This is an amazing set of photos. These make me sad that my kids aren’t growing up in an era with such an exciting space program. Of note, I was born the day this photo was taken. [via Shawn Blanc]
By Stephen Hackett
Category Archives: Photography
Tap to Focus
I’ve launched a new side project, named Tap to Focus. It’s a tumblelog full of short, hopefully adorable — or at least odd — videos shot with my iPhone 4. Sadly, Tumblr’s video player is Flash only on the desktop. Sorry about that. See update.
Photoshop in Real Life
I wonder if this version will crash when trying to apply layer masks… [via reddit]
Mississippi River Flooding
Good times here in the South.
The Stormy South
Prayers are going out to the people who survived this terrible destruction.
Chernobyl Tours, 25 Years After Accident
Jim Heintz, for the Associated Press: But Chernobyl is in fact still a dangerous place, as the rules for visitors make clear. Don’t touch any structures or vegetation, don’t sit on the ground or even put your camera tripod there, don’t take any item out of the zone, don’t eat outdoors. Guides make sure the [...]
On Detroit’s Decline
These photos over at The Huffington Post look like something out of a zombie movie.
Inky Truck Crash
This is like a normal truck wreck, on acid.
On iPhone Photos, and Moving Foward
Art Terry, a professor at the University of Memphis with over 50 years experience in photography, on Damon Winter of the New York Times winning third place in the annual “Pictures of the Year” competition with a photo shot with an iPhone and the app Hipstamatic: Photography is about seeing, recording the world around you [...]
Hello, Verizon iPhone
It feels good to be back in the fold.
