Content tagged with “photography”

“This is a lovely, comprehensive biography of one of the greatest thinkers in history. This is one of the rare biographies I read of someone who lived so long ago that exact records are not available. There is no video footage of Da Vinci’s life. There are no photographs of him. No newspapers quoted…”

“ This was the predecessor to the modern photograph. It dated from the 1840s and 1950s, when it was super-ceded by better methods. Daguerreotypes are the classic ‘old style’ of photograph, which appear to be shot through a sepia or silver filter. ”

“ A tortoise living on a remote island is so old there are pictures of him 136 years apart. ”

“ A photo gallery and description of how the mothballed USS Kitty Hawk gets from Washington state to a salvage yard on the Texas coast. ”

“ In the middle of the Great Smoky Mountains sits a train that’s not technically abandoned, but will likely never move again. ”

“ A guy plays with Photoshop’s new AI filters, and – while laughing hysterically – shows that Photoshop can estimate and apply how emotions might appear in a picture. ”

“ A father never knew for sure what happened to his firefighter son on 9/11. In 2010, they stumbled on the last picture ever taken of him, running towards the towers. ”

“ A long exploration of an abandoned agri-chemical research facility. It’s exactly like something out of a video game. ”

“ A photographer on a game reserve in South Africa witnesses a lion die of old age. ”

“ Some pictures of an abandoned train car used as an impromptu covered bridge somewhere in Georgia (the caucus, not the state). ”

“ An AI researcher considers a single image and notes all the things a computer would have to understand to perceive the image the same way humans do. ”

“ The size difference demonstrated between a Soviet-era Mil Mi-26 heavy transport helicopter and a more common passenger helicopter. ”

“ In late 2018, a photographer spontaneously captured a picture of Air Force One over the UK. He posted it to social media, and unwittingly revealed a secret presidential trip to Iraq. ”