Herman Leonard

Sometimes Euterpe appears as a veil of smoke or a cloud of incense, and sometimes she embraces her musician. The gallery begins here.

Dignitas personae in real life

You can always rely on the writer at mirabilis.ca to bring you the very best of the web. Today we have Duncan McNicholl's Perspectives of Poverty, a planned series of photos illustrating typical dishonest NGO-style photos of poor, raggedly-dressed rural Africans in the usual clouds of flies. Mr McNicholl wonders, "Do many organizations ask people how they want to be represented before the photographs start being taken?"

The City

This is what a City looks like: pictures of Prague by Libor Sváček.

Photos of Scott's Antarctic expedition

• BBC article
  
• Scott Polar Research Institute (Cambridge University)
  
• Freeze Frame - over 20,000 photos of British polar exploration from 1845 to 1960, including photos from Robert Scott's ill-fated 1910-1913 expedition
  
• On these pages, click the photos to enlarge:
  
• Captain Scott and group, April 13, 1911
  
• Happy Antarctic expeditions run on Heinz baked beans

Amanda and Josh

My cousin Mike's daughter Amanda got married just after Christmas in Tampa Bay - here are wedding photos from Missy Duncan of Tampa Bay, who does great work.

For you compulsive wedding-photo junkies, here's a slideshow of all 603 photos.