From onmywaytowork
After 26 months of highlighting thousands of your spectacular, hilarious, moving, and just generally most compelling photos, The Daily F’log is ready to call it a night. It’s not that we’re running out of pics to bring to your attention, of course; there are thousands of new shots every day that you just have to see. But you see, that’s part of the problem: in those two years, Fotolog has grown by about 400%, from around 6 million members then to over 23 million today. Your mountains of photos are now just piled too high for one person to scale on a daily basis, and come back with meaningful recommendations, connections, and insights that would help you get the most out of Fotolog. The Daily F’log archives will remain open here, though, and I hope you’ll browse through whenever you need some inspiration about your fave subject matter or which fellow Fotolog members you don’t know but now you’ve just gotta keep tabs on.
This final collection of photos is the last in the Fotolog Free Association series, The Daily F’log’s occasional obsession with trying to connect the dots of our random Fotolog surfing both visually and thematically. (It’s kinda long, and the vertical blog format isn’t ideal; it’s best if you imagine flipping through the pages of a book.) If you keep your Friends and Favorites list up to date, add new friends regularly, and most important, browse your hundreds of friends’ FF lists religiously, you’ll come across all sorts of wonderful sights and cross-pollinations from all corners of the world. And as it has for me in collecting these groupings of the way you see the world, the journey itself may just become as meaningful to you as sharing your own photos. It’s still one of the best experiences you can have in the pages of Fotolog.
Heartfelt thanks go to the brilliant brain trust of Fotolog, past and present, for giving me the chance to discover endlessly gratifying personal associations, both with them as colleagues and fellow photo fanatics, and with scores of extraordinary folks from around the world who, through the good graces of Fotolog, have become my friends for life. Here’s looking at you, kids.
From lpham
From akinoproduzioni
From cristina_a
From meadows
From lightbox
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From antonelllla
From jtact
From laligna
I came across the following posted today on wasabia’s page. Hope you’re partying tonight the way you always dreamed of. Happy New Year everyone!
What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?
—Ella Fitzgerald (1960)
When the bells all ring and the horns all blow
And the couples we know are fondly kissing.
Will I be with you or will I be among the missing?
Maybe it’s much too early in the game
Ooh, but I thought I’d ask you just the same
What are you doing New Year’s
New Year’s eve?
Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight
When it’s exactly twelve o’clock that night
Welcoming in the New Year
New Year’s eve
Maybe I’m crazy to suppose
I’d ever be the one you chose
Out of a thousand invitations
You received
Ooh, but in case I stand one little chance
Here comes the jackpot question in advance:
What are you doing New Year’s
New Year’s Eve?
From oscarmoon
From batabat
From wasabia
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From maximorgana
King of the Jungle Gym. For more in a great series on legs and feet, check out maximorgana’s archive this month. Gorgeous work.
From kabuka8000yen
Here are some glimpses of how you are celebrating your Christmas this year, along with a few gifts from Christmases past. Peace and good will to all across the Fotolog world.
From braussie
From vivienneokeefe
From camones
From geogblog
From irishmary
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From carriehs
To all our Fotolog members and friends who celebrate Hanukkah, here’s hoping you are in the middle of a very happy and peaceful Festival of Lights!
From bprism
From metropolitano_mx
From kdunk
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Changes are coming fast and furious in the pages of Fotolog these days. In case you need a scorecard, here’s a brief rundown of the new treats you’re seeing and hopefully enjoying:
* Your profile photo is now at the top left of your Fotolog page, along with an excerpt of your bio. Need to update your profile? There’s a link right there that takes you to your Profile page in the Account section. You can also choose to hide this new display of info if you want.
* You can now add a different colored frame that surrounds your page, along with customizable text and link colors for the Fotolog logo and navigational links. Choose the colors in the new Page Design area of your Account.
* The language preference toggle box is now in the Profile tab of your Account.
* If you’re a Gold Camera member, your stats have moved to your Account pages.
With Flodos™, Fotolog’s new virtual currency, you can vote for your favorite Gold Camera members, and also send Gifts to other Fotolog members when commenting in their Guestbooks. Check out the Gift Store for details.
From esko
Bokeh: “a photographic term referring to the appearance of out-of-focus areas in an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field.” Bokeh was derived, probably within the past decade, from the Japanese term boke (ぼけ), meaning “blurred” or “fuzzy”. With a telephoto lens or a good f/2.0 or 2.8 prime lens you can achieve a great shallow depth of field. But the quality of the resulting bokeh depends on a couple of other factors: the available light, your composition and choice of colors, and most of all, the “spherical abberation” of your lens and the shape—polygonal or closer to circular—of your aperture. Not that enormous octagonal blots are necessarily ugly—it’s all in the eye of the beholder. I’m partial to entirely abstract pics like esko’s above, where shooting directly into lights produces big geometric, multicolored bokeh. Especially in the holiday season.
From cort_sfx5
From rosemary
From nikaj_online
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Looking for a cool Xmas present for your favorite photo fanatic? Check out the new offering from our friends at Photojojo: The Super-Secret Spy Lens. With an accompanying adapter, this baby screws right on to your DSLR lens, whether its a fixed-length or zoom (but not fish-eye or wide-angle). Inside is a high-quality mirror assembly, set at a 45º angle; you simply point your lens straight ahead, but swivel the (somewhat gaping, and not so spyish) “secret cut-out” towards whatever, or whoever, you secretly want to shoot. Click. Candid heaven! The SSSL is about $50, with adapter. Merry Spyshooting!
From jvc
Whether at work or play, Fotolog members and their subjects seem to enjoy a good climb.
From kaleidoscopik
From cala_ithil
From bartspectrum
From tehuel
From yprh
From marcin76
Fotolog members have long struggled with the ethics—and the potential dangers—of taking photographs where some private or governmental organization has decreed such action verboten. With the explosion in popularity of digital cameras and camera-phones, the number of “No Photography” zones has also increased exponentially. The problem is that many of these so-called “official” regulations are arbitrary, and intend to govern true public spaces, where the laws of many nations allow unfettered photography. Add in the fact that governments and private companies everywhere are themselves photographing such spaces 24-7, and we’ve got a legal gray area that covers an ever-growing patch of ground.
The folks at the year-old site Strictly No Photography recognize the tensions involved in this new landscape, and they come down strictly on the side of the lone photographer. The site’s stated mission is “to organize the world’s forbidden visual information and make it universally accessible and useful”; but they also just want to have fun. The photos are organized into categories like Art Museums and Galleries, Govern-
ment, Royalty, Science and Technology, and even War. In and among the mundane shots are enough frissons of anti-establishmentarianism to keep it really interesting. As they say, remember to turn your flash off.
From onmywaytowork
From i_lovesnowb0ardd
Kolkata Metro: Photography Prohibited
by adventuremasala, on Strictly No Photography
no fotos - no Bombs
by bulad, on Strictly No Photography
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From hsjrsafety
Despite the current economic woes, with new leadership coming, Americans have perhaps a bit more to be thankful for this season than in years past. Travel safely, enjoy delicious food, and have fun with friends and family. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
From gi_usa
From fabiao_extreme
From msmelissa
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From cbonney
It was kind of spooky: right in the middle of researching what great new photography books would be at the top of my list for this holiday season, I stumbled across the above post, on cbonney’s page. Christopher, a longtime Fotolog member and excellent photographer, had just self-published his own book of 65 photos from Martha’s Vineyard, the storied island getaway off the Massachusetts coast. Chris created Vineyard Impressions on the very cool site blurb.com, and you can see from this book preview that his volume looks really fantastic.
So that got me thinking: how many other Fotolog members are closet photo-book authors too? A quick search produced a quick answer: a good handful, probably more! Turns out at least 7 other members have recently put together their own photo books on Blurb, showing off their work to great effect, and hopefully selling a few copies to the photo-loving public.
Here’s a brief rundown of the books I found mentioned on Fotolog. Let me know if you find any more. Great work everyone!
Jorb’s first book, titled Momenten, chronicles his time spent on sojourns in South America in 2003-04.
Roll Out the Red Carpet LONDON, by red_carpet, aka independent press photographer Caroline Bonarde Ucci, brings you right up to the edge of some of the flashiest celebrity events. “The pictures were taken from the crowd,” Caroline writes, “therefore there is a different depth than those pictures done by paparazzi and press photographers.”
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From lorisgirl
What was your favorite show ever? How about the most mindblowing gig you were lucky enough to get tickets for? The Stones? Blink 182? Reo Speedwagon? Well, let’s see your proof of purchase. The group log tickets has been around forever, but it’s really taken off in popularity in the last year or so. Here are a dozen stubs, cherished mementos of your rockin’ good times. (Good Times?: Chic, NYC, summer of ‘79!)
From dressed_in_black
From bytepusher
From jvoves
From jihef
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From pesterfran
Pesterfran’s photo today of a couple of donkeys (?) seemingly devoted to each other jump-started the memory banks and got me searching for all the other great shots of kids or kittens or just plain cute pairs who look like they might be Best Friends Forever. Happy to report, there’s no shortage of them on Fotolog.
From lipshot
From afterthoughts26
From candaces
From lockenkopf
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Asako Narahashi, Kawaguchiko, from the series: half awake and half asleep in the water, 2003 © Asako Narahashi, courtesy Galerie Priska Pasquer, Köln
Paris Photo, one of the largest and best assemblages of photographic images and talent in the world, looks like it’s more exciting than ever this year, with 107 exhibitors—more than a third of them new to the fair—showing vintage, modern, and contemporary prints by more than 500 artists. Among the highlights should be the one-person exhibits for Martin Parr, Dayanita Singh, and Alec Soth, and the “Spotlight on Japan,” with works by 130 Japanese photographers from 1848 to the present. Check out lensculture for a great preview of 200 images.
Paris Photo, November 13 to 16, 2008, Carrousel du Louvre, 99 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris, France.
Denis Darzacq, Hyper n°3, 2007 © Courtesy Denis Darzacq et VU’La Galerie, Paris
Laura Letinsky, Untitled #117 (from Hardly More Than Ever), 2007 © Courtesy Yancey Richardson Gallery
Tsukada Mamoru, Identical Twins, 2003 © Courtesy of Tomio Koyama gallery
Adam Jeppesen, DK Orestaden, 2005 © Courtesy Kudlek van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne
Yang Yankang, A disciple spreading Longda, Sichuan, 2006 © Courtesy 798 Photo Gallery
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