Lovely photographs

Surfing around today, I found some gorgeous photos that inspired me, and felt new. I’ve been poking around flickr for a while now, and sometimes things feel a bit… same-y. Including, perhaps especially, my own work. But today was positively vibrant! Here are things I feel stood out.

First off, some beautiful pictures by Sam Lamb:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/samanthalamb/278415991/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/samanthalamb/277262112/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/samanthalamb/117368540/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/samanthalamb/282931440/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/samanthalamb/292581463/
In her most recent pictures, she has a “look” all her own, something I can’t put my finger on. Right when I think I’ve got it I’m wrong - when I think it all looks kind of modernly sepia, I notice these wonderful frosty blues. Very romantic, whimsical, wholesome, everything lit by an alien fairy light. I wish I knew what kind of camera she used. Not that the camera gets you into the neighborhood.

A new technique I would like to try: TtV. I’ve been playing around with shooting vignettes and things through found telescopes, but this is gorgeous. I’ve also become attracted to the possibilities of shooting with a Holga, but this looks even more intriguing.


plus Mr. E’s great set here, the first one I saw here, and others I couldn’t display thumbnails of here here and here.

There’s a delightful new group I’ve been playing with called Guess What I shot, where people post macros of mystery objects and everyone else tries to guess them.
For instance, this:

is salt. Gorgeous!
Unfortunately, while my lovely point & shoot does take reasonably macro macros, it doesn’t get near tiny enough to render a thing unrecognizable, so I’ve quite a challenge the next two nights to try to shoot something more clever.

And one photographer who I found a bit ago but who still delights me:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/msjanehudson/
Because of her creative use of tagging as alternate commentary, and because of the way she sees and describes things. Bold, vibrant, inquisitive, strong. I like her.
her
her trespasses
who she meets