HIPCAMP Monday March 11, 2024
For the second straight year, California could be painted with red, blue, purple and golden flowers covering mile upon mile of wildland, thanks to months of torrential rains. (Last year’s so-called superbloom was so vivid, notes USA Today, that it could be seen from space.) “Things are pointing to a good bloom year,” said Dan McCamish, natural resources manager with the Colorado Desert District of the California State Parks. Hipcamp has a guide to when and where to see the bloom.
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The Guardian Monday March 11, 2024
Photographer Keith Barraclough admits that the project he and his wife Kate Lorenz created in 2013 was born by chance. “I was doing a corporate shoot and a guy came in wearing a white shirt. He was a redhead and had this presence about him,” he tells The Guardian. More than 10 years on, Barraclough has photographed more than 500 people for a series he calls “The Redhead Project.” The main criterion is simple: the subjects must be natural redheads. “You [also] have to be willing to share your story,” adds Lorenz,
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THE VERGE Monday March 11, 2024
Nikon is acquiring RED Digital Cinema, the company founded by Jim Jannard (founder of Oakley) and best known for digital cinema cameras including the RED One 4K and V-Raptor X. Exact terms of the deal were not disclosed in Nikon’s press release, notes The Verge. RED will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nikon, which hopes to use the deal to expand into the professional digital cinema camera market, drawing from RED’s “knowledge in cinema cameras, including unique image compression technology and color science.”
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National Portrait Gallery Monday March 11, 2024
Dorothea Lange is known for her Depression-era documentary photography. But the exhibition “Dorothea Lange: Seeing People” at the National Portrait Gallery through March 31 reframes her work “through the lens of portraiture, highlighting her unique ability to discover and reveal the character and resilience of those she photographed.” Featuring some 100 photographs, the exhibition “addresses her innovative approaches to picturing people,” notes the NPG. Her photographs found desperation in face, but also resilience, adds NPR.
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