Tag: photography

Photo by Joe WilcoxMar 17, 20157:20 am

Flickr a Day 76: ‘Common Green Lacewing’

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Surely, this isn’t the green photo you expected. But I couldn’t resist this wonderful closeup (e.g., Macro shot) taken with little more than a digital compact—Canon PowerShot SX40 HS, which zooms from 24-840mm. Yikes! Meet the lacewing, one of my favorite insects growing up in Northern Maine.

Martin Cooper, who joined Flickr in February 2013, makes a photographic study of the fungi, fauna, and bugs of Christchurch Park in Ipswich, United Kingdom. He shot today’s selection on March 12, 2014. Vitals: f/8, ISO 100, 1/200 sec, f/42.4mm.

Photo by Joe WilcoxMar 16, 20156:51 am

Flickr a Day 75: ‘Matera — the Old Town’

Today’s selection steps back from the parade of people to urban photography. Michele Ursino shot self-titled “Matera—the Old Town” on Sept. 16, 2014, using Nikon D7000 and 11-16mm f/2.8 lens. Vitals: f/4.5, ISO 100, 1/200 […]

Photo by Joe WilcoxMar 15, 20157:14 am

Flickr a Day 74: ‘Student’

Chilean Francisco Osorio describes himself as a “social anthropologist very interested in photography since childhood. I remember my father bringing home a book to learn how to make photographs, which I read from cover to […]

Photo by Joe WilcoxMar 14, 20157:10 am

Flickr a Day 73: ‘OMG!’

Reviewing the last few days of selections, I see that the subjects are all older. We can’t have that! I picked today’s pic mainly for staging. The umbrellas are perfect additions, and what’s not to […]

Photo by Joe WilcoxMar 13, 20157:12 am

Flickr a Day 72: ‘Going That Way’

For this second Friday the 13th of 2015, Juan Carlos Gonzalez is your lucky charm. His Flickr stream is a magnificent presentation of color and composition. Many of the photos seem to leap off the […]

Photo by Joe WilcoxMar 12, 20156:50 am

Flickr a Day 71: ‘Silence & Serenity’

Belgian Lie—”pronounced as ‘ee’”, she says—distinguishes her photographic art by a distinctive characteristic: Red. She uses the color to accent and punctuate her images. If you spend time browsing none of the other photographers’ photostreams […]

Photo by Joe WilcoxMar 11, 20157:27 am

Flickr a Day 70: ‘Reading Light’

Lighting is today’s selection’s winning quality. Illumination behind the subject, enveloped by darkness all around, creates cozy feeling. Don’t you just want to grab a book and join him? Carol Blyberg shot self-titled “Reading Light” […]

Photo by Joe WilcoxMar 10, 20156:49 am

Flickr a Day 69: ‘Breaking the Silence’

The intensity exploding from the photographs of Isengardt can’t be ignored, and it draws in and envelopes you. Today’s selection is among his tamest, but I’m not alone fancying it. The image is his Flickr banner. Color and mood make self-titled “Breaking the silence”. Yeah, I can almost hear that car punching through the fog.

Bond is a name. You don’t need to hear the James. I have to say the same of Isengardt, whose name is a mystery to me. But not his equipment. He used the Canon EOS 550D to shoot this photo, on Sept. 30, 2012.

Photo by Joe WilcoxMar 9, 20157:12 am

Flickr a Day 68: ‘Elliott Erwitt Revisité’

Yesterday’s featured photographer, Stefano Corso, cites Elliot Erwitt as one of his influences. So I searched Flickr for the street shooter, expecting not to find him—and I didn’t. But self-titled “Elliott Erwitt Revisité”, by Jean François, caught my attention. […]

Photo by Joe WilcoxMar 8, 20157:35 am

Flickr a Day 67: ‘Dresden Symphony’

The silhouette strongly describes the street photography of Stefano Corso, but something more. The “peculiar point of view always has a certain surreal, oniric quality, properly balanced by the irony of the pictures’ titles. Selected […]

Photo by Joe WilcoxMar 7, 20157:14 am

Flickr a Day 66: ‘Noisy Silence’

Today’s selection is the second of a trio of photos where a person sets the scene rather than is the dominant subject. Like the first, the individual is back to the shooter and moving away. […]

Photo by Joe WilcoxMar 6, 20157:39 am

Flickr a Day 65: ‘Slippery Slope’

Landscapes rarely contrast so strongly as Day 64’s Northern Maine potato field and this New Zealand mountain view. Beam me up, Mr. Scott, and down to Kiwi. The photographer, who goes simply by Vern, is […]