Photography

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.

A collection of beautiful pictures of hands.

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.

Some beautiful, others not so much, but still different, or at least photographed in an unusual manner. The duomo in Milan doesn't look that ominous and certainly not that dark in real life.

The Dells are, in a way, the Midwestern version of Niagara Falls: somewhere so overrun with tourist kitsch and unpleasant marketing types running the tourist traps, that one is almost embarassed to admit that the area, itself, is very nice to look at, once one leaves some of the unpleasantness behind. I went looking for images of Witches' Gulch that people had uploaded. This is one I found. I'll do some more looking later.

Nature's hidden passages. Guide to finding these places. Attractive photography of places that sound like they'd be a challenge to visit. Be sure to read the guide carefully before you go, to know what you're getting yourself in for.