Deadline Monday August 15, 2022
Tom Wright, whose career embraced photography of many rock greats and time spent as a tour manager for The Who and other major acts, has died at age 78, notes Deadline. Wright’s “compelling and intimate photographs of performers, audiences, and concert venues provide a true insider’s perspective into the history of rock music from the 1960s to the 1990s,” noted Don Carleton, executive director of the Briscoe Center for American History. Wright named the University of Texas center as the repository for his archive of more than 120,000 photographs. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Monday August 15, 2022
“When I met Ida Lennestål for a plunge on a cold January day, she was pulling an ax from her car and switching into warmer boots,” writes photographer Greta Rybus at The New York Times. The axe was for chipping away at an opening in the ice covering frozen pond near her home in Georgetown, Maine. Rybus documented a group of women who gather for ice-water dips and follow-up sauna time. She described the experience in a separate behind-the-scenes article. Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Monday August 15, 2022
Reference mics can be a vital tool for capturing high-quality audio: They allow you to capture the uncolored sound with a flat response and almost complete transparency to let you measure the acoustic characteristics of the room in which you’re recording. They can also be expensive. But, notes DIY Photography, GitHub user loudifier designed his own and made it open source. The OpenRefMic promises a low-cost with a high performance that “meets or exceeds the performance of professional reference microphones,” says DIYP. Read the full Story >>
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Monday August 15, 2022
Last summer, photographer Reuben Wu experienced a stark contrast of modern and prehistoric, as he used drones and artificial light to photograph Stonehenge, one of the best-known prehistoric monuments, notes National Geographic. Wu “wanted to reimagine the classic landscape photograph of Stonehenge and force viewers to really think about the grand structure. He argues that since it’s so familiar to most people, they tend to dismiss it as something ordinary,” adds Nat. Geo. Read the full Story >>
