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If you’ve never seen a reflection rainbow, take a look at this amazing shot by an amateur photographer, which was published in the Telegraph today.
Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category
November 24th, 2010
When I was first getting involved in federal policy, a mutual friend arranged a breakfast for me with Michael Deaver. In a short length of time he conveyed some lessons about Washington that have been very valuable to me, one of which is that the image is (almost) everything when a politician is speaking. There [...]
May 5th, 2009
I suggested in last week’s post on the dumb fly-over of New York Harbor that the desired photo, and lots like it, could be better made on a computer than with actual airplanes burning thousands of pounds of fossil fuel. And indeed, Will Sherman provides these nice examples of AF1 in various places including one [...]
February 17th, 2008
Category: Photography, Urbanism
This morning the NYT woke me up with a story about a building a block from where I grew up, that I passed every day of high school on my way to the subway. I had always found the building itself striking and a little scary, and too small for the claims of its design. [...]
December 15th, 2006
Category: Photography
Norman Koren is an engineer who has put up the most useful and engaging website for digital photographers I’ve ever seen. He’s a fine nature photographer, with lots of his stuff posted (along with Maxwell’s equations), but the real treasure here is the tutorials section, which has well-written, informed, nicely illustrated explanations and how-tos for [...]
