While looking for a story about climate change in North America, photographer Nina Berman stumbled upon a tiny subject with a huge impact. The Mountain Pine Beetle is an 8 mm-long (about 1/3 of an inch) insect that is killing millions of acres of forest across Canada and the northern United States. Continue reading »
Nov 142009
LEICA ANNOUNCES NEW M9 CAMERA – Packed with a full-frame sensor that records 18-megapixels, the new M9 camera will be available at the end of September for around $7,000. Here’s a review.
POLAROID TO AUCTION ITS COLLECTION – The Boston Herald newspaper reports that Polaroid will auction its unique, 16,000-piece collection to help pay creditors during a reorganization of the company. Continue reading »
This image was made on Aug. 30 by a camera on NASA's Terra satellite. The area covered by the image is 245 kilometers (152 miles) wide. Several pyrocumulus clouds, created by the Station Fire, are visible above the smoke plumes rising from the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles in the left-center of the image. Smoke from the Station fire is seen covering the interior valleys along the south side of the San Gabriel Mountains, along with parts of the City of Los Angeles and Orange County, and can be seen drifting for hundreds of kilometers to the east over the Mojave Desert. (Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team)
NASA has released an image of the wildfires burning in southern California. Continue reading »
Sep 012009
The Los Angeles Times has compiled a number of high-resolution, staff photographs of the Station Fire raging in the Angeles National Forest in southern California. Continue reading »
Aug 152009
At night outside the PS bookstore in Brooklyn. By Scott Anger
Rilke poem sits open in the window of the PS bookstore in DUMBO in Brooklyn. I’ve been scouting locations to shoot a scene for a film about Love – with big L – by Deborah Dickson.