This past spring Pravina Shukla asked me what a JPEG file was and what was the best way to interact with them (if that was the format that your fieldwork data was in). I asked on Mahalo and got an answer, but I continue to read around in hopes of finding better answers to her questions and to the many folks who ask me:
I’ve seen these photographs a half dozen times over the years, but every time I see them, I am impressed not only by the richness of the color but also by the view into late nineteenth-century life in Europe. (Obviously, Russia, but I imagine the images of peasant life reflect larger patterns.)
And here’s the header note:
In 1909 a remarkable project was initiated by Russian photographer Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky. His mission was to record – in full and vibrant color – the vast and diverse Russian Empire
Macworld has a review of three iPhone apps that allow you to work with your Flickr account. I don’t see anything that transforms my current workflow, but it’s nice to know they are there. Here’s the review.
OS News has a nice post about how the video “scene” has opened up to amateurs in the same way that photography has — pointing out that much of what resides on Flickr is “amateur” only in that the folks doing it are not getting paid to do it. The skills and techniques and subject matter are the same as professionals. (The contrarian in me wants to argue that the real opportunity here is to change the nature of photography, to make it more interesting than conventional professional photography which itself was modeled on fine art paradigms — I would argue that the blend of fine art photography and photojournalism combined with passion for place is what sets my aunt’s photography, Tika Laudun, apart from others.)