involves correction of lens distortion and perspective, because I am rather meticulous in my composition. I love strong colors and most of my work reflects that.
Best Before End
The exhibition, “Best Before End,” by the British photographer Stephen Gill incorporates a number of photographic series that Gill made in and around the London Borough of Hackney over the past fourteen years. His processes include burying photographs, making exuberant flower collages, placing objects inside the camera so that their traces could be encapsulated within the film emulsion thus adding confusion of scale. Gill’s most recent series, entitled “Best Before End,” resulted from part processing negatives in energy drinks, bringing forth the most fantastic, abstract and vibrantly coloured works that somehow reflect the intensity of modern inner city life.
This exhibition opens at the Foam Gallery in Amsterdam May 17 and runs through July 14, 2013.
(Source: pdnphotooftheday.com)
The eruption of Pavlof volcano in the remote Aleutian Islands of Alaska began on 13 May 2013 and continues today with a show of lava fountaining and flows down the northwest flank. Pavlof erupts quite frequently. The last time it erupted was in 2013, and this eruption is the 6th this century. Steam and ash clouds occasionally rise to 20,000 ft above sea level. Ash could threaten low-lying aircraft, and the National Weather Service will issue appropriate warnings.
(Source: facebook.com)
Discovering the Fascinating Story of a Mother’s Life in 1960s Nigeria
One of the voids left behind in the digital age of photography is the excitement and mystery of picking up developed prints from a roll of film.
Imagine the thrillSenongo Akpemfelt when he and his family discovered a trove of slide film taken by their mother, Emily, during her work as a missionary and nurse in Nigeria during the 1960s and ’70s.
“I had no idea most of this stuff was there,” Akpem said about the images. “We knew this stuff was around, but I had no idea of the depth of it.”
A family friend in Nigeria collected the film and had it developed in the United States. Since then, Akpem has started to edit the film, scanning images and uploading them to a website he started calledLost Nigeria.
The images tell the story of his mother’s journey to Nigeria in the early 1960s, when she left her home in California to work as a missionary nurse at the Benue Leprosy Settlement. While there, she fell in love with a Nigerian reverend doctor and had three children—two daughters and a son, Senongo, the youngest born in 1979. The family moved back to the United States soon thereafter and lived between Michigan, California and Nigeria over the next decade.
Photos of Patterns and Repetition Spotted During Urban Exploration
Take a look at photographer Jared Lim‘s portfolio, and many of his photographs might look to you like they’re the product of liberal Photoshop Clones Stamp usage. They feature repeating shapes, colors, and patterns found in various cities’ urban environments.
Based in Singapore, Lim is an urban explorer — he calls himself a “wanderer” — and says he has always been drawn to geometry, lines, curves, patterns, and abstract designs.
Thus, architectural photography has been a natural fit for him ever since he picked up a camera. While traveling to different cities around the world for his travel industry job, Lim captures things that catch his eye in monochrome, in color, and on the street.
In an interview over on Chase Jarvis’ blog, Lim says he does minimal editing on his images:
I try to get my composition and lighting right during shooting so as to minimize the amount of post correction work. Post work mainly involves correction of lens distortion and perspective, because I am rather meticulous in my composition. I love strong colors and most of my work reflects that.
(Source: petapixel.com)
Electrifying Photos of Los Angeles, 1940-1990
Not far from Downtown Los Angeles, the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is the former home of American railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington, whose 500-acre estate and massive collection of 18th-century British portraiture became available to the public after his death in 1927. While the Huntington is definitely worth a visit in person, it’s also possible to check out a few of its resources online. Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin, 1940–1990 is a web-based exhibition presented by theHuntington-USC Institute on California and the West featuring a selection of 70,000 images from Southern California Edison, the company that supplies the majority of electricity to the LA area. As part of the Getty’s initiative, Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in LA, authors, scholars, and other experts have culled the Huntington’s massive archive documenting the region’s — quite literally — electrifying history.USC History professor and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West William Deverell is one of them. “I’ve been fascinated with the Edison archive since it arrived here,” he says of the collection, which the Edison International donated to the Huntington in 2006. “It’s such a gold mine of history — from the late 19th century to the late 20th century Edison had photographers out in the field documenting everything from the installation of telephone poles to various other electrical applications. Now we get to have some fun, dig more deeply, and look for what else is in these pictures — behind the telephone poles and switching stations. And there’s a lot there.”
See a few images documenting the increased illumination of Los Angeles below. Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin, 1940–1990 is viewable online through December 31, 2013.
(Source: flavorwire.com)
