Tree Emerging From Morning Fog. Mission Peak. July 1, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell (Sales).
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Ridgetop Oak Tree (monochrome), Calero Hills
Ridgetop Oak Tree (monochrome). Calero Hills, California. March 18, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
This noble, though slightly tipsy, old oak lives on the top of a ridge I like to visit in the Calero Hills (Calero Park) south of San Jose, California.
Cruelty and Pain, Seen in an Unblinking Lens
New York Times review of the photography of James Nachtwey:
In two new exhibits, photographer James Nachtwey documents the consequences of war and disease. By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN. [NYT > Home Page]
From the article:
Is this how these men would wish to be remembered? Are the pictures an invasion of privacy?
That was the Bush administration’s excuse for prohibiting photographs of returning coffins. But then there’s the argument made at the opening of the show at 401 by a ex-marine who lost his right arm in Iraq. (He was among a number of veterans who stopped by the gallery, a nonprofit space devoted to this sort of exceptional photographic projects, to pay tribute to Mr. Nachtwey.) The marine said he thought these pictures should be on billboards in Times Square so that everybody would know what’s really happening over there, and nobody could miss seeing them.
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The Pentax 70mm f/2.4 DA lens
Carl Weese at The Online Photographer just posted a piece on the Pentax 70mm f/2.4 DA lens that reminds me why a) I really want companies other than just Canon and Nikon to thrive and flourish in the DSLR market, b) equipment doesn’t have to look the way we expect it to look to be good, and c) Pentax is still a cool company.
Worth a read.
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