Images seen through the Hubble telescope

Far from perfect: The composition of the page itself needs work and having larger versions of the images available would be nice. But we do get to have fun watching the photographer emphasize the fact that this is both a forest and a marine environment, as he shoots his colorful (but not garish) images through the ripples.

No, this isn't a duplicate listing. The artist mentioned in the last bookmark recently finished his journal at Blogger, which he seems to be leaving in place (let us hope he will), and continuing in a new location, on his own website. Same style, more of less - it is a continuation - but new photos and new entries are seen, so there is some point to visiting both sites.

Stream of consciousness journal in which the author takes uise through his day and what he saw. One has the photo stacking issue one saw on a previous bookmark so, visually, the individual shots aren't immediately seen to their best advantage, but Koller allow the Blogger default option to do its work and link the images on his blog to the larger scale versions in storage, and there is a connection between the images, so we gain something at the same moment we lose something else. Reliably beautiful work, as far as the subject matter will allow, but don't try visiting this blog without broadband. The density of images on the page will create major downloading issues.

I like a lot of the photography (done in black and white in locations around the world), but wasn't pleased with the presentation - all of the photos on one page, without commentary or even something other than a plain white photo, and practically no spaces between the photos, which appear in a long stack. Some of this is nice work, and deserves to be savored, not gulped down like one in a stack of potato chips, which is what the presentation is encouraging when part of the next image is always onscreen.

According to the rules - "Photographer and the subject should be active participants in the construction of the situation" Ie. staged shots, taken outdoors.

A group of photos taken in two places that Chicagoans find convenient, when they escape from the winter: largish domed gardens, a little big to just be called "greenhouses"; these places have full grown trees living inside of them. Emphasis, chosen by those submitting, seems to have been on shots taken very close in - "macros".

Images enhanced by the presence of reflecting surfaces in them - water, usually; mirror surfaces in a few, the Bean ("Cloud Gate") in Chicago making an appearance in one of the shots. In some, the orientation of the camera is changed to briefly create a confusion between object and reflection, with pleasantly surreal results.

Civil engineering student shows a variety of structures out of pennies - just pennies - held together by nothing more than gravity and friction, built by himself and others who sent in their pictures.

Photoessay. How the army corp of engineers hid an aircraft factory during World War Two.

Photos from an artist I mention on my microblog, who works in stained glass. No glass in this stream, as far as I can see, but a number of landscapes.

Deep blue skies, clear water, intense colors and islands, many islands in the middle of the Pacific. Photos from a student's trip.

Images of Cairo, in Egypt.

Images of a temple in Egypt, from the same photographer who took the images in Cairo you saw in my previous bookmark

Just a photo. The style of this church in Wisconsin is a very old one, going back to Scandinavia (esp. Norway), possibly having been based on the pre-Christian architecture of the region, given the antiquity of some of the remaining stavkirchen. This one, however, was built the inhabitants of an island in Lake Michigan that saw a large influx of immigrants from Norway, who would seem to have brought their culture with. It is said to be a popular site for weddings.

Suggestions for those wishing to take memorable shots. I can see some merit in these, but sometimes the author seems to push the results to an extreme. Doesn't mannerism, eventually, become a cliche in its own right?

I liked some of these.

More stop action pictures of fluid in motion. These are a little more delicately and less dramatically done than the last batch, with more exploration of color

Splashes frozen in time, becoming crystal sculptures.

Icebergs that are colored like candy.