Buddhas - a set on Flickr

Buddhas - a set on Flickr
I just posted some Buddha images to Flickr, www.justbuddhas.org, and Facebook. I am playing around using Nik software with Lightroom, it is amazing.

lens culture: Laura Domela

lens culture: Laura Domela

Everyone My Brother Knows in Girdwood, Alaska

Check out this series of portraits...........

Don Wright for Governor

House on Chena River

Jit's Father

On the Riverboat Discovery

South Cushman Area

C&J Drive-Inn

Went around South Cushman today taking photographs, I do have a documentary agenda, expressing the everyday experience of Fairbanks, or at least my experience of Fairbanks. The light is very stark, great for desolate and abandoned buildings.

Street Photography Techniques « NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPHER’S BLOG

Street Photography Techniques « NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPHER’S BLOG
An amazingly detailed and accurate description of street photography technique!

B: Shoot first, ask questions later

B: Shoot first, ask questions later

Excellent photographs and excellent ideas. The relationship between projects or ideas and actual photographs is complex and intricate.

» Famous Photos - Famous Photo - World’s famous photos

» Famous Photos - Famous Photo - World’s famous photos
This is an interesting web site, it is worth subscribing to.

Dennis Villegas

Dennis Villegas
An excellent, interesting, and deep web log. Worth subscribing to.......

Bird a Thon and Green Houses

Yesterday I spent the day with an Alaskan Bird Observatory Bird a Thon. We left at 7:00 in the morning and went to excellent bird watching locations in the Fairbanks area. The people I was with were avid bird identifiers, I mostly was there to take photographs of what I saw and to learn new locations to explore in Fairbanks. We returned at 5:00 in the evening. The group identified 58 distinct birds.

Today we went looking at green houses. Next weekend is the traditional safe planting day. Jit's father will be here and I hope he will enjoy the radically different gardening experience. I sort of hate gardening, but I think Jit and her Dad will have fun.

Captured Photo Collection » View From Above - The Earth from Space, courtesy of NASA Photos

Captured Photo Collection » View From Above - The Earth from Space, courtesy of NASA Photos

More amazing photographs, that we take for granted!

Thierry Legault - Transit of Atlantis and Hubble in front of the Sun

Thierry Legault - Transit of Atlantis and Hubble in front of the Sun

An amazing photograph, sometimes I forget what is really happening, I take amazing events for granted.

I wonder if it is true.......

As you might have guessed I spent the day wandering around and taking photographs. Fun!

Reflection in the Sink

Clouds by our house!

I love summer clouds!

Barbed Wire Santa North Pole Alaska

Jit's Father

Jit's Father will be visiting us this summer. He will be arriving May 18th.

Detroit: The Troubled City | Magnum In Motion

Detroit: The Troubled City | Magnum In Motion

An intense photo essay!

Thai Restaurants Fairbanks Alaska 2009: Stephen Cysewski

Thai Restaurants Fairbanks Alaska 2009: Stephen Cysewski

This is an update of a series that I posted in 2005. I have two more to add to finish the series for 2009.

Spring Street Shadows

I love the street shadows of the birches before they leaf out.

May 1, 2009 ~ Sister Cyril | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly

May 1, 2009 ~ Sister Cyril | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly

The way it should be!

"We have a dramatic example today of what one dedicated person can do to change the lives of people in need. Fred de Sam Lazaro revisits a story he reported 10 years ago about an Irish Catholic nun who is a school principal in Calcutta, India. Her name is Sister Cyril Mooney."

Experiment with Facebook

I am testing to see if this post will appear on my Facebook Status Page.

50 Strange Buildings of the World | Village Of Joy

50 Strange Buildings of the World | Village Of Joy
I love web sites like this.......

Fairbanks Pink Taxi?

A Really Dumb Person!

Dumb Person Survived

Dumb Person Friends, Notice Wet Pants

Use Google Reader to gather information on the web!!!!!

If you are not using Google Reader to gather information on the web you are crazy! Maybe that is a little extreme, but I believe it. I have over 200 RSS feeds that I subscribe to.

2009 Formula One season, wet & dry - The Big Picture - Boston.com

2009 Formula One season, wet & dry - The Big Picture - Boston.com

I love Formula 1 and I love photography. I will wake up at 3:00 AM to watch a Formula 1 race. There photographs, like all the photographs from "The Big Picture" are amazing.

Amazing Before and Current Photographs of Glaciers Melting!

Melting Ice: Glaciers and Ice Shelves

I have seen these changes in Alaska. I remember in the early seventies walking across the lake to the face of Portage Glacier, a really dumb, but amazing experience. Now the Glacier is not even in the lake anymore.

An End to Suffering: The Buddha In The World and Bihar.

I am reading this book for the second time, I read it years ago and remembered it on our India trip. Part of the book covers the same area that we experienced. It is much different reading a book when you have experiences in the same area. If you have any serious interest in Buddha I can recommend the book. The Amazon Link is here.

In describing Bihar Pankaj Mishra states: "One of the most volatile places was Bihar, once part of the kingdom of Magadha, the first great Indian empire. In this poor and densely poplulated Indian state, where rich landowners travelled in private planes while a caste of rat eaters starved to death due to a shortage of field mice, brutality seemed a casual everyday affair. The stories came in from every direction. Private armies of upper-caste landowners massacred low-caste landless peasants. Communist activists retaliated with massacres of upper-caste families. Doctors going on strike pulled out transfusion tubes from the veins of their patients."

Set a Google alert for Bihar and look at the accumulated results!

The Best Photographers Are Troublemakers | Black Star Rising

The Best Photographers Are Troublemakers | Black Star Rising

I know this is not true! I am a nice, easy to get along with and flexible person!:) Sigh. I must not be a good photographer:(

Today Really Is Spring!

I raked the lawn, discovered many remnants of winter, put up the picnic table in the side yard, opened the windows and doors, and did not wear a coat in the afternoon.

I still can not open the shed to get the summer tires, there is ice around the door, but I removed the snow so it would melt faster.

This morning I walked through an old part of town, Samson Hardware area, that will be destroyed this summer for a new road. I did some photography. In the afternoon I walked around our neighborhood taking photographs.

I have had a tooth ache for the last four days and will try to get a dentist appointment tomorrow. I woke up at 3:00 to watch the Bahrain GP. A good normal early spring day. It feels good to feel the warmth.

Yesterday was the last day that I teach for my class this semester. Next Saturday the students will present their portfolios. Here is the link to the class content. I will revise it this week so it will be ready for the class next fall. There are many excellent links that will be interesting for anybody who wants to explore photography.

http://www.cysewski.com/digitalphotography/c258091/091CIOS258LessonHandouts.htm

Thousands of People Take Photos Every Day. What If One of Them Seems Odd?

London Metropolitan Police Anti-Photography Propaganda Campaign Poster

It is important to protect our right to take photographs in public places, to know the rights and limitations of public photography, and to protect those rights by using them!

See the following article for a clear discussion of the right to photograph in the United States. Other countries have different rules and different cultural tolerance for photography.

http://photocritic.org/photography-rights-vs-respect/

http://photocritic.org/street-photography-and-the-law/

First Rain Since October!

We are having the first rain that I have experienced since last October. Once snow starts we rarely ever go back to rain and while we were in India and Thailand there was not rain. Today we have light rain.

AKZ222-240345-
MIDDLE TANANA VALLEY-
INCLUDING...FAIRBANKS...FORT WAINWRIGHT...EIELSON AFB...ESTER...
NORTH POLE...MOOSE CREEK...TWO RIVERS...FOX...CHATANIKA...
CHENA HOT SPRINGS...SOURDOUGH CAMP
336 PM AKDT THU APR 23 2009
.NOW...

LIGHT RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE MIDDLE TANANA VALLEY
THIS AFTERNOON. RAIN IS CHANGING TO SNOW AROUND 1200 FEET. SNOW
ACCUMULATIONS OF UP TO A HALF INCH ARE POSSIBLE AT ELEVATIONS
ABOVE 1200 FEET THROUGH 6PM.

Organizing Mania

I have two large easel pads on my couch, on one I am organizing my photo tasks for this summer, I did the same thing last year. My categories are Fairbanks Photography, Alaska Photography, Anchorage Photography, Web Sites, Alaska Trips, Flickr/Picasa Groups, Publishing and Printing, Scanning, Dark Room work, Studying, and Other Stuff. On my other easel pad I have household and home tasks. My categories are: Home Tasks, Car Tasks, Yard Tasks, Long-Term Tasks, Purchases, and Health.

Over time I add new things to my task pads. Eventually, when it is written down it gets done. I find using large easel pads makes it easier for me to think! I did the same thing at work. Putting on the computer somehow does not work as well for me, I must be old!

Dennis Dunleavy: The intended and unintended consequences of photography

Dennis Dunleavy: The intended and unintended consequences of photography

I just ordered the reference book: "One of the most influential books on photography and society has to be Halla Beloff's "Camera Culture." Written in 1985, Beloff takes a sociological perspective on the use of the camera as well as its intentions and influence on society. "

m97 Gallery - SUN Ji | 孙骥

m97 Gallery - SUN Ji | 孙骥

"All these photos are about the familiar Shanghai in my memory. When I was still a child, these types of old factories and buildings were everywhere, alive and full of vigor. However, what I used to be so familiar with has literally disappeared in front of my eyes."

Just a few photographs, but I could look at them for hours.

newsminer.com • Dead dogs

newsminer.com • Dead dogs
The letter to the editor, and the comments, express the Fairbanks community.

newsminer.com • Blondie’s lost

newsminer.com • Blondie’s lost

Last winter Dan, the creator of Blondie's, was murdered. I have many photographs of his "store" in my Wandering In Fairbanks web site. He characterized Fairbanks to me. This letter expresses the loss that we all feel.

From Gaffney PhotoWalk

From Gaffney PhotoWalk

Submit Your Images to Online Photography Magazines - Professional Photography

Submit Your Images to Online Photography Magazines - Professional Photography

Check out these online photography magazines (web sites). There are some excellent photographs on these web sites and you can subscribe to them using RSS feeds. Some of the most interesting photographs on the web!

B: Snippet

B: Snippet

Cool photograph and cool conversation, it reminded me of the kind of conversations that I inflicted on Elizabeth and Margaret. It made me smile.

Captured » Blog Archive » Pulitzers Announced; Patrick Farrell’s Images of Haiti

Captured » Blog Archive » Pulitzers Announced; Patrick Farrell’s Images of Haiti
Excruciatingly Powerful! Do not look at this unless you want to be moved!

Creamers Field April 2009

Saturday I took my photography class for a photo walk to Creamers Field. My photographs from that walk are on Picasa Web Albums. You can see clusters of photographs where I found something that was interesting. I especially liked the patterns of shadows on the snow and also the patterns of melting snow. The sets of similar photographs are to show the students how I "work" a scene. For the web site I will create for Wandering in Fairbanks 2009 I might choice 5 or 10 of these photographs.

I got this email just now, it is amazing that we did not run into each other when we were photographing. The serendipity of sharing on the Internet is a constant source of amazement.

"I’ve just been enjoying the photos you posted on Downtown Seattle, Pike Place Market and Pioneer Square. Awesome photos!! I posted some I took in 1978 that I just thought I’d share:

http://picasaweb.google.com/treeclimber4/DowntownSeattle1978# "

Jana

To see my original photographs look here. www.wanderinginseattle.com

Land Of A Thousand Struggles - People's struggles for employment and livelihood in rural India - a set on Flickr

Land Of A Thousand Struggles - People's struggles for employment and livelihood in rural India - a set on Flickr

A good set of photographs. Captures some of the experience of India.

Kids Playing in Puddles and America's Cultures Week Potluck

Last night we went to the 28th Annual America's Cultures Week Potluck Celebration. The food was excellent, I ate Jamaican, Mexican, Fruit Salad, and Ice Cream. When I worked for Indian Education, many years ago, I would bring Twinkies and Wonder bread, sort of American cultural food!

One of Jit's students did a Thai dance. It was excellent. I think, in Thailand, that the girls all must spend a long time learning Thai dance. This Sunday there will be a Songkran celebration and some Monks for Anchorage will also be coming. It should be fun. I know there will be meditation, Thai dancing, Thai food, and chanting. I must be psychic!

As I looked out the window I saw three kids playing in the large melt water puddle, spring really is here!

George Georgiou

George Georgiou: Happy is he who calls himself a Turk
An excellent series of photographs.

"Turkey is a strategically important nation, poised geographically and symbolically between Europe and Asia. But the tensions at the heart of Turkey are becoming increasingly severe. A fierce struggle is taking place between modernity and tradition, secularism and Islamism, democracy and repression—often in unlikely and contradictory combinations. Usually these tensions focus almost exclusively on Istanbul, the Kurdish issue, or religion, ignoring the far deeper complexities of a large country searching for a modern identity."

From the introduction to the series. George Georgio

newsminer.com • Birding Report — Geese, raptors trickle in as spring migration begins

newsminer.com • Birding Report — Geese, raptors trickle in as spring migration begins

One of the joys of spring is watching the birds return. The News Miner a good description of the birds arrival. Spring really is a miracle up here. During the day the clouds are starting to build, soon we will have afternoon rain storms over the hills.