Chacaltaya, Bolivia is the world's highest ski area with one vintage ski lift
that tows you up to 5470m above sea level. It is somewhat dangerous to ski,
apart from the thin air: You could be hit by hogs falling from the sky.
One of [...]
The Andean Soapboxriders, an early woophy photo, is one of the finalists of Lonely Planet's One Planet, 100 Million Guidebooks photo competition. More than 130 000 photos were submitted from around the world.
100 Million Guidebooks Gallery
Check out a selection of finalists, [...]Late at Tate November
Friday 7 November 2008
Those of you living in the London area may want to hang out at the Tate Britain for an evening out. An old time photo of woophy will be part of the event, in the Duveen Galleries! [...]
(This post still needs to be cleaned up to fit into the new blog format ... sorry)
Soviet nostalgia all the way down the Silk Road: Riding a long
distance train from Moscow to Almaty/Alma-Ata via the
infrequently served Saratov - Aral Lake - Baykonur Route brings [...]
All images were taken with Nikon analog stuff (F2, FM2) on film through a super crisp and brilliant 2.0 28 mm Nikkor lens mostly, procured with an obscenely low bid from e-bay. A shame people swap such premium glass for wonky DX zooooooms. .................................................................... Slides are vacuumed into the computer by a Minolta slide scanner that makes noises like a roller compactor in the process but amazingly pumps 39 Mpixels per piece into the computer. With those 5400 dpi you can watch bacteria nibbling off the transparencies. .................................................................... Digital helperers include a Realviz Stitching Machine for the super wide panoramas and some Photoshop massage. .................................................................... I'm an animation artist. (animating pixels, not holiday makers)
