inspirational whatsits.

Sep 23

photojojo:

In the third part of this new series, we present the BentProp Project, a California- based effort that has been searching for the long-lost bodies of tens of thousands of fallen American soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen who never came home from World War II, their remains lost in dense jungles, in hidden caves, in downed warplanes under several fathoms of seawater, and in other nearly inaccessible areas seldom seen by humans.

In the remote island of Palau — 1,000 miles south of Guam — the bloody 1944 Battle of Peleliu saw 73 missing in action from the Marines alone.

Now documentarians Jennifer Powers and Dan O’Brien are following up with a companion coffee-table book called Lost in Palau to raise awareness of the BentProp work. They’re attempting to collect $36,000 to fund the book through Kickstarter.com.

This post is by LIFE as part of Photojojo’s Show & Tell Week.

skibinskipedia: firsttimeuser: Grand Central 3, 1947 by Paul Himmel (gallery f5,6)
Sep 25

skibinskipedia:

firsttimeuser: Grand Central 3, 1947 by Paul Himmel (gallery f5,6)

photojojo: Of J. R. Eyerman’s famous LIFE magazine photo of filmgoers watching a 3- D movie, Stalman says: What strikes me right away, of course, is the repetition of faces, so that individuals no longer stand out, and the image instead creates this remarkable, almost abstract pattern. You get a certain impression of the image from a distance, and then as you look closer, you suddenly begin to see the individual faces. Compositionally, the image works really well on different levels when seen at different distances. Photo Tip #3: Look for Patterns This post is by LIFE as part of Photojojo’s Show & Tell Week.
Sep 26

photojojo:

Of J. R. Eyerman’s famous LIFE magazine photo of filmgoers watching a 3- D movie, Stalman says:

What strikes me right away, of course, is the repetition of faces, so that individuals no longer stand out, and the image instead creates this remarkable, almost abstract pattern. You get a certain impression of the image from a distance, and then as you look closer, you suddenly begin to see the individual faces. Compositionally, the image works really well on different levels when seen at different distances.

Photo Tip #3: Look for Patterns

This post is by LIFE as part of Photojojo’s Show & Tell Week.

photojojo: Of this well-known photograph of sunlight streaming into New York’s Grand Central Station as commuters make their way across the concourse, Stalman says: The lesson is that this is something you can see anywhere — when you wake up in the morning, or walking down a hallway in a museum, or just working in a backyard shed. Everything that the light is hitting here is being lit up. So you don’t always have to think of your subject as being lit. Sometimes the light itself can be the subject. After all, none of the people here are doing much at all, they’re kind of just acting as background. It’s all about the light, the light, the light. Photo tip #2: Light Can Be Your Subject, Not Just a Tool This post is by LIFE as part of Photojojo’s Show & Tell Week.
Sep 28

photojojo:

Of this well-known photograph of sunlight streaming into New York’s Grand Central Station as commuters make their way across the concourse, Stalman says:

The lesson is that this is something you can see anywhere — when you wake up in the morning, or walking down a hallway in a museum, or just working in a backyard shed. Everything that the light is hitting here is being lit up. So you don’t always have to think of your subject as being lit. Sometimes the light itself can be the subject. After all, none of the people here are doing much at all, they’re kind of just acting as background. It’s all about the light, the light, the light.

Photo tip #2: Light Can Be Your Subject, Not Just a Tool

This post is by LIFE as part of Photojojo’s Show & Tell Week.