Example: Another disassembled thing!

I found this photo while browsing Tumblr a few days ago, and it reminded me of the photos Leeanne posted about disassembled cameras and other machinery. An assembled guitar looks so simple from the outside- how many parts could there really be?- but the disassembled photo shows that a guitar like this is much more complicated internally than its appearance would suggest.

I personally am very interested in how things fit together to make a cohesive, working device, and so photos like these are very cool for me.

http://thingsorganizedneatly.tumblr.com/post/4287644843/submission-this-is-a-guitar-while-i-was-fixing

A Light on the People of Western Sahara

Andrew McConnell photographed Sahrawi people from Western Sahara in the moonlight to try to get a new perspective on these people. These photographs, as a result, are dramatic and interesting. I was impressed by the way he took a traditional subject, portraiture, and changed it into something new and different that adds depth to the photos. Here are some of my favorites:

The article is here

Point and Shoot Cameras: A Dead Technology?

Mr. Z and I were talking earlier this month about the progression of photography and how the more smart phones that are being introduced and used by the general public, the less the need for point and shoot cameras. Omnivision has now said that they will be introducing a camera to be in a phone with 12.6 megapixels, about twice the amount of my Nikon D50 from 2007, and can shoot 15 frames a second, and to top it all off will be able to shoot video in 1080p. It may be introduced in the iPhone 5. Here is an article describing it's release.

Every 15 Minutes...

Although now the true statistic is approximately every 48 minutes, our school participated in a drunk driving prevention program, a simulation of a drunk driving accident. Everything from a simulated car crash, to obituaries and a funeral procession are held at our school every 4 years. During the accident simulation, I photographed the event from the side. It wasn't the most pleasant photographing experience, but an an experience none the less. Luckily I used a telephoto lens, which enabled me to get some up close shots, from a distance.