Some mad Photoshop skills for your summer amusement

Photographer Dave Hill takes you through his composite layers in Photoshop to create this 3-D video. Amazing stuff, and an interesting way to understand layers. Look out next year's Photography class!

Adventure Series - Exposed from Dave Hill on Vimeo.

Nora School Photography Festival

Wow! Almost 400 photographs entered this year, with 236 selected to be shown this Saturday night. Students from the following 22 schools and teachers have works being shown...
Academy of the Holy Cross, Martha Schlabs and Mrs. Hoffman
Albert Einstein High School, Amber Carroll
Bethesda Chevy Chase High School
Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, Jerry Eisner
Clarksburg High School, Lynn Galloro
Earle B. Wood Middle School
Edmund Burke School, Allen Jackson
Gaithersburg High School, Stephen Walker
Green Acres School, Victor Stokoll
James Hubert Blake High School, Sarah Hartenstine
John F. Kennedy High School, Ms. Ingersoll-Gilbertson
The Nora School, Dave Mullen
Paint Branch High School, Emily Aumaitre
Poolesville High School, Nori Thorne and Shannon Heaton-Pembleton
The Potomac School, Elizabeth Kupersmith
School Without Walls, James Cunningham
Sherwood High School, Deborah Bernhardt
Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, Mary Battaglia
Washington Waldorf School, Barbara Bancroft
Watkins Mill High School, James Wu
Westland Middle School, Mr. Ritter
Winston Churchill High School, Michael Foo

The exhibition begins at 7:30 pm, with the awards ceremony around 8:15pm.

Rather bizarre photo movie

After all, who still shoots large format film?

Gettysburg

Walked the Gettysburg battlefield this weekend, camping with some old friends. Yes, it was 14 degrees Friday night, but nonetheless good for my soul (if not my cough). On a quiet Saturday in December it's hard to imagine the scene 147 years ago when thousands fought and died on these fields. The nature of warfare was so different from today, yet young men and women still fight and die so that others may enjoy a better life. If only we civilians living comfortably behind the front lines were willing to make some type of sacrifice in their support. Instead, we fuss about our taxes and the price of gas.

Atget's Paris from the NY Times

Publish Post

Remember Haiti

From photographer Ryan Booth on Scott Kelby's blog about his current trip in Haiti: "I say all of this only to remind us that in so many parts of the world tonight families will sleep on the ground without shelter. For many, clean water is a rarity at best. Many are hungry. Many are sick. The world is an impossibly beautiful place and photography is such a conduit to truly seeing that beauty. But the truth is that when you really start to see, and I mean really, really open your eyes to the world around you, you find dichotomy. Beauty and suffering seem to co-mingle. I only bring this up so that we may not forget the silent majority in this world that lack even the most basic of elements. Water. Food. Shelter." While Pakistan is in the news, and we've moved on from Haiti, it's important to remember that so many people in the world are suffering even as we deal with our brief (2-3 days) losses of power and suffer only traffic jams caused by flooding.

Dont Forget Haiti: Sidewalks from Ryan Booth on Vimeo.