All photos from the group log cameras. Top row, l. to r.: ojos_de_camara, ddarko, inverdades. Bottom row, l. to r.: nofuelabeige, las_fotos_hablan, yaz_hr.
How much do you love your camera? Or more precisely, if you’re like me and many of our fellow Fotolog fanatics, your menagerie of digital and analog image-making devices. It’s kind of amazing how many of us actually take the time to take pictures of our cameras. And of course, the best place to post them is the group log cameras. Nearly every kind of still-image recording device can be found here, although there seems to be a lot more love for old-school classics than for today’s cookie-cutter point-and-shoots and phone-cams. But remember, “NO faces, NO mirrors, NO ego shots.” The cameras admin warns, “I’ll delete your pic if your face appears more than the camera itself!” This is all about the equipment. Let’s see yours.
From simmer
From lucien
From renattothiele
From nild
From joanaseixas
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From rodrigov, on safety_man
He’s everywhere you look: Safety Man, the International Ambassador of Caution and Common Sense! Only sometimes… you can’t exactly figure out what he’s trying to tell you. The folks at the group log safety_man are dedicated to bringing you the best—and funniest—sightings of “that generic everyman (or woman or child) always trying to save you from getting maimed, mutilated or dismembered.” Check out these great signs of the times from safety_man.
From liuscaballero
From babawobble
 From cassiopeia
From black16
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From samzar on agx
In today’s supersaturated, megapixel-happy world of digital imagery, photographers who shoot on black-and-white film are a species nearly as endangered as the black rhino. Any effort to support this once ubiquitous mode of picture-making gets a big thumbs up from us. Kudos, then, to the Fotolog group agx, founded a little over a year ago by ewah11, a New York-based photographer who, among many other subjects, has recently photographed Easter celebrations and rituals around the world. AgX is the chemical notation for silver halide, the component of film emulsion that reacts with photons of light to eventually produce developed images. Agx is unapologetically for “all black and white film photographers, the hold outs who talk about grain, developers, stop baths, and fixer, graded papers, and split contrast filter adjustments.” But you don’t have to be as crazy about B&W as these die-hard shooters to enjoy the fruits of their obsessions. Here’s a dozen-pic sampler of the kind of thoughtful and provocative work to be found on agx.
(Relatedly: check out the beautiful ode to the iconic M Series Leica by Anthony Lane in The New Yorker this week.)
From drugfrog
From escuchameunavez
From ewah11
From ewah11
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From nofuelabeige (left) and 15×15 (right), on lomography_love.
It’s only a month old, but the kids over at lomography_love are having a blast. This group log, founded by platre, is a great place to post your lomo pics, but they’re openhearted, and are very happy when you post most any kind of film- or paper-based imagery: Lomo fisheye, Colorsplash, Horizon, and Action Sampler quads, Oktomat grids, cross-processed Holgas, homemade pinhole shots, Lubitel and Seagull prints. Here’s a taste of what’s going on. It’s not just for devotees—dust off that plastic box on the shelf and get shooting!
From platre
Holga, cross-processed
From kachacha
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Clockwise from top left: envagyok, oriol_n, gemma, mgwvt, and mashi_ito.
We are so hard-wired to anthropomorphize our natural and man-made environments that, walking alone down an empty street, through a peaceful forest, or along a pristine seashore, we never fail to see “human” faces—in building facades, fire hydrants, cobblestones, tree bark, sea foam, and of course, rocky outcroppings. How convenient then that we have someplace to document our sightings: face2face, one of the earliest, and still one of the most satisfying, group logs on Fotolog. In the word of founder jimwich, this is the place for your “*found* faces only. No staged, drawn, or purposely illustrated/printed faces…. Let’s find all the faces in the world!”
And it is as fun as it sounds. Staged or drawn faces are out, but sometimes you come across a natural alignment of objects in your kitchen or bathroom that just pops out at you, like this uber-cute post from mashi_ito :P
Here’s a portrait gallery of some of f2f’s most smile-inducing found faces. Look around—you’re being watched!
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From nesmanpro (left) and maslon (right).
Silhouettes are easy and fun and yeah, they can be kinda cliché. But for the most part, the Fotologgers who’ve posted to the group log silhouette, founded early on by the wonderful meltoledo, avoid the tired and silly stuff, offering instead a range of interesting and provocative imagery. Here’s a quick pick of some of the best.
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From offshore, on berliner_fenster
One of the nicest lesser-known group logs is berliner_fenster, or Berlin windows, administered by offshore. Many of the shots uploaded to berliner are fine views of interesting buildings, new and old alike, and are provocative in the way they force one to think both about how our present edifices reflect our past—often literally—and about the central role architecture plays in shaping the identity of the modern metropolis. And yeah, they’re cool-looking. And sometimes funny. Take a look.
From mentira2
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Gimme an A! Gimme an L! Gimme a P! Etcetera. Pidge’s Project: Alphabet was the very first Fotolog group, way before there were group upload links, established groups, or even daily upload limits! You had to email her for the password, and sign in to /alphabet to upload. Whoa. It took off immediately, because it created an instant sense of community and was wicked fun.
The whole idea was to find interesting, cool, and beautiful letters both in the natural world and the man-made environment around you, but not just fall back on typography from signs (much of which is cool in its own right). Alphabet is still going strong now, but looking back on its heyday, so many of the contributions were gorgeous and really imaginative that I thought it was worth sharing some of them again here. Let’s hear it for Alphabet, Godmother of Fotolog Groups!
Letters above: A, ignatz_mouse; B, alcyone; C, luisacortesao; X, rictus; Y, eliahu; Z, hihihi; T, fezmonkey; G, zenzenok; I, jvc; F, ignatz_mouse
Pidge always led the way with great catches:
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“You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.” — Amelia Earhart
The first Fotolog Group of the Week is man_in_flight, where you can see and post all sorts of flying machines, from jumbo jet airliners and WWII fighters to stunt-performing biplanes and elegant gliders. The beautiful craft above is a reproduction of the 14bis, designed and built by the great Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont. 100 years ago today in a field in Paris, Santos-Dumont piloted the 14bis a distance of 60 meters—the first flight of a heavier-than-air craft in Europe, proving that such an aeroplane could take off from the ground by its own means. The Wright Brothers’ flights several years earlier at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and in Ohio had used assistance such as a stiff headwind, launch rails, and a catapult. But outside of Brazil and France, Santos-Dumont’s reputation suffers unfairly—he was indeed one of the true fathers of aviation.
Photo by fabbrasil, who has many more flying images and details on the history of flight.
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