Frank W. Buckles celebrated his 110th birthday on February first. He died peacefully at his home on Sunday morning. Buckles was one of 4,734,992 Americans who served in World War I. With his death, there are no more surviving US veterans of that war.
Buckles, who served as a U.S. Army ambulance driver in Europe during what became known as the “Great War,” rose to the rank of corporal before the war ended. He came to prominence in recent years, in part because of the work of DeJonge, a Michigan portrait photographer who had undertaken a project to document the last surviving veterans of that war.
As the years continued, all but Buckles had passed away, leaving him the “last man standing” among U.S. troops who were called “The Doughboys.”
In recent years, Buckles became an advocate for a memorial in Washington to honor those who served in the “Great War”. Link, -Via: Fark, Via: Neatorama
Godspeed Mr. Buckles.
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Paul Nicklen describes his most amazing experience as a National Geographic photographer - coming face-to-face with one of Antarctica's most vicious predators. LINK: Youtube
Relentless Energy's Short Stories competition beings with 'The Dark Side Of The Lens', a short film from renowned surf photographer Mickey Smith. LINK: Youtube
"Floating Point" is a lovely time-lapse video by photographer Samuel Cockedey. By now the conventions of this type of video are pretty well established: The high perspective (usually urban), the moody music (usually electronic), the onrushing clouds, the streaming traffic. (Remember "The Sandpit"?) But Cockedey adds an element that a lot of others don't: A prominent credit line overlaying the bottom right corner of the video. It's his absolute right to safeguard his work in any manner he sees fit, of course. But the thing is so distracting that it ends up, for me at least, marring the experience. And it raises a question I can't immediately answer: When there's a clash between making a creative work and protecting its provenance, which one is more important? LINK, Via: Vimeo
Denis Smith is a photographer who makes light graffiti — time lapse photography that allows artists to insert lights into spaces so that they appear to be free-floating. Smith has created a set of images depicting the travels of a ball of light through a darkened world.
Link, Via: DudeCraft, Via: Neatorama
Paul Nicklen describes his most amazing experience as a National Geographic photographer - coming face-to-face with one of the arctic's most vicious predators. LINK: Youtube
Madeleine Calaido Weber is a Fine-Art Photographer, a Graphic Designer, and an Artist, whose passion for art and for life is the energy that carries her through every day. Her main inspiration and motivation lie in the many forms of beauty offered by Mother Nature, which she finds in abundance living in County Kerry, Ireland. She has amassed an impressive list of awards and publications already. LINK
Photographer Susan Anderson took a series of absolutely surreal portraits of young children participating in beauty pagents. She compiled the work in a book, High Glitz: The Extravagant World of Child Pageants. You can view many of the images on Anderson's site as well. From the powerHouse Books site: Via: Boingboing
High Glitz: The Extravagant World of Child Pageants
My view point is--This is SOOO wrong in so many levels....
Extreme sports photographer and Nikon Ambassador Mark Watson tells of the photographic adventure of a lifetime - capturing the spectacular Morning Glory cloud. Using a Nikon D300S + 10.5mm fisheye lens attached to the hang glider he provides an incredible angle of the mysterious formation. In an amazing feat, world record holding, Red Bull hang-glider Jonny Durand, has become the first man ever to perform aerobatics on the cloud above the remote wilderness of the Gulf Of Carpentaria. LINK, Via: Youtube
"Point and shoot: A red rose in liquid nitrogen explodes on contact with a bullet in one of Alan Sailer's dramatic high-speed photographs"
A photo shoot usually requires a photographer to just point a camera and snap - but U.S. artist Alan Sailer takes the process much more literally.
The California-based photographer, 54, has captured a series of otherwise unassuming items as they explode on contact with a bullet.
The dramatic results feature everything from flowers to fruit, as well as more unexpected items such as bacon and even snow globes.
An expert at high-speed photography, Mr Sailer takes the pictures in a dark room positioned around 20cm from the target. The camera, which features a unique home-made flash, is set at a one-second delay.
Mr Sailer, who describes the process as 'beyond dangerous, says: 'The special item is the flash. It is a home-built unit based on the design of Harold Edgerton*. The flash is about .5 microsecond in duration and runs at 17,000 volts. It is beyond dangerous, it's deadly.
'The flash is triggered when the pellet from a rifle travelling at about 200 metres per seconds passes through a laser beam. Its the same principle as those beams that set off a chime when you walk into a store,' he continues.
'The camera is set at one second and an f-stop of 9-13 depending on the reflectivity of the subject. The flash stops the action. The one second gives me time to click the camera shutter with one hand while I pull the trigger on the rifle with the other.' LINK
Patrick Hoelck didn't begin his career as a photographer. In fact, he refers to his primary occupation of the past six-and-a-half years as a "grateful accident." Hoelck began as a youngster in New York City working in the music video world during what he calls the "rap era."
Patrick Hoelck’s photography resonates because his darkness does not hide, pervert, destroy, or malign. Instead, it emboldens, signifies, nurtures, resurrects an individual for who they are: sexuality and celebrity status are consequential of being human—of being a man or woman, actor or actress, singer or musician, model or cult personality; glamour and attitude are consequential of one’s pride and self-respect. LINK
Dan Winters is a famous photographer who illuminates his subjects to reveal something most of us would often miss. You can read more about his work and his inspirations at the PDN Gallery website. LINK
"I call this a MIrror image in Life"
Sabrina Jung is a photographer who not only takes pictures of gorgeous landscapes, she also has that ability to transform a simple picture into a memorable experience. With enhanced colors, she shows us a world who's beauty is often taken for granted. By drawing our eyes to the sea and the skies, she reminds us that "art" is right outside our window.
Sabrina Jung was born in 1978 in Neuss, Germany. She has studied at Folkwang Hochschule in Essen and the College of Art & Design in Zurich. She is the founder of the art salon, Weisser and currently lives in Berlin. LINK
With a heightened sense of drama and foreshadowing, Turkish photographer Serhat Taykutgül takes us on a far and distant journey in these photographs. The bold landscapes he captures almost seem to tell a story of grave danger that is looming and about to arrive. In some of these shots, he even places a beautiful woman right in the middle of the chaos, making us question her fate. LINK
Michio Hoshino, a photographer known for his pictures of bears and other wildlife, was mauled to death by a brown bear on the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia. He was in his mid-40?s and lived in Fairbanks, Alaska. LINK
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