Take that, coronavirus! He survived the Battle of Normandy. And now, at age 97, former war and celebrity photographer Tony Vaccaro beat back a bout with COVID-19, the Associated Press reports. The Queens-based Vaccaro, the subject of an HBO documentary on his fabled life, credits his longevity to determination, “blind luck, red wine.” Vaccaro’s work, which hangs in the New York’s Met and at the Pompidou Center in Paris, ranges from wartime images to portraits of Sophia Loren, John F. Kennedy, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Pablo Picasso.
Street View photography: Creative Director Yousuke Ozawa wanted to take a vacation, but he couldn’t. So he started taking “digital vacations” through Google Maps, and capturing Street View travel photography. He adjusts color and contrasts and titles each image, reveals where it was taken, and links to the exact Google Street View location before putting them on his Tumblr blog. “In between Zoom calls, I go on Google Maps as if I’m on vacation with a camera,” Ozawa tells PetaPixel. “I started to see really interesting things captured by Google. With interesting light, environment and body expressions. Those three elements, combined together, told an interesting story.” See a few images from the collection here.
Big Rembrandt: Last summer in Amsterdam, your humble curator’s view of the Dutch master’s painting The Night Watch was interrupted by scaffolding and a 100-megapixel, medium format Hasselblad H6D-400c. Now you can see what that camera in the museum was up to—a 45 gigapixel image from 528 stitched-together photographs. “The huge image file allows researchers to zoom into the painting to examine incredibly fine details,” Fstoppers reports, “giving insights into how the aging process is having an effect.” We asked, you answered: Joel Sartore's animal photos prompted us to ask readers about their favorite endangered animal. We got nearly 100 responses from all over the world, including photos of the red-shanked douc langur, a coastal tailed frog, and a very strange African shoebill (which can stand up to 5 foot high). Thanks! |
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