Tag Archives: photography

Photographer Joe Hepworth

This afternoon Father Tony and I dropped in at the 14th biennial Fire Island Pines Art Show, where my pal (and former NYC Eagle bartender) Joe Hepworth was showing some of his photography.

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NASA’s Photo Of The Day

NASA explains today’s photo: The Great Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda (aka M31), a mere 2.5 million light-years distant, is the closest large spiral to our own Milky Way. Andromeda is visible to the unaided eye as a small, faint, fuzzy patch, but because its surface brightness is so low, casual skygazers can’t appreciate the galaxy’s impressive extent in planet Earth’s …

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Photo Of The Day: The Earth From Saturn

Sky News reports: The Cassini spacecraft has captured a rare image of Earth taken hundreds of millions of miles away from the outer Solar System. The picture was captured on July 19 by the probe’s wide-angle camera from a distance of 900 million miles. Magnifying the image five times reveals not only the Earth but also the Moon, a fainter …

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Photo Of The Day

That’s (sort of) the view from atop the world’s tallest building, Dubai’s 160-story Burj Khalifa. Gizmodo has the deets on how the photo was made. By the way, it can cost up to $100 to visit the observation deck.  Here are some of the records the building has set.

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French Olympians Pose As “Imaginary Couple” For Anti-Homophobia Campaign

Pink News reports: Two male French Olympic swimmers have posed in an intimate shot as an “imaginary couple”, as part of a campaign to tackle homophobia, which also features images of Eva Longoria and Lara Fabian. Florent Manaudou and Frédérick Bousquet, posed in the photo, taken by Olivier Ciappa, who also started the campaign. The project is called “imaginary couples”, …

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Window To Window

Residents of a luxury Tribeca building are angry about an art gallery’s exhibition of photos taken from an apartment across the street. From his second-floor apartment across the street, artist Arne Svenson secretly took photos of his neighbors through their oversized windows as they engaged in such personal things as bending over cleaning, taking naps and carrying sleeping kids to …

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NYC From The Space Station

Another photo from Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. I’m at the yellow dot.

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Morning In NYC From Space

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield tweeted the above photo from the International Space Station. (Via Gothamist)

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Best Selfie Ever

(Via Buzzfeed Andrew)

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Manhattan Panorama

From D-Photo: The winners of this year’s Epson International Photographic Pano Awards, the only international competition dedicated to the art of panoramic photography, have been announced – D-Photo is happy to present a gallery of the winners. The competition comprises both Open and Amateur sections, each divided into Nature and Build Environment categories – there is also a special VR/360 …

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National Geographic’s Photo Of 2012

National Geographic has announced the winners in their annual photography contest. The photo above took the grand prize; more are at the link.

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Photo Of The Year?

Discuss.

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On The Ethics Of Journalism

Yesterday the New York Post published a terrifying full-page front cover photo of a man who had just been pushed onto the subway tracks by an apparently mentally ill person. In the photo, the downtown-bound Q train is about twenty feet away from the victim, who was killed instantly a moment later. The Post has since come under widespread criticism …

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Buzzfeed Posts 2012’s Top Photos

Today Buzzfeed posted 45 photos in a recap titled “The Most Powerful Images Of 2012.” The compilation, which runs the gamut from horrifying to mournful to hopeful, includes two LGBT-related images, both of which appeared on JMG earlier this year. In the top photo, masked assailants stomp a Ukrainian gay rights activist. In the second, two Maryland women get engaged …

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The Big Picture

The Boston Globe has devoted its regular Big Picture feature to numerous photos of what people are facing in the wake of Sandy. The UK’s Daily Mail has many photos as well.

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Not Fred With Tires

Annie Liebovitz photographed Tim Tebow for Vogue. I’m reminded of Herb Ritts’ iconic series from the 80s, Fred With Tires.

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NYT Reports On Bear Culture

The New York Times has posted a lengthy slideshow from photographer Alan Charlesworth’s look at bear culture. Peter Moskowitz writes: Mainstream culture tends to depict gay men as either comically effeminate, or supersculpted and image conscious. Mr. Charlesworth had a hard time relating, or being attracted to, those kinds of images. He said that while he questioned his sexuality in …

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Famous Album Covers On Location

Buzzfeed has posted a compilation of famous album covers overlaid on their present-day Manhattan locations. The West Side Story soundtrack image was shot in Hell’s Kitchen. KISS posed on the corner of 23rd and Eighth in Chelsea. More here. Remember album covers? Weren’t they great?

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The Most Popular Image In Teabagistan

The above is being gleefully posted everywhere this week.

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Extreme Whale Watching

Source. (Via Towleroad)

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