Click here to purchase song on iTunes and get Sheet Music: iTunes: itunes.apple.com CD and Sheet Music: briancrain.com This video was produced by Rob Crain. http The song is “Rain” from the album “Piano and Violin Duet” by Brian Crain. Violin performed by Rita Chepurchenko. Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center eol.jsc.nasa.gov These images were shot with a Nikon D3S with 17-35mm F2.8 and 14-24mm F2.8 lenses
Photo from Nicole S. Young’s G+ stream.
One way you can judge the health of a social network is by the relationships that come out of it. There has probably been no more vibrant social network for photographers this past year than Google+. Google+ attracted the most social of photographers early on last year when they launched and they’ve succeed in capturing the soul of social networking for photographers since. There are many sites where you can post photos, Flickr, Facebook, Instagram, 500px, but none have quite the social magic that Google+ has in quite the same way right now.
I remember when Flickr first launched back in the day, back when they seemed to have a simliar magic. One of the first things you saw coming out of Flickr were romantic relationships — many people were meeting on Flickr, getting involved and in some cases even getting married. Google+ is only a year and a half old at this point, but today I saw the first photographer marriage coming out of the network that I’ve noticed so far, photographers Nicole S. Young and Brian Matiash announced that they tied the knot.
For those of you who don’t know Nicole and Brian, they are wonderful photographers and contributors to G+. Nicole is a photographer and author who specializes in stock and food photography and Brian works for photo processing company onOne Software and like me loves to shoot abandoned and urbex type photography.
From Nicole:
“Every once in a while something that is seemingly small comes along that makes a difference in your life, and other times it changes your life completely. In the summer of 2011 Google+ was brought to life, and with that the beginning of Hangouts and a swarm of amazing people from all over the world. This community here on Google+ has impacted my life so wonderfully and drastically, and in the process I’ve made many life-long friends and connected with people I barely knew before, but through the popularity of Hangouts I was able to actually interact with.
One of those people was +Brian Matiash, and just a few months ago we officially tied the knot!
Yes, it’s true. He got down on one knee and asked me to marry him, and I said YES!!! We had a simple ceremony on what we call “Marriage Day”
My good Pal Trey Ratcliff got the assist for helping to introduce them to each other on, yep, you guessed it, a Google+ hangout.
Congratulations to Brian and Nicole both on this excellent news! I’m curious as to whether or not they’ll be registering at B&H or Adorama.
And for the rest of you, before you pony up for that match.com or eHarmony account next month, you just might want to reconsider and head on over and check out Google+ instead. My money’s on Scott Jarvie being next, btw. 
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Brian was at the RWA, The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, on Thurs 26 January 2012 to give a short talk and book signing, to introduce a photographic exhibition “A Village Lost and Found”.
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Go to www.silberstudios.tv to see full version! Brian Smith is a Pulitzer prize winner who has photographed one luminary after another: Bill Gates, Anne Hathaway, Samuel L. Jackson, and the list just goes on. In our interview Brian discussed his process for getting intimate environmental portraits that truly capture the essence of his subjects. He gives down to earth tips for portraiture that can be applied to photographing anyone, not just movie stars but every day stars who deserve to have a great photograph taken of them, for their personal 15 minutes of fame. With a career full of accomplishments he speaks from experience which behooves any photographer to pay attention to and take notes. Be sure to look at his work closely on his site briansmith.com
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www.ted.com Photographer Brian Skerry shoots life above and below the waves — as he puts it, both the horror and the magic of the ocean. Sharing amazing, intimate shots of undersea creatures, he shows how powerful images can help make change.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com
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Brian May on Sky Arts Book Show, from the Hay Book Festival
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A quick tutorial about how to make professional looking 3D movies and films using a beam-splitter 3D rig. For more info on 3D camera rigs and productions go to www.3DFilmFactory.com Stereoscopic 3d, anaglyph, stereo shooting, how to shoot 3D, filming in 3D, dual camera rig, 3D rig, 3D camera system, making 3D movies, 3D production, filming in 3D, 3D videos, making 3D videos
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“A Village Lost and Found” by Brian May & Elena Vidal …The London Stereoscopic Company [Part 1]
The Photographer Project is a personal project by Brooklyn-based photographer Brian Ach which consists of full-length studio portraits of entertainment photographers who are based in NYC. The concept was to give the tabloid-buying public a glimpse into the lives of the people who supply these celebrity images to the media around the world on a daily basis. The portraits were shot on 6×4.5 medium format film and also with Canon digital cameras. The portraits are slice-of-life. The photographers were told to dress as they would when shooting a large movie premiere; to “arrive as-is, without any embellishments.” The Photographer Project consists of staff and freelance wire service, event, and paparazzi shooters. The portraits are all shot in my studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A gallery exhibit is in the planning stages, after which the pictures, along with 10 standardized questions to be answered by each photographer, will be made into a book. The main goal for this project is to raise money for a well-known entertainment photographer in New York, Paul Hawthorne, who passed away of amylodiosis, a serious blood disease. Over 70 photographers have come in for their portrait. www.brianach.com Filmed by Chris Barrett
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