Leaving trunk.
The Taj Mahal
Category: Photography
One Year In One Image
A creative collage of 3,888 photos:
Delhi’s Azadpur Mandi Vegetable Market
Last week, my friend Paul and I explored Delhi’s Azadpur Mandi vegetable market. We were there gathering information for a food waste research project we’re working on, trying to understand where the food comes from, and what happens to it once it arrives. If you’re interested in learning more about our project, check out our recent blog posts on the MIT Public Service Center website. Azadpur is the largest wholesale vegetable market in all of Asia. It spans 80 acres in North Delhi, and receives over 700 truckloads of produce every day. We learned that the trucks come from all over India, with some trekking 72 hours from the south to drop off their shipments. It was chaotic. It was
Horseshoe Bend
I suppose this lookout doesn’t lend itself to the most original photography composition. Over the summer, I shot this: Then the other day, I saw this on Terry White’s blog:
Lego Street Art
National Park Landscapes
Another high-definition time-lapse landscape video. There seem to be dozens of these going around these days. But many are extraordinarily well done, and this one by Dustin Farrell is no exception:
Experimenting With HDR Photography
I’ve been curious to try experimenting with HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography for a long time now. The technique, which generally requires two or more photos of the same subject to be combined using photography software, can create some pretty surreal results. To create an HDR photo, shots with different exposure levels are taken using a tripod to ensure that each picture has the exact same composition. Then, using software such as photomatix, each of the shots are combined and the “best” pixels from each of the exposures are used. In the overexposed shots the highlights (e.g., sky) will be washed out and white, but the shadows will have a wide range of contrast and color. Similarly, in the underexposed
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Black Bears!
The last park I visited this summer was Great Smoky Mountain National Park. It’s not the biggest park, or the most visually impressive, but it was by far one of my favorites. Filled with green rolling mountains, streams, and thick woods, it was an overwhelmingly refreshing place to visit. I hope to return. While there, we stumbled upon a family of black bears. They unexpectedly emerged from some brush on the side of the road, presumably having just climbed part of the mountainside to the road which zig-zagged its way up the ridge to Clingmans Dome, the highest point in Tennessee. I fumbled to get my camera, and managed to take a bunch of rushed and somewhat blurry shots. This
“A Shaved Llama. That is all.”
Via Grandiloquent Bloviator.