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Turning Tides: 10-Mile Park to Protect NYC from Flooding
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May
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ]
Designed to shield the exposed edges of Lower Manhattan from increasingly-disastrous storms, this impressive system of parks and other public spaces is also designed to serve the everyday needs of New York citizens.
Rising sea levels and increased flood frequencies may eventually are the driving threat behind this competition entry. Big U, an urban design scheme authored by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and others, is one of a set of submissions to Rebuild by Design, a competition from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This plan calls for a series of discrete interventions that together form a protective buffer.
Jeremy Siegel, one of the project leads, elaborates: “Because they all work individually, you end up with a system that’s resilient. If you have a breach in one area, it’s localized and you can organize evacuation into neighboring compartments. It’s a little bit like the hull of a ship, where you’ve got different segments, and breaching one area doesn’t necessarily mean that the whole system fails.”
One of the advantages of this segmentation is the ability to build in sections, breaking a massive construction project down into discrete steps that can be implemented sequentially for budgeting and other pragmatic reasons. Each area features its own personality and amenities, including aquariums, swimming pools, walking paths and seasonal markets.
Learning local lessons from Hurricane Sandy (and national ones from the likes of Katrina), the architecture teams participating in the competition sought to address social as well as engineering needs. Located anywhere else and their ambitious plans might sound far fetched, but New York City is already home to Central Park and The High Line.
Siegel notes that, particularly in a place like NYC, “If you’re going to be investing so much money into an infrastructure for resiliency–that’s going to be sitting along one of the most spectacular coastlines in the world–there’s a huge opportunity there to also improve civic infrastructure, so it can protect the city, but also become a platform for civic life.” As for other proposed schemes, you can see and read more about the finalists and (eventual) winners at Rebuild by Design.
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The Contest Winners of the Tamron Lenses Are…
29
May
Tamron SP-17-50MM F/2.8 Di II VC
Tamron 18-270 Di II VC PZD
Tamron SP 70-300 Di VC USD
A HUGE Thank You to everyone who entered our recent competition to win one of three lenses from our friends at Tamron.
The response was absolutely AMAZING with over 1,300 entries! In fact, it was so great that we here at Digital Photography School decided to add a new category of winners – Honorable Mentions – and provide each Honoree with a dPS eBook of their choice. But now, on to the winners.
Here are the 3 winners of the competition:
- Caleb Ward wins the Tamron SP-17-50MM F/2.8 Di II VC
- EthanKPhotography wins the Tamron 18-270 Di II VC PZD
- Patrick Kulwicki wins the Tamron SP 70-300 Di VC USD
A note to each of our winners:
Caleb, we value your service and do hope that you can and will change the lives of those in need.
Ethan, keep up the great work, and we also hope that you will become a professional photographer.
Patrick, hopefully, this is the beginning of much good luck.
Honorable Mentions:
Bartosz Szkatula, Juli Vz, Igor Danajlovski, Dylan Balagtas, Todd Carpenter, Joseph MacDonald, Randi Willett, Aniqe, Henry Greyner, Jennie Hallock, Bram Smits, Ioan Stoev, Aly Wonderland, Michelle F and Dana.
On a side note: Alison Hopkins, we hope you’ll take this little mention as a sign and follow your dreams.
We were all thrilled with the entries – you tugged at our heartstring, made us laugh, made us smile, but most importantly, you made us keep wanting to do more of what we are doing; providing you quality information and guidance to become a better photographer. We were so pleased to see that you came from every part of the world, young adults to grandparents, and everyone in between. Thank you all for your entries.
Now, for those of you that didn’t win, Tamron has invited ALL dPS readers to download their new eBook series! You can find those HERE.
For all of you residing in the USA, when you do purchase your next select Tamron Lens, please make sure to take advantage of the Tamron Rebate. Find additional information HERE.
*Current offers end June 30, 2014. US RESIDENTS ONLY.
Winners will be emailed with details of how to collect their prize. Please make sure to look for our email. Thanks you again for all the wonderful submissions and to Tamron for sponsoring this competition.
The post The Contest Winners of the Tamron Lenses Are… by Darlene Hildebrandt appeared first on Digital Photography School.
PURE WHITE With Yannick Wolff
29
May
Yannick Wolff returns to FashionPhotographyBlog.com with a stunningly gorgeous shoot with model, Agneta Kuhne, entitled “PURE WHITE“. In this angelic series, Yannick shows, yet again, another side of his photographic versatility depicting clear fashion, but also both the strength and vulnerability of the model in his photos.
The inspiration behind PURE WHITE was the collaboration between the photographer and Tina Hoffmann, the make-up artist, Yannick explained his process, “We thought about a new fashion editorial story. We had searched for several pictures to create our own mood board. The whole styling was done by Tina herself and I found a great location to shoot in.”
When asked about how this fashion series differs from his previous shoots Yannick pointed out that the contrast between the styling and the setting with the natural light streaming in makes this editorial shoot so enchanting, “I think this golden, warm color tone and the contrast from these pure white clothes to the quite industrial location creates a special flair with what is going on through the whole series.”
Based on what Yannick shared with me the shoot came together well, it was like as though it was meant to be. Agneta Kuhne, the model, was a friend of a friend of Yannick‘s who also was a photographer, and assembling the team after being on many shoots together was relatively simple he explained “That’s quite easy, in general, because over time you create your own pool of connections of make up artists, stylists and assistants, but for this shoot, Tina Hoffmann, asked me if I´m interested in a photo shoot like this, so we came together for this project.”
It seemed like the only hardest part of the shoot was finding the perfect location and it’s a common issue for Yannick on his shoots as he expressed that “Finding good locations is one of the hardest things for me – especially in Germany it is very hard to find topical or even beach like locations.“ So the photographer is constantly challenged to think outside the box and make do with the settings around him, and aren’t we glad that he found the industrial warehouse setting for this shoot that adds just the right amount of rawness that contrasts the purity of the model’s facial features and the styling so well. Does anyone else see a bit of Cate Blanchett here in these pictures?
Utilizing the surroundings around him, Yannick takes advantage of the natural light penetrating through the industrial windows. The photographer revealed that “I´ve used mostly the incoming sunlight with a Profoto reflector. On some other sets I used a simple two light setup to light up the scenery a little bit.” For this shoot, Yannick used two Priolite MB 500 flash lights with several light formers, a Profoto reflector and a Nikon D800 with the Nikkor 85mm lens.
To find out more about Yannick Wolff’s work or to contact him you can visit his website www.yannickwolff.com as well as on his Facebook fan page www.fb.com/yannickwolffphotography, Twitter and on Instagram @yannickwolff. What do you think of Yannick’s latest shoot? Check out his behind the scenes video below. Feel free to post your comments in the comments section underneath.
PHOTO CREDITS:
Photographer – Yannick Wolff
Make-up/Styling – Tina Hoffmann
Model – Agneta Kuhne
Assistant – Admir Suljanovic
Haiku einer Orchidee
29
May
fragrant orchid —
into a butterfly’s wings
it breathes incense
Ihrer Arbeit „Haiku II“ hat die Grafik-Designerin und Fine-Art-Künstlerin Kate aus Riga in Lettland dieses Haiku des japanischen Dichters Matsuo Basho aus dem 17. Jahrhundert vorangestellt.
Liest man nach, findet man heraus, dass Basho der Versform des Haiku dazu verhalf, zu einem Hauptgenre der japanischen Poesie zu werden, nachdem es vorher fast ausschließlich für kurze Witze oder Wortspiele gebräuchlich war.
Sein meditativer Lebensstil spiegelt sich in der Einfachheit seiner Haikus wider, seine Dichtung bediente sich am Zen-Gedanken und er verwendete viele Naturmotive. Damit schließt sich der Kreis zu Kates hier vorgestellter Serie.
Sie ist die in mehreren Stadien festgehaltene Studie einer Orchideenblüte. Immer weiter nähert die Fotografin sich dem Gegenstand ihres Interesses an. Die Formen werden nach und nach deutlicher zu erkennen, wie man ein Objekt immer besser kennt, umso länger man es untersucht.
Wunderbar durch Unschärfe dargestellt, schälen sich die Formen des fragilen Gebildes immer deutlicher aus dem Raum heraus. Werden von allen Seiten betrachtet. Weder überflüssige Farben noch andere Gegenstände lenken ab, das Farbschema ist monochromatisch und der Hintergrund einfarbig, leer.
Teilweise drängt sich mir der Vergleich zu Röntgenbildern auf, so durchleuchtet wirken die Äderchen der Blätter auf mich. Kate möchte es genau wissen, mit einem Blick von außen bis ins Innerste vordringen.
Während Kates Webseite noch in der Entstehung begriffen ist, könnt Ihr diese und andere ihrer Arbeiten auf ihrem Portfolio bei Behance einsehen. Dort findet Ihr auch ihre anderen Werke, in der sie mit Vorliebe natürliche Strukturen mit gezeichneten, konstruierten oder gemalten Formen kombiniert.
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DIY Sunglasses Photo Frames
29
May
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Accessory review: FotodioX WonderPana FreeArc Filter System
29
May
If you shoot primarily with wide-angle and ultra wide-angle lenses, you know how difficult it is to add filters. A lot of wide-angle lenses feature deep petal-style lenshoods and lack normal filter threads, making it impossible to add standard threaded filters. The FotodioX WonderPana uses a threaded ring and mount system which enables the attachment of 145mm round filters and square drop-in filters to several ultra wide-angle optics. Read our review
News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
Menschenleere Gassen voller Geschichten
29
May
Vor ein paar Monaten war ich das zweite mal in Tunesien. Vom ersten Besuch habe ich nur wenige Fotos von den spannenden Orten mitgebracht, weil ich viel zu überrumpelt von den vielen neuen Eindrücken war. Dieses Mal habe versucht, mehr mitzunehmen.
Eigentlich wollte ich, nach all den Warnungen, die mir von vielen Seiten mitgegeben wurden, nicht allein umherstreifen. Aber mit einer Linse vor dem Auge kann man einfacher so tun, als wäre das mulmige Gefühl nur Teil einer Geschichte. Selbst vom offenen Tragen eine „großen“ Kamera wurde mir abgeraten, aber das habe ich erst recht nicht übers Herz gebracht.
Den Basar in den Straßen der Medina von Sousse habe ich zwei Mal besucht und obwohl ich ihn schon von meinem ersten Aufenthalt in Tunesien kannte, war es auf’s Neue ein Abenteuer.
Ich werde mich wahrscheinlich nie daran gewöhnen, mit welcher unerschöpflichen Wehemenz die Verkäufer versuchen, die Touristen in ihre engen Läden zu locken und ihre Ware an den Mann zu bringen. Im Notfall auch an die Frau. Immerhin habe ich gelernt, genauso wehement Nein zu sagen und freundlich bestimmt weiter zu gehen.
Ich fliehe dann gern in die kleineren Gassen, die in der glühenden Nachmittagshitze verlassen liegen. Sie haben mich sofort in ihren zeitlosen Bann gezogen. In jeder gibt es etwas Neues zu endecken. Die Fassaden sind viel bunter und vielfältiger als in den von Bebauungsplänen geprägten deutschen Straßen.
Die Bewohner sehen das wahrscheinlich anders, aber die Spuren des Zahnes der Zeit machen einen großen Teil ihres Charmes aus. Als hätte jede Geschichte in diesen Gassen ihre Spuren an die Wände gemalt.
Weil jede Gasse anders aussieht und ihre eigene Geschichte erzählt, haben sie mich geradezu dazu aufgefordert, sie in einer Serie nebeneinander zu stellen. Wie ein roter Faden verläuft nur der gleichbleibende Bodenbelag, der Staub und die heimelige Enge durch das Laybrinth der Stadt. Es ist wunderbar, dass man nie weiß, was hinter der nächsten Biegung liegt.
Selbst jetzt, viele Wochen später, schaue ich die Bilder der Gassen immer wieder gern an. Ich kann das ferne Geräusch der belebteren Gassen hören und der Geruch von staubiger Hitze und alten Gemäuern liegt wieder in der Luft.
Ich erinnere mich daran, wie sehr es mir gefiel, dass die Gassen, bis auf wenige Details, wunderbar zeitlos wirken. Fast könnte man denken, die fernen Rufe stammen nicht von Touristen, sondern einer Gruppe Korsaren.
Ich bin verliebt in Orte, die eine Geschichte erzählen. Denn obwohl jeder Ort seine Geschichten haben mag, sind sie selten so spürbar. Selten wurde ich so leicht in eine andere Zeit und Welt entführt und nahm ein so eindringliches, besonders Gefühl des Ortes mit nach Hause.
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SmugMug Films: Lava Light
29
May
We’ve been following SmugMug Films’ ongoing behind-the-lens series, which provide a look at people who follow their passions in photography. The latest installment features Hawaii-based duo CJ Kale and Nick Selway, who have spent the last ten years photographing volcanic lava flows in their home state. We asked them a few questions about how they got started and what keeps them out of harm’s way. Read the Q&A
News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
What Lies Beneath: Skeletons Carved into Everyday Objects
29
May
[ By Steph in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ]
Creatures large and small seem to have eaten their way out of the confinement of everyday items like rolling pins, axes, pianos and chairs in the hands of Montreal-based artist Maskull Lasserre. Previously known for his incredible skulls carved into the pages of books, Lasserre now reveals unexpected life (and death) within wooden objects.
Lasserre has carved crow skeletons, vulture skulls, rats, beetles and even a human ear out of found objects, often stacking more than one item together to produce the illusion that the sculpture is emerging from the wood. According to his CV, Lasserre’s sculptures “explore the unexpected potential of the everyday and its associated structures of authority, class, and value.”
“Elements of nostalgia, allegory, humor and the macabre are incorporated into works that induce strangeness in the familiar, and provoke uncertainty in the expected.”
In a two-part video interview with Liana Voia, Lasserre explains “When the remnants of life are imposed on an object, and that’s true especially with the carving work that I do, it infers a past history or a previous life that had been lived, so again where people see my work as macabre, I often see it as hopeful, as the remnants of a life.”
“Despite the fact that the life has ended, at least that life had a beginning and middle as well, so often by imparting these bodily elements to inanimate objects it reclaims or reanimates them in a virtual way.”
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[ By Steph in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ]
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