Supermoon over Tibet

Amazing! (Source)

The curious case of Japan's photography pioneer who buried his legacy

Recommendable! His precious photography glass plates were buried twice in a cemetery next to his grave.

After 133 Years Kodak to Snap Shut? How the Photo Giant Missed Its Moment with Palki Sharma

I thought, Kodak years ago closed shop! How did they survive so long?

Google Earth turns 20: A look back on major moments

Happy birthday! I have used Google Earth frequently and found it very useful. It started with Street View.

"For 20 years, Google Earth has helped us explore and understand the world. With billions of images across aerial photography, satellite imagery, Street View and 3D visuals, Google Earth offers a stunning view of our world. ...

2005: Google Earth went viral at launch and was downloaded 100 million times in just its first week. Two months later, Hurricane Katrina hit, and we quickly worked with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to make updated imagery available to first responders on the ground — a preview of our future impact. ..."

Google Earth turns 20: A look back on major moments "We’re taking a look back at the major launches, moments and milestones that made Google Earth what it is today."

Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone.

Nice cover up

Azealia Banks. She says she is a Zionist. "Banks explained that much of her support for Israel has to do with the way she perceives the Arab world treating Black people." A rapper with a strong opinion.

P.S. I am not sure I like her music. Just listened in on two of her songs on YouTube. It was rather disappointing. Though she might have a nice voice, but the way she is using/abusing it?

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Vietnam War photographer on his iconic 'Napalm Girl' image

Very recommendable! See also my other blog post nearby on the victim.

She is like my daughter the photographer said!

A Great Day in Harlem: The greatest photo in jazz history

Very recommendable!

Seizure of Sally Mann’s photographs in Texas revives old debates about obscenity and freedom of expression. Really!

Recommendable! Yes, Americans still tend to be more prudish than some  other Westerners! 😊

Given that these photo examples presented by the author are from the late 1980s and around 1990, I have some doubt whether these photos really caused such a skandal or controversy as suggested by this article.

Seizure of Sally Mann’s photographs in Texas revives old debates about obscenity and freedom of expression

Sally Mann’s ‘Holding the Weasel’ [her daughter] 1989

The Perfect Tomato [her daughter] 1990

Her son (unknown title and date)

The last men of the American Revolution and their photos

Recommendable!

See Nasa's spectacular new images of Jupiter

Recommendable!

About the life and work of late Ugandan studio photographer Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo

Recommendable!

The Story of Humanizing the Homeless (Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Recommendable! I once used to live very close to this tiny, special museum.

The most rebellious female photographer of all time? Lee Miller

Very recommendable! A muse of Man Ray? I have to admit I either forgot about this photographer or I was not aware of her. I think, I like her stuff!

Mastectomy on a plate! Certainly an unusual photo!

A whole family of Germans committed suicide in the same room in 1945. This is the daughter.

She also captured the horrors of the German concentration camps

With a portrait of Hitler standing on the bathtub rim

Photographer James Barnor: The man who captured Ghana through the ages

Recommendable!

The history-making legacy of Asian American photographer Corky Lee

Recommendable!

He recreated the famous scene at Promontory Point where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad met, but with the descendants of Asian-Americans who built the railroad.

Shock as AP Photo of Shani Louk's Corpse on October 7 Wins 'Picture of the Year' by an American journalism school. Really!

Very disgusting and appalling! To celebrate the crimes of cowardly Barbarians, killers and mass murderers is a very serious failure of judgment!

Just imagine just for one moment you were the parent of this young woman!

Who is this photographer anyway, who had apparently advanced notice or was he part of the cowardly killers and mass murders. Possibly, a war criminal himself? If so, he probably should be indicted! Then he can perhaps explain that he only took these pictures as evidence for the criminal proceedings of these coward killers and mass murderers.

Just see how one of these cowardly Barbarians has his boots on the body of the young woman! Absolutely horrifying!

Shock as AP Photo of Shani Louk's Corpse Wins 'Picture of the Year' Critics reacted in alarm this week after the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri awarded the Associated Press with a “Pictures of the Year” award for photos including an Israeli victim of Hamas.

Photo of slain, mostly naked Jewish woman Hamas paraded in truck on Oct. 7 part of prize-winning images — and outrage erupts

AP Awarded ‘Team Picture Of The Year’ Award Featuring Photo Of Hamas Terrorists Parading Body Of Young Israeli Woman

Team Picture Story of the Year (the original journalism school website)

I do not take pleasure to show this image on my blog!

Femtophotagrophy: World’s fastest camera shoots at 156.3 trillion frames per second called SCARF

Wow! Mind boggling!

"... The new camera can reportedly capture events that occur in the realm of femtoseconds ...

The researchers built on technology they developed as far back as 2014, known as compressed ultrafast photography (CUP) which could capture a now paltry-seeming 100 billion fps. The next stage was called T-CUP, with the T standing for “Trillion-frame-per-second” – which was, true to its word, capable of up to 10 trillion fps. And then in 2020, the team bumped it up to 70 trillion fps with a version called compressed ultrafast spectral photography (CUSP). ..."

"... this approach can only be applied to inert samples or to phenomena that happen the exact same way each time .. “For example, phenomena such as femtosecond laser ablation, shock-wave interaction with living cells, and optical chaos cannot be studied this way,” ... SCARF makes it possible to observe unique phenomena that are ultrafast, non-repeatable, or difficult to reproduce, such as shock wave mechanics in living cells or matter. These advances could potentially be used to develop better pharmaceutics and medical treatments. ..."

From the abstract:

"Single-shot real-time femtophotography is indispensable for imaging ultrafast dynamics during their times of occurrence. Despite their advantages over conventional multi-shot approaches, existing techniques confront restricted imaging speed or degraded data quality by the deployed optoelectronic devices and face challenges in the application scope and acquisition accuracy. They are also hindered by the limitations in the acquirable information imposed by the sensing models. Here, we overcome these challenges by developing swept coded aperture real-time femtophotography (SCARF). This computational imaging modality enables all-optical ultrafast sweeping of a static coded aperture during the recording of an ultrafast event, bringing full-sequence encoding of up to 156.3 THz to every pixel on a CCD camera. We demonstrate SCARF’s single-shot ultrafast imaging ability at tunable frame rates and spatial scales in both reflection and transmission modes. Using SCARF, we image ultrafast absorption in a semiconductor and ultrafast demagnetization of a metal alloy."

World’s fastest camera shoots at 156.3 trillion frames per second Engineers at INRS Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Centre in Canada have developed the world’s fastest camera, which can shoot at an astonishing 156.3 trillion frames per second (fps).

Pushing back the limits of optical imaging by processing trillions of frames per second (original news release) Professor Jinyang Liang’s team is advancing in imaging speed with a new ultrafast camera system.

Swept coded aperture real-time femtophotography (open access)

The researcher sitting in front their camera

Stunning photos show the Sun like never before

Wow! Some stunning photos indeed! By a professional astrophotographer! We still know so little about the sun! What if the sun is the primary driver of climate change not the e.g. obscene anthropocene?

Rare Photos Of Native Americans That Were Discovered

Recommendable!

Minneapolis Institute of Art: In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now, Always Leaders

Could be an interesting exhibition!