This time from BBC, and a look into the history of amazing sport photos.
About the top image:
“Bob Martin’s photograph is so beautifully composed, so structured, that it is only afterward the details come into focus,” writes Buckland. “This is the Paralympics. The rules of swimming are almost identical to the regular Olympics but no prostheses are permitted. Torres has left his legs behind.”
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160816-nearly-200-years-of-incredible-sporting-photos
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I just found these images in the Washington Post.
Sport is always a possibility for great shots. Look at these and you understand. The very first image is touring the world right now.
It would be great to have the opportunity once to cover an event this size. Color, speed, expression. It has everything. Happiness and sorrow, not to forget. And The Olympics is not over yet…
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Years ago I saw one of his exhibitions in Milan. Great images, also in size, and a great show! Now I certainly like to go to Rotterdam.
Peter Lindbergh: A Different Vision on Fashion Photography is at the Kunsthal Rotterdam from 10 September 2016-12 February 2017 (kunsthal.nl)
“He has such strong themes. You can immediately say, ‘That’s a Lindbergh image’ because of the timelessness of the portraits, without make-up, without hair. They never date.”
Lindbergh does what he does. And as long as you don’t try to retouch what he does, he is happy.
Magazines have to sign a contract agreeing not to do any retouching, otherwise, he says, it happens. “The cosmetic companies have everyone brainwashed. I don’t retouch anything. ‘Oh, but she looks tired!’ they say. So what if she looks tired? Tired and beautiful.”
There is more interesting things to read in the article. I found it in The Guardian.
(The above image was cropped by the Word Press app.)
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I am not much of a drone man myself, but well handeled you can make wunderful images with them. Like these.
The winners of this year’s aerial photography competition run by online site Dronestagram have been announced.
The winning pictures taken using drone cameras were selected from thousands of entries by the judges, including National Geographic Deputy Director Patrick Witty and Emanuela Ascoli, photo editor of National Geographic, France.
Todd Kennedy was on his honeymoon when he took this drone shot of Cable Beach, Western Australia. He said: “When we arrived in Broome, we booked a sunset camel tour which was a beautiful experience and a great opportunity to get a new addition to a series of shadow images I have been collecting since entering into drone photography.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-36733401
Read about it in BBC.
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I just read that the photographer Fan Ho has passed away at the age of 85. I did n´t know about him but I like to share what I just learned with you. His work is fantastic! It is not difficult to understand that he was called the Bresson of the East. I first learned about him in an article in http://www.dpreview.com. The top link. The second link is to his homepage. Really colorful w/w images. It really shows that good photography has no age. It is timeless.
Please excuse my little joke in the headline, but I had never heard of him before.
Images © Fan Ho
http://www.dpreview.com/news/6315115603/remembering-fan-ho-1937-2016/1
http://www.fanhophotography.com/index.html
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Last Sunday was the long awaited grand opening of Bro Park. The new race horse track in the Stockholm area. The weather was fine and so the spectators. Many dressed up for the occasion and the competition for the best dress, and hat of course. All as it should be on a day like this in this sport. After going through about 32 GB of images I have come up with this small selection. As always I am walking around in my own little world of details, color and speed. Just as the jockeys I am now looking forward to learning the new track. Different corners and where and when the light is best here, and there.
Note: The happiest winner was an American, Chantal, with her arms up in the sky. The Swedes just won without visual signs. But with a smile afterwards, of course.
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I am in the need of a sauna just coming back from a cold day at the race track! So how do the jockeys feel when they are coming in from a long day on the horse back? Many horse backs that is, since they ride so many different horses during a race day. The weather was testing us, how much we could stand.
Not many races left at the old track now. The 18th next month is the final day. As always there is a new page to be turned and to experience. That will be interesting. Here is the selection of images frpm today. Enjoy! 😀
By the way, are there saunas for horses!
After just returning home from 10 days in Kenya, these images are very sad to see. But they are also very beautiful. But of course it would be more beautiful if the animals could be seen in these places live. See and read more on BBC.
Nick Brandt built lifesized panels depicting Africa’s great creatures and placed them in scenes where they used to roam. The resulting photographs serve as a potent reminder of what poaching and climate change put at stake. © Nick Brandt.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/apr/05/nick-brandt-inherit-the-dust-africa
Yes, this really is on my mind. How do you look upon yourself? During a recent all day portrait photography session I was reminded of this. Again. The picture you see of yourself in a mirror and the Image from a camera are NOT the same to us. Like when you hear a recording of your voice. It is not the way you hear it. What I am getting at is this. For some this image I, as a photographer, am trying to create is important, and for some not so much. Some see nothing but their faults and some does not care. They don´t see it that way. Interesting, don´t you think? Not that, absolutely NOT that, perhaps I can live with that, they say. Others go, your choice. It is OK with me, that´s how I look.
I have been photographing portraits for this agency for some time and I have arranged so that there is always time to talk to everyone that is to be photographed. We got time to re shoot, and re shoot again. We talk and agree upon images that are OK and that they agree upon to be used. How does the light fall upon them? What side is best? If there is such a thing? I always try to explain when this is complicated for a person what I see. Most often I don´t see it the way they do. But I do understand and respect them. It has happened that they bring a friend to help choose an image, and that is great. A person who they trust and listen to. Great idea! For me this is an exciting and interesting job. We have a long list of persons to be photographed so we don´t have “all day” for a portrait, but talking and listening makes a great difference. As with everything else in life. We are using a small studio in the agency and we have to use a backdrop. White or black. That is not adding to personality. Persons are put in the center of attention as, perhaps, never before. The spotlight is on them and they stand in the very center. The camera notice everything. On the outside that is. Scary! The camera and image is powerful.
Nowadays we don´t go to the studio photographer for portraits as before. My family did this. One image of me was put in the shopping window of the studio, and we got a print for thanks. I still got it here in the studio with me. A bit faded. You can see it at the top.
I wish I could name the photographer of my portrait, but I am sorry I can´t. No information was added to the print, and unfortunately I don´t remember.
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On a photographers mind 