#Photography


Masked Beauty

Sharbat Gula's 1984 portrait by Steve McCurry for National Geographic magazine.

It all started with her being pho­tographed by Steve McCurry in 1984. Prob­a­bly one of the most famous por­trait in mod­ern times. What strikes the most are her eyes. You’re just drawn to them right away (at least I am).

I’ve been notic­ing some new por­traits that focuses on this style per se. So I fig­ured to make a list which I’ll con­stantly update as I get hypnotized.

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How-to Map Photos on Flickr with Pinpoint Accuracy

It seems that I haven’t (in the time of writ­ing) added a geolo­ca­tion to one of my favorite pho­tographs, as well as Life-moments.

Breathless Balcony

Truly a “Breath­less Bal­cony.” Taken on the third day of a recent Inka Trail trek at Intipata in Peru.

Mean­while, back to the sub­ject. If we’re talk­ing about Flickr, Yahoo! comes to mind. The only thing that sucks about map­ping on Flickr is the lim­ited cov­er­age and sub­par details of Yahoo! Maps (in this case). You get results like these:

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Eventful Weekend with Rhythm Natives in SF

My bro and his bro­hams, the Rhythm Natives, went to visit the Bay Area this past week­end. They were part of Bambu’s Smug­glers Tour in SF. I had the oppor­tu­nity in tak­ing some pho­tos from both their shows: Fri­day, May 20th at 111 Minna Gallery; and Sat­ur­day, May 21st at Rockit Room.

Luck­ily, we sur­vived The Rap­ture or I wouldn’t have been able to get these posted. =)

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