May 11, 2013
May 9, 2013
Alvaro Sanchez-Montanes - Indoor Desert (2010)
“By the end of World War I, diamond mines in Kolmanskuppe, a site in the Namib Desert, ceased to be exploited. For over two decades it had been one of the wealthiest settlements in Southern Africa. During that time of splendour, German colonists who run the site had built their peculiar residences there evoking the architecture and décor of those in their homeland Bavaria. After it was closed down and its inhabitants left, Kolmanskuppe became a ghost town engulfed by desert sands. With his series Indoor Desert, Sanchez-Montanes enters these houses abandoned to the desert to unveil the serene enchantment that dwells in their chambers.”
I desperately want to see a movie set here where people are trying to live their lives in these houses while slowly drowning in sand. It would be remarkably pretentious and win obscure awards and in the end I wouldn’t understand it, but that’s okay.
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May 4, 2013
My zoom lens doesn’t have a stabilizer on it, and my optics need to be cleansed… However, I wasn’t there to film wildlife, but I kept seeing this pair of hawks dance together in flight and managed to catch one.
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April 10, 2013
In Bloom at Last: D.C.’s Cherry Blossoms Have Arrived and They Were So Worth the Wait.
See the whole gallery of photos here: http://j.mp/17rhVmY
Photos by Caroline Lacey
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April 8, 2013
March 29, 2013
Smeared Skies by Matt Molloy
Matt busted out into the art scene with his smeared sky photos. Stacking 100 to 200 photos into one, he gave a new way to enjoy the view above us.
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March 19, 2013
My niece from quite a few years ago at my Dad’s birthday party. (top)
…and Easter a few months later …
These are my two favourite photos of her at that age that I shot (Canons rock). She has a tendency, when she sees a camera, to stop and start posing, so catching her candidly is incredibly difficult, but she’s so animated that, when you do catch her, it’s gold.
Also, these two are reversed on which you think would have been the candid and which wasn’t. The cake photo was posed, the Easter one was not.
She’s 10 today and the reverse of me, as far as school. She doesn’t do reading and writing very well (she has a palsy condition with her eyes that is very rare), but loves science and math. (I did well in science and math, but am much better at reading / writing / history.)
Trying to encourage my sister to actively seek out a woman that is an engineer that can mentor her - start now. I would very much like for my niece to be one of those women that kicks ass in science, because she’s got that kind of a brain. She’s buit that way, geared that way. She helps her dad all the time, loves her tool box as much or more than her nail polish box and just wants to know how everything works… including the car. Bright doesn’t even beging to describe it. Nor does curious. She’s just a sponge of light and questions that will exhaust you, but you answer them, because you don’t want to discourage her.
She’s amazing. Trying to brace myself for the onslaught of hormones that are just beginning, but amazing. And precious. And light.
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