Comments on: Interesting photos wanted!

Question: Interesting photos wanted!

sixcolors — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:30:38 -0800

Nonlamephotopraphyfilter: What are some websites, books, and/or magazines that have some neat photos?

Flickr pools and sets, count too. :)

By: asockpuppet

asockpuppet — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:33:53 -0800

Strobist. Detailed technical instruction on lighting.

By: sixcolors

sixcolors — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:34:53 -0800

Oh oh, I didn't copy and paste this part from MW...

I'm really tired of seeing millions of photos of mountains, sunsets, country sides, lakes, forests, wildlife, babies, and dogs! Or anything else that screams "middle America". I don't give a shit about that stuff. I see those things everyday! Same ol', lame ol'.

Unfortunately, that's like 90% of what I see on websites and in magazines. I'd rather see something like chicks with guns, legos giving blowjobs, weddings and earthquakes, lawn art, dead people in parking lots, and places where we aren't supposed to go. Anything that arouses emotion, besides boredom and frustration.

By: asockpuppet

asockpuppet — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:39:39 -0800

So it isn't really about photography then, is it? The question is 'show me cool things'.

By: runningwithscissors

runningwithscissors — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:42:17 -0800

The Big Picture offers both: technically good photos of some pretty cool stuff.

By: sixcolors

sixcolors — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:43:48 -0800

And, no it doesn't have to be high-brow "fine art" photography...it can be pictures of anything that would capture most people's attention. I don't see what the problem is with that.

By: jmnugent

jmnugent — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:54:31 -0800

FFFFOUND! is one of my daily reads. I don't know if its "exactly" what you're looking for (it sometimes leans a little to far into design/typography for my tastes) but its definitely not "typical".

By: carsonb

carsonb — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:02:29 -0800

If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,
There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
growabrain's quip (from his MeFi post):
Thomas Sutpen is one of Faulkner's most complex and intriguing characters. His blog, If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger, there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats includes nostalgic collections of rare photographs in serial form. Samples: They Were Collaborators (298*) Great Con Artists of the 20th Century (14) Vietnam - Dramatis Personae (7) A is for Arbus (37) Collect 'em All (26) The Golden Age of Prurience (37) Poets are both clean and warm (18). Many wonderful others on the sidebar.
* Post from 2007; these numbers indicating how many posts are in a given category are outdated.

I posted The Nocturnes Gallery to MeFi a while back. Photography at night.

Looking into communities surrounding niche photography can be fruitful. Polaroid and Lomography being two of my favorites.

By: krautland

krautland — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:14:28 -0800

pixdaus or b3ta.

By: tybstar

tybstar — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:41:47 -0800

I've been enjoying a lot of the exhibits on Photography Served.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:42:00 -0800

La Pura Vida Flickr pool.

By: philomathoholic

philomathoholic — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:47:30 -0800

Conscientious is the fine art blog where I'm pretty sure I first saw the chicks with guns and the weddings/earthquakes pictures.

By: querty

querty — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:12:06 -0800

Flak Photo

By: pokermonk

pokermonk — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:31:47 -0800

http://www.metafilter.com/tags/photography?

Narrow to taste by adding additional tags.

By: V-Turn

V-Turn — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:16:21 -0800

ecrinsdelumiere.com has wonderful shots of mountains.

By: msbrauer

msbrauer — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:02:21 -0800

Quite a few of the suggestions above focus on photography as a technique rather that photography as a means of expression. You want photojournalism; interesting, weird, sad, inspiring stories distilled to their visual and emotional essence. I spend a lot of time looking at photojournalism online. Best to go to the source, which means agencies, photographer sites, online magazines, and annual contests. You'll find bigger edits of stories (more pictures, cohesive narrative, etc.) through those rather than on the printed page or on many print publication websites.

I could spend all day looking at any single one of these links: Magnum Photos (the archive goes back about 70 years or so; many, many famous pictures that you already know are contained within), Vii, Agence Vu, Oculi, Noor, Time Magazine's photo essays, World Press Photo 2008 results, Pictures of the Year 2008 results (currently being judged; you can watch the judging live online from a link on the front page of the contest), Best of Photojournalism annual results (2009 results will be released in a month), Atlanta Photojournalism Competition 2008 results, Burn Magazine, Ahorn Magazine (not photojournalism), Blue Eyes Magazine, Dispatches Magazine (one of the best; only 3 issues (America, Iraq, and Russia, I believe), and each blows me away).

With most of the above, if you see something you like, type the photographer's name into google and you'll find their website which will contain much more inspiring work.

By: olddogeyes

olddogeyes — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:57:33 -0800

My favorite is "Things You Wouldn't Know If We Didn't Blog It" which has tons of interesting stuff daily!

By: Mike1024

Mike1024 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:11:16 -0800

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures