Center for Photography at Woodstock exhibitition on display at former IBM building in town of Ulster

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Dec. 31—TOWN OF ULSTER, N.Y. — Occupying 8,000 square feet on the second floor of the former IBM building west of Enterprise Drive is the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s largest-ever exhibition, “Parallel Lives: Photography, Identity, and Belonging.”

Brian Wallis, the center’s executive director, said the exhibit, running through Feb. 5, seeks to examine the isolation and separation brought forth as the COVID-19 pandemic raged.

But visitors to the gallery won’t find a single photo of hospitals, people donning masks, or mass graves.

“Instead, it looks at the personal and psychological impact of being isolated and separated from others,” Wallis said.

It features the works of 13 photographers from around the world, chosen from about 500 submissions that were carefully reviewed by Maya Benton, the exhibit’s curator, he said.

The exhibit isn’t afraid to tackle some of the biggest issues, including racism, conversations around gender and sexuality, and immigration, Wallis added. In many cases, Benton ended up not even using the work from the portfolios the artists submitted but ended up drawing other pieces from their work, Wallis said.

Wallis provided a tour of the second-floor space of the building that once housed a cubicle farm as far as the eye can see. He said the exhibition occupies just a tiny fraction of the nearly 400,000-square-foot building. He showed some peeling paint and signs that once marked the different clusters of cubicles, hinting at the building’s halcyon days in the IBM era.

“We wanted to leave some evidence of dereliction,” Wallis said.

Wallis, who formerly served as deputy director at the International Center of Photography in New York City before coming to the center six months ago, said they were looking for a place in Kingston to host the exhibition but they couldn’t find a suitable space.

Wallis recalled meeting with county Director of Economic Development Tim Wiedemann, who suggested the former IBM building, which the county had seized in foreclosure in November 2019 for back taxes owed by TechCity owner Alan Ginsberg. It’s now owned by National Resources, which has taken over the former TechCity complex, rechristening it as iPark 87 and promising extensive redevelopment of the long-troubled site.

Wallis admitted it took a lot of work to get the space ready.

“We had to hire a disaster restoration company,” he said. “There was evidence of animals in here. Some of the fluorescent tubes didn’t work.”

The exhibition walls, made up of unpainted parallel plywood panels, are arranged in a neat geometric order reminiscent of the long-gone cubicles of the building’s office days.

Among the featured artists is Manuel Acevedo, whose black and white photos capture Newark, N.J., from 1982 to 1987. Wallis said they touch on topics such as racism and over-policing, laid bare in shots with mounted cops on horseback.

“He just rode the bus back and forth on this one street, sometimes taking photos from the bus and other times getting off,” he said.

At the other end of the exhibition are Noelle Mason’s cyanotypes and tintypes depicting people being smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border in everything from tractor-trailer fuel tanks to large rolled suitcases. Cyanotypes are made using a 19th-century process where positive prints are made using the sun, he said.

The daughter of a border policeman, Mason now lives in Florida. Wallis said some of her cyanotypes are repurposed from radar images found on right-wing websites.

Also featured are Mason’s large tapestries depicting communities captured from aerial photography. Other images are tintypes, a process the center teaches, Wallis said.

On another panel are Jillian Marie Browing’s cyanotypes on embroidered backgrounds. Wallis showed off several that celebrate her matrilineal heritage through her own hair along with hair from her mother and her grandmother. Another image is a large self-portrait, he said.

Nearby, Rashad Taylor’s father-son images of Black men, including a self-portrait of him with his own son, seek to shatter the negative images cast upon Black men by the media and other institutions, Wallis said.

“He wanted to make regular representations that show a positive representation,” Wallis said.

After focusing her work mostly in countries that ban same-sex marriages, French photographer Scarlett Cote spent three years of the Trump presidency, with its hyper-focus on masculinity, traveling the U.S. to examine the spectrum of masculinity in the U.S., according to Wallis.

Felix Quintana’s photographs, also using a unique cyanotype, often with a tattoo-like graffiti, scratched document gentrification in South Central Los Angeles through a Latinx perspective, Wallis said.

Wallis said the center will host a number of special events before the exhibit closes. They will include family hours from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Saturday in January.

Gallery hours are Thursdays through Sundays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Photos: Center for Photography at Woodstock exhibit : Parallel Lives: Photography, Identity and Belonging

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Why The Creative Economy Shouldn’t Fear Generative A.I.

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Artificial intelligence is all over the news. When ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new chatbot, was released last month it seemed, finally, to match the hype that generative A.I. has been promising for years—an easy-to-use machine intelligence for the general public.

Wild predictions soon followed: The death of search engines, the end of homework, the hollowing-out of creative professions.

And, for the first time, such predictions didn’t seem abstract. When an A.I. bot like ChatGPT can write a coherent story or essay in seconds, and visual applications like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2, produce similarly comprehensible images you have to wonder if human creativity—slow and often uncertain—might be superfluous.

We’ve been here before.

In 1839 a French painter named Louis Daguerre revealed an invention to the Académie des Sciences and the Académie des Beaux Arts in Paris that stunned their members—a process for taking and fixing a photographic image.

The enthusiasm for his invention, the daguerreotype, was immediate and off the charts. And so were predictions for how it might change the world.

After seeing his first daguerreotype, the artist Paul Delaroche exclaimed, “From today, painting is dead!” On one level, he was right. The kind of painting practiced by Delaroche, ultra-realistic and painstakingly rendered portraits, would largely be replaced by photographs. But other artists saw potential in the new technology and quickly incorporated it into their creative process.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec photographed his models so he could continue painting when they were no longer sitting in front of him. Edgar Degas described photographs as “images of magical instantaneity.” He reveled in the way a photograph could freeze time and show aspects of motion that had never been seen before.

Impressionist painters such as Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro began dramatizing the color, light and movement of a scene, using thick oil pigments and broad brush strokes that made their canvases look like sculpture. Several decades later, René Magritte and Salvador Dalí returned to a more realist style in their paintings, but with images that a camera could never capture—the human dream-state.

In America, a young painter named Mathew Brady learned about Daguerre’s invention and decided to abandon painting altogether. Brady opened a photography studio in New York City in 1844 and quickly established himself as a master of this new art, taking portraits of the most famous public figures of his time.

But it was his decision in 1861 to abandon the studio and take his equipment to the Civil War battlefields that established Brady’s place in history as the founder of an entirely different profession, photojournalism.

For the first time, the public at home saw the reality of war—dead men sprawled across the road, trees shorn of their leaves and branches from a hail of bullets, amputations being performed in squalid field hospitals.

War had been recorded by painters for hundreds of years. But few ever saw a battle with their own eyes. If they did, a sketch and their memory of the event was all they had to guide them. Photography allowed incidental horrors to be documented. A soldier’s recurring nightmare could now become our own.

By the last years of the 19th century photographic techniques had advanced to the point where they were revealing truths about nature that artists had missed for thousands of years. How did a horse gallop? Renderings before Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic studies in 1878 show it one way. Ever since then we know it, and see it, differently.

In 1893 Thomas Edison announced the Kinetoscope, a machine for viewing moving images. Just two years later in Paris, the Lumière brothers invented a machine for projecting film, called the Cinématographe. Photography now had motion and a rapt audience.

In our time, photography’s reach has only grown—from full-length Hollywood movies on our phones to immersive virtual landscapes in our VR headsets.

When people saw photographic images for the first time, soon after photography’s invention, they often marveled at its strangeness—the extreme tonal range and foreshortening, the unusual perspectives, the arbitrary framing, the capturing of the immediate and the casual.

But then, with time and familiarity, they began to see the world the way a camera sees. It’s hard for us to imagine that mental shift. Everyone living today has always known photography. We can’t go back.

Perhaps this is our future too. What now feels shocking and portentous may be something we soon can’t imagine living without. Photography gave us new eyes. Who knows what creative tools A.I. will offer?

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See Mars ‘peek out’ from behind the moon in stunning eclipse photo

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Mars reappears from behind the lunar surface after being eclipsed by the moon for around an hour on Dec. 7. (Image credit: Andrew McCarthy/@cosmic_background)

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An awe-inspiring new image has captured the moment a tiny and unusually vibrant Mars rose from behind the moon’s crater-covered surface during a recent eclipse.

The Red Planet was temporarily obscured from Earth’s view by the passing moon during an event known as a lunar occultation, which occurs roughly twice a year and lasts for around an hour. However, the Dec. 7 eclipse proved especially dramatic because Mars was at opposition, meaning Earth was directly between it and the sun, which makes the planet appear unusually bright in the night sky, according to Live Science’s sister site Space.com (opens in new tab). 



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Ricoh announces new Pentax Film Camera Project

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December 31, 2022

RICOH Imaging Company, has announced a new Pentax Film Camera project focused on the research and development of film camera products.

In his message to the press, Noboru Akahane, President and CEO of Ricoh Imaging, affirmed that the company has been listening to film camera users and that this project will provide them with products that helps address challenges in the development, manufacturing and aftercare service of film cameras.

Film photography has been growing in popularity over the last few years, especially with the young Gen Z. Unlike the days of film and print, the current trend shows young people enjoy using film cameras and products while displaying them in a digital format on social media platforms. In a world where smartphones have dramatically changed the culture of photography, there is a part of the population that is still keen on spending more time on enjoyable activities such as capturing and creating beautiful images.

This renewed spark in film photography has ignited RICOH Imaging’s plan to produce products using knowledge, skills and technologies that they have developed over the years. With fewer manufacturers and a growing concern about the servicing of film cameras, the project seeks to prioritize users – from camera development, production, sales and aftercare.

Ricoh Imaging is also looking to engage with camera aficionados, creators, and photographers to promote the project through hybrid and in-person events as well as on social media. Using feedback and suggestions from film camera users will also be a big part of product development.

The success of this project is not just pinned on this user-driven strategy but also on involving other manufacturers to help counter the challenges of procuring essential film camera parts which are no longer as widely available since the advent of digital cameras.

Read the full press statement here.

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John Muir US National Park Preservation

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The mountains are calling and I must go.

Many of these articles highlight the natural wonders across the US, but many of them would not exist if it weren’t for the work put forth by conservationists. Our national parks were not always the federally protected lands they are today, and had it not been for environmentally conscious individuals pushing back against industrialists, we might never have had anything preserved.

Let’s take a look at the life and decades of work put forth by one of America’s most prominent conservationists, John Muir. If you’ve not yet heard of him, you’ll know soon enough that he was partly or wholly responsible for an impressive number of protected national parks across the country.

As It Is In Heaven

The whites and ingidos of an alpine meadow of lupine mirror the crags and glaciers of Mount Rainier National Park’s eponymous peak. The highest summit in the Pacific Northwest, the dormant volcano slumbers peacefully beneath the quiet grandeur of a midsummer sunset. Fine Art Limited Edition of 100.

The Life of John Muir | John of the Mountains

Despite being born in Scotland, John Muir was heavily involved in US forestry conservation efforts throughout his life. He left his home country at about the age of eleven to live and work on a Wisconsin farm with his family. Muir spent much of his youth working from sunrise to sunset, but in 1860, he left the farm to attend college in Madison.

He worked toward inventing machinery after finishing his schooling, but following an injury, he ceased inventing and started pursuing natural and creative efforts. He traveled throughout the US (and later the world), kept a journal about his adventures, wrote various articles that were published in popular magazines of the time, and put his heart into preserving the natural world.

John Muir died from pneumonia in 1914, in his seventies, but the effort he put into his passion for the outdoors is recognized even today.

The Sentinels

Wisps of fog drift silently down a lush hillside in the foothills of Mount Rainier National Park. Wraithlike, stands of fir and aromatic red cedar keep watch in the sheltered vales. Fine Art Limited Edition of 50.

“Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.”

John Muir Artistic Works

During his lifetime, John Muir wrote an impressive body of work, which included roughly 300 articles and ten full-length books that detailed his adventures, discussed his thoughts and feelings about nature, and encouraged others to take part in enjoying the great outdoors.

Some of his most popular books include A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, The Yosemite, Stickeen, Our National Parks, My First Summer in the Sierra, and The Mountains of California.

Essays and articles he penned were published in Century Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, the New York Tribune, and Harper’s Magazine (then called Harper’s New Monthly Magazine). Most of the topics of these articles involved the natural world in some way. Some were meant to display the appeal of the forests, others were written to note the behaviors of wild animals, and others still were originally letters from himself to friends, colleagues, and government leaders.

Some of Muir’s journals were released after his death as well, covering many of the experiences he had and thought-provoking philosophies that came to mind during his travels.

Eternal Beauty

Liquid sun laps like the waves on a beach over a meadow of lupine and paintbrush in Mount Rainier National Park. Low banks of fog move through the valleys beneath the torn peaks of a dark mountain ridge, its snowy crags warmed by the embers of a dusky sky. Fine Art Limited Edition of 50.

“I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”

John Muir Preservation Efforts

Muir loved and respected the natural world, and the more he saw of it, the greater his resolve became. By 1876, he was already calling for conservation efforts to become law so that the vast forests of the US would have federal protections.

Unlike some conservationists of the time, like Gifford Pinchot, John Muir supported the complete preservation of national parks and forests, meaning that he was fully against the idea of allowing industrial interference. In his view, the natural world was one that should be off limits to those who sought to profit from any form of its destruction. This view was in contrast with conservationists who supported the idea of sustainable usage of various natural resources.

Muir’s writings were one of the driving forces behind pulling the public’s attention to the risks that came with the exploitation of the land, and his devotion to his cause helped bring the public’s opinion toward supporting conservation as well. The work he put into protecting national parks and forests helped cement the designation of 13 national forests in the US, and his influence helped spearhead the development of President Roosevelt’s conservation program.

Muir’s work also influenced the establishment of Mount Rainier as a national park in 1899 and the creation of the Grand Canyon National park in 1919, five years after his death.

However, it must be noted that Muir’s views toward the Indigenous Americans whose ancestors lived across the continent for centuries before settlers arrived were quite negative by today’s standards. Rather than showing support for the people whose very histories were entwined within the natural landscape, Muir was quite judgmental toward Native Americans. His opinions regarding Black Americans were not much better, as was unfortunately common in decades and centuries past.

Still, the results of his labor can’t be overlooked, as many of the national parks that exist today became a reality in some part due to John Muir. This includes Yosemite National Park, Sequoia National Park, the Petrified Forest, and as mentioned above, both Mount Rainier and the Grand Canyon National Parks.

The Sweet Smell Of Summer

A dance of primary colors floods an alpine glade in the Cascade Mountains in Washington. A sunset navigates the troubled skies, painting the highest peaks of a ridge a deep velvety maroon. Fine Art Limited Edition of 50.

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

John Muir Mt Rainier National Park

While generally associated with California’s High Sierra and Yosemite National Park, the Scottish-American naturalist, author and preservationist John Muir was also instrumental in the establishment of Mount Rainier National Park. In August of 1888 at the age of 50 he joined a climbing party which included Major Edward S. Ingraham, photographer Arthur Churchill Warner and guides Indian Henry and Philemon Beecher Van Trump for an ascent of the 14,411-foot volcano.

Muir’s group became the fifth recorded climbing party to have reached Rainier’s summit. But with Warner it became the first ascent documented by photography. Muir penned his experience in Ascent of Mount Rainier. The book along with Warner’s photos helped brought public awareness to the area and the need to protect it. And while Muir was impressed with being upon the mountain, he felt that it was better appreciated from below. He saw the value in preserving the area’s vast old-growth forests and pristine alpine meadows. In 1898 he wrote in The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West, If in the making of the West, Nature had what we call parks in mind-places for rest, inspiration, and prayers -this Rainier region must surely be one of them.

On March 2, 1899, a little over a decade after Muir’s ascent, Mount Rainier became America’s fifth national park.

Morning Fire

A chill dawn sets the sky alight behind the bristled silhouettes of a stand of cedar and fir. A ghostly mist hangs over the mirror-like surface of the lake, cloaking the shore in a veil of lavender. Fine Art Limited Edition of 50.

“…the most luxuriant and the most extravagantly beautiful of all the alpine gardens I ever beheld in all my mountain-top wanderings.”

The Sierra Club

One of Muir’s greatest achievements was founding the Sierra Club, an environmental organization that still exists today. In 1892, Muir, along with a group of other conservationists in California established the group and Muir served as the first president. It was a role he held until his death. The club was both a group for individuals who cared about preserving the natural world as well as a collection of activists who pushed back against efforts to reduce protections for national park lands. One of the group’s first missions involved stopping the push to decrease the size of Yosemite’s protected landmass.

Some of the group’s founding members included Joseph LeConte, Warren Olney, Willard Drake Johnson, and William Kieth. A couple of these names might be familiar, as LeConte and his colleague Henry Fairfield Osborn were deeply involved in the US’s eugenics movement.

Fortunately, the views of the time evolved and so did the club’s membership. The modern-day Sierra Club is far more inclusive and while it has distanced itself from the racism and antisemitism that put a blot on an otherwise fantastic cause, today’s leadership group acknowledges the issues of the past.

As of now, the Sierra Club is still at it, pushing for the protection of forests, parks, and wildlife. The club is a testament to the possibilities that can come to light when human beings work together toward a common good. The fact that the US has not been entirely destroyed to make way for factories, gated neighborhoods, and other business interests means that we owe the Sierra Club and its members a debt of gratitude.

So, the next time you’re out in nature, enjoying the wonder around you and taking in landscapes that only seem possible in paintings, take a moment to consider one of the many individuals who put their life’s work into preserving these beautiful places.

Her Majesty

The jagged spires of Mount Whitney, highest peak in the contiguous U.S., are sparked to golden flame by the blaze of the dying sun. A wreath of snow and pitch-black pines drape the grand entrance to the cloudborne tower. Fine Art Limited Edition of 50.

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Experiential travel on the rise in Visakhapatnam

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People enjoying fog engulfed araku valley from a newly discovered view piont at Madagada in Araku 130 km from Visakhapatnam

People enjoying fog engulfed araku valley from a newly discovered view piont at Madagada in Araku 130 km from Visakhapatnam
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From learning astro-photography at a hilly countryside, witnessing a stunning sunrise above a mist of clouds from the highest peak of the Eastern Ghats to discovering a trek route that opens up a world rich with biodiversity, a growing number of people are seeking localised and personalised travel experiences in and around Visakhapatnam.

Many are trying to learn a new skill in the process, experience a new culture, tradition and history and gain knowledge about the rich ecosystems in the vicinity.

Over 120 participants have gathered at the ongoing 10th national workshop on pictorial and travel photography organised by Khamam Photo Arts Organisation (KPAO) in Araku to travel to the interior tribal villages of the region and learn key elements of photography from experts.

“The response has been overwhelming. There are art lovers, photographers, Fine Arts students, journalists from across the country who want to experience the beauty of the place and learn the different elements of photography,” says V Naga Raju Devara Rao of KPAO. During the three-day workshop, participants in small batches visited the hills of Odisha’s Malkangiri district, which is home of the Bonda tribes, a particularly vulnerable tribal group known for their secluded lives. “Every Thursday, the Bonda tribes come to the shandy (local market). This is a great way to understand the tribal culture of the region,” says Naga Raju. According to noted photographer Sudhakar Reddy, secretary of Andhra Pradesh Photography Academy, the experience of traveling with a group that shares a common interest opens up a deeper understanding of the world around. “Participants learn the ways of identifying the subject, understanding the right composition and capturing the essence of a place,” he adds.

People enjoying fog engulfed araku valley from a newly discovered view piont at Madagada in Araku 130 km from Visakhapatnam

People enjoying fog engulfed araku valley from a newly discovered view piont at Madagada in Araku 130 km from Visakhapatnam
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KR Deepak

Ban Nanda, a photography enthusiast and one of the participants of the workshop, discovered a new viewpoint for shooting the sunrise from a veil of clouds from a cliff near Madagada village. “We reached before sunrise and were stunned by the beauty of place. Acessibility to the hill, proximity to Araku makes it a great place for viewing the sunrise,” he says. Madagada is a potter’s village. “Ideal days to visit are from Monday to Thursday where one can observe the potters at work. On the weekends, they head to the shandy to sell the pots,” Nanda adds.

According to Naveen Rongali, founder of Ecohikes, a trekking group that conducts sustainable treks and travels, the concept of experiential travel has picked up in a big way during this year. “We saw many people who expressed interest in understanding the local culture, food and tradition while camping at non-touristy spots in the tribal belts near Visakhapatnam. In fact, many families with children are keen on trying out these weekend camps and want children to experience Nature and rural life,” he says.

The group’s focus has been the Jhindagada peak, considered the highest peak of the Eastern Ghats in Andhra Pradesh. “We have been training the tribals to interact with the travelers and give them a peek into their culture,” says Naveen. Ecohikes has been conducting camps at lesser-known peaks and waterfalls in the Eastern Ghats almost every weekend. “Our main objective is to help people understand how our tribes have been living in these regions with reverence for Nature,” explains Naveen. Shortly, a new place near Devarapalli will be added to their list of camping sites.

Participants of the photography workshop conducted by Khamam Photo Arts Organisation capturing tribal life at a village near Araku, 130 kilometres from Visakhapatnam

Participants of the photography workshop conducted by Khamam Photo Arts Organisation capturing tribal life at a village near Araku, 130 kilometres from Visakhapatnam
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Within the city limits in Visakhapatnam, there are people who offer experiential treks that help one understand the biodiversity of the region. Sumanth Behara, who started Triptan Adventures earlier this year, says the Yarada hike is the most sought-after trail. “This is a secluded beach and the trek offers a breathtaking view of coastline,” he says. One of the essential parts of the treks involve sensitising the participants about the importance of the place, being extra careful in geo-heritage sites and to leave no plastic behind.

City-based organisation Wilded has been conducting noctural walks at the Simhachalam hill range and inter-tidal walks at Rushikonda coast to uncover a colourful world bustling with life hidden amid the rocks. “The idea is to build a community of responsible travelers and discoverers who can appreciate Nature in their surroundings and understand the significance of the varied ecosystems. Over the past year, we have seen a good number of participants turn up for these experiential treks and walks and actively involve in being citizen scientists to document inter-tidal biodiversity of Andhra Pradesh,” says Sri Chakra Pranav Tamarapalli, who along with K Vimal Raj started Wilded with the primary aim of wilderness education.

“We are now exploring Araku and Paderu to conduct camps centering around birdwatching and butterfly watching. We are planning to roll this out soon,” says Pranav.

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30 Hilarious Photos Of People Having A Worse Day Of Their Lives (New Pics)

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Here are the 30 hilarious photos of people having a worse day of their lives. Some times you’re not having a good time of things. You didn’t get much sleep, the car won’t start, and you’re late for work. Seems like you’re having the worst day ever! It’s easy to feel grumpy and full of self-pity; you might even bring the people around you down as well, with your crappy mood.

Scroll and enjoy yourself. All photos are linked and lead to the sources from which they were taken. Please feel free to explore further works of these photographers on their collections or their personal sites.

#1 I’m Visually Impaired. I Couldn’t Tell The Difference Between A Wireless Charger And A Mug Heater

Worse Day Of Their Lives

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#2 The Coffee Maker That Saved My Life A Week Ago

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#3 I’m Not A Big Fan Of Ballet. But My Wife Said It Would Be An Unforgettable Experience. It Was

Worse Day Of Their Lives

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#4 When You Find Out The Hard Way That The Italian Restaurant’s Hand Sanitizer Looks Exactly Like Olive Oil

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#5 Lost Both Legs In April, Yesterday I Flipped My Wheelchair Off A Sidewalk For The First Time

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#6 Almost Died This Morning On The Highway. Bounced From The Left Lane Up In The Air And Impaled My Windshield

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#7 I’m Just Trying To Refund Two Tickets

Worse Day Of Their Lives

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#8 Oh God

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#9 The View From My Apartment When I Moved In vs. Now

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#10 Can You Guess Which Month A Pipe Burst Under My House?

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#11 This Week Started With A Break-Up, Then I Had To Get My Car Towed, and Now I Spilled Spaghetti In My Shoe

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#12 This Is My View From The Bathroom Floor, Looking At The Hole In The Ceiling I Just Fell Through

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#13 Not My Teeth But Someone’s Not Eating Solids Today

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#14 Guess What Kind Of Animal Nonchalantly Pushed My Mug From The Table

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#15 The Ice Cream Cake I Ordered For Valentine’s Day Said “I Love You” But Some Of The Letters Fell Off During Transit

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#16 I Was Billed Over $2M For A Week In The Hospital

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#17 I Accidentally Ripped Out My Eyelashes An Hour Before I Got Married

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#18 Dropped My Cologne In My Sink

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#19 My Girlfriend Found A Band-Aid In Her Food… Well, In Her Mouth Really

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#20 A Machine Came Thru My Local John Deere For Repairs From The Tornado In Kentucky

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#21 A Machine Came Thru My Local John Deere For Repairs From The Tornado In Kentucky

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#22 Toast It Is

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#23 My Mom Washed My Favorite Sweater… Is This The Lewk?

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#24 Someone Flying Out Of DFW Is Going To Have A Rough Time In A Few Hours

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#25 Guy Parks On The Stripes Thinking He Can Avoid The Freezing Rain Only To Be Under A Leaky Pipe

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#26 Joke’s On You, Most Pics In That Card Are Yours

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#27 Hi, I’m Calling To Start A Claim -My Car Is Flooded. Oh, I Don’t Have Flood Coverage? In That Case, It’s On Fire

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#28 When It’s Your Stop And The Doors Open To This

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#29 Came Home After A Long Shift, Went To Get Some Food, A Mouse Was In It

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#30 That’s Definitely What An Alpha Male Would Do

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Bryan Kohberger Photo Sparks Ted Bundy Comparisons in Appearance, Age, More

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University of Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger (left) and serial killer Ted Bundy (right) pictured side-by-side in their respective mugshots.


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University of Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger (left) and serial killer Ted Bundy (right) pictured side-by-side in their respective mugshots.

The suspect in the slayings of four University of Idaho college students is drawing comparisons to serial killer Ted Bundy after mugshots began making their way across the internet Friday.

The suspect arrested in Pennsylvania on Friday—Bryan Kohberger—was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University, nearly 300 miles from Bundy’s alma mater. Bundy received his undergraduate degree from the University of Washington, majoring in psychology, before moving on to law school at the University of Utah.

Bundy stalked and killed college students. Kohberger, 28, is accused of doing the same.

Both also had chilling similarities in their interests that hinted at crimes: A Reddit post seemingly belonging to Kohberger unearthed shortly after his arrest appeared to show him asking questions about how crimes are committed, how victims were targeted, and how someone would leave a crime scene. Bundy, who was roughly the same age as Kohberger at the time of his first murders, spent time as assistant director of the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Commission in Olympia, Washington, where he wrote a pamphlet for women on rape prevention.

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The most chilling comparison, however, is their likenesses: In side-by-side comparisons of their mugshots posted on social media, both men have similar hairstyles and eyebrows, the same thin lips, gaunt cheekbones and matching ears, startling some Twitter users.

“I’m creeped out by similarities w/Ted Bundy. Both studied psychology/criminology at UW. … I was a Chi Omega Sorority member in the 90s and we never forgot what Ted did,” tweeted @Meidas_ZobethC.

Though little is known about the motivations driving the Idaho killings, the nature of the crimes drew comparisons to Bundy well before Friday’s photo release. In early December, John Henry Browne—Bundy’s onetime attorney—told news outlets he believed there were numerous similarities between the Idaho killings and those committed by his client, who left behind only paltry evidence at the start of his killing spree that left some three dozen dead.

“Just the randomness of it is actually something that does stand out,” he told Fox News Digital in an interview this month. “Of course, most of Ted’s misbehavior was random. There were times when Ted would follow people and then decide not to kill them. And that was his way of exercising his grandiosity, you know, ‘I can control life here and there.'”

Kohberger is being held for extradition in Monroe County Court in Pennsylvania for first-degree murder by the Moscow Police Department as well as the Latah County Prosecutor’s Office in Idaho.

Victims of the November 13 killings were Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle, both 20, and classmates Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen, 21-year-olds, all killed early in the morning in their off-campus home in Moscow.

Kohberger is expected in court next week.

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What is Exposure Time in Photography? Your Best Guide

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“What is your typical exposure time in this kind of lighting?”  I panicked when the pro photographer asked me that question when I was starting.  I had no idea what she was asking or how to have an intelligent conversation about exposure time.  In fact, I didn’t even know what “exposure time” meant.  Yikes!  So what is exposure time in photography?  I don’t want you to have to stumble over that kind of question, too.  So today, let’s talk about exposure time, what it means, and how to decide how to best use it in some common scenarios.

What is the Exposure Triangle

Before we can talk about determining the best exposure time in your photos, you’ll need to understand the exposure triangle and how it works.  Your camera settings all work together to form the perfect exposure.  Using manual mode allows you to choose the settings on your own.  In Your Ultimate Guide to Shooting in Manual Mode, take an in-depth look at the exposure triangle and shooting in manual mode.   Even if you sometimes choose to shoot in automatic mode, you’ll be doing yourself a favor by learning how the exposure triangle works.

Today, let’s have a quick reminder.  Three settings on your camera affect the exposure triangle.  They are aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.  These three settings work together to create the right light in your final image.

Look at what the inside of your camera looks like with this graphic.  Let’s talk about how some parts of your camera work to achieve the perfect exposure.



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A diagram of a DSLR camera showing the shutter location

Aperture

Aperture refers to the amount that the lens on your camera will open.  Inside the lens, a diaphragm opens and closes (labeled “aperture blades”) to let light into your camera.  Just like the pupil in your eye opens to let more light in and closes to allow less light, your camera lens does the same thing. 

Your aperture setting will also affect depth of field, so know that when you adjust the aperture for exposure, you will also change the slice of focus you can achieve.

Shutter Speed

The camera’s shutter lies right in front of the camera’s image sensor (labeled “shutter”).  When you press the shutter button, the shutter slides open for a determined amount of time to let light in and then closes.  The length of time that the shutter is open is called “shutter speed.”  The slower the shutter speed, the longer the shutter stays open, hence more light.

Shutter speed also affects how we freeze or capture action, so when you adjust shutter speed, you will change how motion shows in your images.  Long exposure times blur movement, whereas a short exposure time will stop motion. 

ISO

ISO refers to the standardized industry scale for measuring how sensitive your camera’s sensor is to the light that hits it.  Many technical details make ISO work, but it’s enough to know that the higher the number you use when setting ISO, the more sensitive your camera’s sensor is to the light that hits it.



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A higher ISO number makes an image brighter but also increases digital noise or makes your image look grainy.  The average viewer isn’t going to notice a low to moderate amount of grain, but to achieve the highest image quality, keep your ISO as low as possible.  High ISOs mean high noise, and low ISOs mean low noise.

What is Exposure Time?

Let’s recap so far.  In photography, exposure is defined as the amount of light that enters your camera and hits the camera’s sensor, which is responsible for recording the image.  There are three specific ways the camera allows light in:  ISO, Shutter Speed, and aperture.  Those three ways are commonly called the exposure triangle.

Today we’re talking about exposure time, which is a function of the shutter in your camera, specifically how long the shutter stays open to let the light into the camera.  Exposure time is critical to determining how bright or dark your photos are.

A perfectly-exposed photo shows crisp detail in your image’s lightest areas (highlights) and the darkest areas (shadows).  When an image does not get enough light, it is underexposed.  Too much light and it is overexposed.  When a photo is improperly exposed, information will be missing in the pixels of the photo’s darkest or lightest areas.



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a large sea bird stands atop a building. The image is edited into stripes indicating over-exposed, correctly exposed, and under-exposed

Exposure Time and Motion Capture

Exposure time also affects how you capture motion in photography.  Exposure time allows you to either freeze action or intentionally blur it.  But exposure time is also essential for getting the perfect amount of light on your subject.  Even though it sounds simple, the truth is that exposure can be a complicated subject in photography.  Remember that there is always room for creative interpretation, and a photo has many elements equally as crucial as exposure.

The best thing you can do to get the look you’re after is practice, practice, practice!  Once you master one facet of a gorgeous image, add another technique.  Remember, this is the difference between a person with a fancy camera and an actual photographer.

Freezing and Blurring Motion

Using a fast shutter speed will allow you to freeze action.  Using a slow shutter speed will allow you to capture motion, which can be fun for light trails, moving water, or creative sports shots.

Reciprocal Rule of Exposure

If you want to get just the right amount of light onto your subject, and that subject isn’t moving a lot, and you wish to avoid motion blur, then you’re going to want to tuck this next nugget of info into the back of your mind:  The reciprocal Rule.  The name sounds fancy, but it’s really quite simple.  The reciprocal rule is:

Exposure time = reciprocal value of the focal length

But don’t be scared.  Think of it this way:  If you are shooting at a 50mm focal distance, you must use no slower shutter speed than 1/50s.  If you are using a long lens, shooting a portrait at 200mm, and holding your camera by hand, you must use no slower shutter speed than 1/200s.  Make sense?  If you wish to use a slower shutter speed than that, then you’ll need a tripod to avoid camera shake and motion blur.

Of course, nothing is simple in photography, so know that if you have image stabilization on your lens, you can bend this rule a bit.  Nevertheless, you won’t go wrong with the reciprocal rule.

What Tools Can I Use to Help Calculate Exposure Time?

All of this sounds very complicated, but with a bit of practice, you’ll choose your exposure time like a pro!  Many people like to use a light meter when getting started, which is a great tool.  Personally, I think there is no better way to learn how to set your exposure time than by practice, practice, practice!  Using a tool is an excellent way to learn as long as you remember that the more dependent upon that tool you become, the more you’ll need to stuff in your bag and carry later.  And this Hip Grandma likes to travel light, so this is a tool I don’t use in my everyday photography.

Exposure Time Jargon

There are a few words you’ll hear bandied about when you’re listening to photographers talk about their craft.  Let’s review a few of them related to exposure time.

Shutter Stop

When you adjust your exposure time, you will do it in “stops.”  Each exposure stop represents a change in shutter speed to either double the time the shutter is open or divided by half.  Most modern digital cameras can shoot at a lightning-fast shutter speed of 1/4000 or 1/4000th of a second.  That’s mighty fast!  Adjusting that to one-stop slower equals 1/2000 or 1/2000th of a second.  The next stop is 1/1000, then 1/500, etc., all the way down to 1 second, and then even slower to 2 seconds, 4 seconds, 8 seconds, etc.  Most modern cameras will allow you to make adjustments in half-stop and third-stop increments.

Here’s a practical example:  If you start with a shutter speed of 1/125th of a second and adjust that to 1/250th of a second, you are doubling the time the shutter is open, thus letting in double the amount of light.

Although memorizing these numbers is not necessary, learning how shutter speed works by halving and doubling the amount of light that reaches your camera sensor is critical to understanding how to get the best results in every image.  When more light reaches your camera’s sensor, your image is brighter.  When less light reaches your camera’s sensor, your image is darker.

Exposure Value

Exposure Value is the term commonly used to explain how much light reaches your camera’s digital sensor not only through shutter speed but also by taking into account aperture and ISO settings.

Dynamic Range

Dynamic Range is the measured amount of difference between your photo’s brightest and darkest areas.  An image with a high dynamic range (HDR) will vary significantly from the darkest darks to the lightest lights, and everything from each extreme will maintain details.

Histogram

The histogram is a graph that shows the range of tones in any given image from brightest brights to darkest darks.  Modern DSLR cameras will allow you to see the histogram on the camera’s screen or in the viewfinder.  You can also see the histogram in Lightroom or other editing software. 

Exposure Compensation

Exposure compensation happens when as a photographer, you override your camera’s meter and choose settings that will make your image brighter or darker.  Take a look at How Calculating Exposure Gets You The Perfect Image Every Time for a deeper dive into using your camera’s meter.






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What is the Correct Exposure of An Image?

That is indeed a trick question!  Like snowflakes, every image is unique and different, and every photographer has a distinct artistic vision for what looks great!  For this reason, you must take feedback and constructive criticism lightly and consider the source.  The question is not what is the right exposure, but what were you trying to achieve, and were you successful?  You are well on your way to success when you can achieve the creative vision you desire! 

Wrapping it All Up

Why Should I Care About Exposure Time?  Because understanding how exposure time works with the other settings in your camera gives you ultimate control over your photo results.  If you’re a control freak like me, you’ll like knowing exactly why your camera is doing what it’s doing and how to achieve the exact result you are after.  A perfectly exposed photo is the best photo!

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