Today we run from the simple to the sublime.

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day

Welcome to the 2nd annual Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day exhibition, where you will discover 231 images realized by as many different pinhole photographers from 25 countries!

All the photographs in this extraordinary collection share two common characteristics:

they are lensless photographs.
they were made on April 28, 2002.
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The image above is James Luckett's at consumptive.org I will be submitting something next year since I will be making a pinhole for my Mamiya Universal.

I ran my first film through the Mamiya today — just some test shots. Actually cocking shutters and advancing, film which felt pretty good. I also did a shot of star trails from my porch. It's nice to have a manual camera again.

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Hubble's Advanced Camera Unveils a Panoramic New View of the Universe

Jubilant astronomers unveiled humankind's most spectacular views of the universe, courtesy of the newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Among the suite of four ACS photographs to demonstrate the camera's capabilities is a stunning view of a colliding galaxy dubbed the "Tadpole" (UGC10214). Set against a rich tapestry of 6,000 galaxies, the Tadpole, with its long tail of stars, looks like a runaway pinwheel firework. Another picture depicts a spectacular collision between two spiral galaxies -- dubbed "The Mice" -- that presages what may happen to our own Milky Way several billion years from now when it collides with the neighboring galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. Looking closer to home, ACS imaged the "Cone Nebula," a craggy-looking mountaintop of cold gas and dust that is a cousin to Hubble's iconic "pillars of creation" in the Eagle Nebula, photographed in 1995. Peering into a celestial maternity ward called the Omega Nebula or M17, ACS revealed a watercolor fantasy-world of glowing gases, where stars and perhaps embryonic planetary systems are forming.
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Photographs From the Golden Age of Jazz

The William P. Gottlieb Collection, comprising over sixteen hundred photographs of celebrated jazz artists, documents the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C. In 1938 Gottlieb began working for the Washington Post, where he wrote and illustrated a weekly jazz column--perhaps the first in a major newspaper. After World War II he was employed as a writer-photographer for Down Beat magazine, and his work also appeared frequently in Record Changer, the Saturday Review, and Collier's. During the course of his career, Gottlieb took portraits of prominent jazz musicians and personalities, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Thelonious Monk, Stan Kenton, Ray McKinley, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Ella Fitzgerald, and Benny Carter. This online collection presents Gottlieb's photographs, annotated contact prints, selected published prints, and related articles from Down Beat magazine.

While most of the photographs are b&w, aparently taken with a twin-lens reflex, there are a few big 4x5 inch transparencies. They're georgeous.

thanks to plep

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PLACES OF PEACE AND POWER
The Sacred Site Pilgrimages of Martin Gray

Martin Gray is an anthropologist and photographer specializing in the study of sacred sites and pilgrimage traditions around the world. During the past eighteen years, Martin has visited and photographed over 1000 sacred sites in eighty countries.

This web site discusses Martin's pilgrimage journeys, features many of his photographs and writings, lists calendar details of upcoming slide shows, gives information regarding book and photograph orders, and has links to related sites.
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thanks to abuddhas memes