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fastcompany: We all love sharing our beautiful and fun pictures...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:56:26 -0400

We all love sharing our beautiful and fun pictures on Instagram, but is there a “right” way to use Instagram for your business? Here are 5 handy tips on using Instagram to make your brand stand apart.

Pictured above: Kevin Systrom, Founder of Instagram, Instagramming at our #MCP11 event. Pic via @CiaEATS

The Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec 2011, a slideshow of the cull

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:13:00 -0400

Good stuff from JUST north of the border:

If you haven’t been north to the french speaking cities of Quebec and Montreal you are missing a whole host of things to see and piles more to do. Now, if 400+ years of history weren’t enough, the Pro-Cycling circuit has two stops scheduled and they are ALL the reason you need to track down your passport and head up.

This year’s edition of the Grand Prix Cycliste had the added drama of a late season run to be the king of the season long pro cycling points race. Phillipe Gilbert of Belgium came to Quebec needing just a few few points to take the lead from Tour de France winner Cadel Evans who had announced that he was done for the season.

A peleton of more than 170 riders tackled a tough course that winds through the lush park-lands of the Plains of Abraham, shoots down to the St. Lawrence for a long flat and then tackles two grueling climbs up to the iconic Chateau Frontenac. While an early three man break managed to take a lead of as much as five minutes on the main pack the brash break was quickly reeled in within a few laps of the end of the race.

With less than 20km go a more start studded break of 10 formed including a number of the sports big stars, American Levi Leipheimer found himself up front with Dutchman Robert Gesink but also with this year’s one day star Phillipe Gilbert. The crux of the race came on the last major climb as Gilbert dropped the group in emphatic style, while Gesink was able to separate himself from the chase group he was unable to regain contact with Gilbert and the powerful Belgian swept to his 18th victory of the year.

This is a great event, worth every second of the drive. We certainly intend to cover the event next year, but, having said that…don’t take a photographer’s word for it, start planning for next year

Hmmm…I have an M2 sitting right next to me…but you...

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:36:36 -0400

Hmmm…I have an M2 sitting right next to me…but you can’t have it.

The Tea Party Express comes to Maine, most of them had never...

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:52:00 -0400

The Tea Party Express comes to Maine, most of them had never been to Maine and they admitted it. Sharon Angle came with her own vehicle, she was quick to point out it is called,The TEAm Hobbit Express…and yes, she wanted me to know the TEA are capitalized,

life: On Aug. 23, 1966, humanity welcomed its first view of...

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:42:51 -0400

life:

On Aug. 23, 1966, humanity welcomed its first view of Earth taken by a spacecraft from the vicinity of the Moon. The photo was transmitted to Earth by NASA’s unmanned Lunar Orbiter I — a robotic surveyor sent into orbit to map possible lunar landing sites years before the Apollo program — and was received at a NASA tracking station near Madrid, Spain. In celebration of the 45th anniversary of the landmark transmission, LIFE.com presents other remarkable, moving, humbling photos of our lonely blue and green planet taken from the depths of space.

Out of this world, literally: Earth Seen From Space

The back story for this makes it all that much...

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:10:02 -0400

The back story for this makes it all that much better.

latimes:

Nov. 19, 1946: Early morning view of scores of jackrabbits watching activities at Los Angeles Municipal Airport, slated to open to major airlines about three weeks later. Heartily recommend clicking through to get the scope of the image.

Photo credit: Art Rogers / Los Angeles Times

keithwj: Cuba TV - Photographs by Simone Lueck, via boingboing

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:11:38 -0400

keithwj:

Cuba TV - Photographs by Simone Lueck, via boingboing

wnyc: Remember when the Strand had no AC but you went anyway...

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:53:20 -0400

wnyc:

Remember when the Strand had no AC but you went anyway and after sweating it out in “mass market paperbacks” and “Americana” for an hour it seemed so much cooler when you stepped back out onto Broadway plus you had an armful of new-to-you books so who cared how hot it was? —A.P.

kenpooley: Carny-mania! (Taken with Instagram at Yarmouth Clam...

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:01:43 -0400

kenpooley:

Carny-mania! (Taken with Instagram at Yarmouth Clam Festival)

My guess is this is the product of tumblr’s new...

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:00:48 -0400

My guess is this is the product of tumblr’s new photo-collections, I just wished I had read the directions last week so I could do this.

staff: Clark went on a harrowing bulldog walk last weekend that...

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:59:38 -0400

Showing us the way home

staff:

Clark went on a harrowing bulldog walk last weekend that lasted nearly 30 minutes and spanned fifteen blocks!

Some moments deserve more than one angle. That’s why we’re ecstatic to give Photosets a huge upgrade today, giving you new levels of control to tell your stories the way you want to.

1) Photoset photos now open in all their high-res glory on the Dashboard and on your blog.

2) You can now pick a layout for your photos to tell the right story.

3) Tumblr Themes can now make Photosets look and work any way you please with a host of new theme variables:
{block:Photoset}
    
    {PhotoCount}
    
    
    {PhotosetLayout}
    
    
    {JSPhotosetLayout}
    
    
    {block:Photos}
        {PhotoURL-500}
        
        {block:HighRes}
            {PhotoURL-HighRes}
        {/block:HighRes}
        
        {Caption}
        
        {block:Exif} ... {/block:Exif}
    {/block:Photos}
{/block:Photoset}
Enjoy!

kenpooley: How cool is this? (Taken with instagram) So this...

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:09:12 -0400

kenpooley:

How cool is this? (Taken with instagram)

So this comes from the light meter app on my phone, at some point an update started letting me log each shot, making up for the shot diary I don’t keep up with. I still wonder how accurate the app is but I guess if I work with my scary geek side I could shoot a test roll of gray cards and compare….maybe, sometime.

It does seem weird that most of the shots I logged say they are close to a cemetery, there are other things in Tennessee.

My phone is more and more magic everyday…

This is beyond painful, I would offer them a real, honest to god...

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:46:07 -0400

This is beyond painful, I would offer them a real, honest to god Maine Lobster ashtray as a trade, but I am not sure how I would get the cigar bits out of a 5D…can you imagine what Canon service would say if you sent THIS in?

laughingsquid:

How the Uber-Rich in China Use the Canon 5D Mark II

I am going to do the same thing on Cousins Island with rocks,...

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:18:38 -0400

I am going to do the same thing on Cousins Island with rocks, seaweed and seagulls….ok, maybe not till the water warms up a little bit more.

spotblogger:

Mesmerizing: a massive-scale drawing by Jim Denevan in the sand on a California beach. More to see here.

newsflick: City Bound: Under a rainy-season sky, migrants take...

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:15:22 -0400

newsflick:

City Bound: Under a rainy-season sky, migrants take the train back to Dhaka after visiting their home villages north of the capital. On either side are rice fields, healthy here but tainted by salinity farther south. (Jonas Bendiksen)

kenpooley: Have not seen the sun in days, going with the gray. ...

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:09:52 -0400

kenpooley:

Have not seen the sun in days, going with the gray. (Taken with Instagram at Cousins Island)

I love shooting in and around Moab. On one hand I could spend...

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:08:07 -0400

I love shooting in and around Moab. On one hand I could spend three lifetimes there, on the other hand I always worry that I would eventually become numb to the amount of amazing there is to see…but I wouldn’t mind the chance to risk that.

nationalgeographicdaily:

Tree, Arches National Park

Photograph by Bill Keaton

Was photographing one of the arches in Arches National Park when this tree caught my eye. It was an overcast evening, and I set up and waited for a break in the clouds for a few rays of sun.

Is it a ‘great’ photo? No. But we put up with March...

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:30:32 -0400

Is it a ‘great’ photo? No. But we put up with March in the hope of one day like this.

kenpooley: June baseball, in the rain, in the bubble. (Taken...

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:02:05 -0400

kenpooley:

June baseball, in the rain, in the bubble. (Taken with instagram)

So I am a different kind of sucker for this, this is yet another...

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:42:52 -0400

So I am a different kind of sucker for this, this is yet another amazing presentation from the New York Times.

The image included is from the same photographer and series, but not from the article.

These are amazing images. They hold up in every way to the classic critical narratives of large format black and white photography. The catch, as beautiful as they are, is that they are digital from start to finish. I know the rest of the world is done with film, but I thought there were still holdouts, still things digital could not quite do—- now I am not so sure