Picture Stories by Stephen Alvarez

Think Fixed Tech: iPhone popularity on Flickr

See here and here. It seems that the ubiquity of the iPhone is making it one of the most popular cameras out there.  That doesn't make it the best (obviously) but what it does mean is that there are many many people out there who are making images with it.  Could some of them be good?  A Google search for iphone-photography reveals 18,400 results.  I say there could be some great ones out there.

Geof Bowie
www.thinkfixed.com

Mike's Farm, North Carolina

Outside Jacksonville, NC there is an amazing display of Christmas lights. Hundreds of people come to take the hayride at Mike's Farm. 

Canon 5d mark II

My mark II arrived last night thanks to Ira Block. 2 things I ordered immediately: some 16 GB cards and a video fluid head.

Guest Post by Rob Shone: Colosuss, Crete

My friend Rob Shone has guest posted here before. Rob is an excellent photographer and one of the few people shooting pictures underground who gets the difference between taking a photo of a cave and making a photo that feels like the place. He is off to Borneo next month, Canon EOS 5D Mark II in hand. Can't wait to see what he comes back with.

-SA

 

Somewhere high up in the White Mountains on the Greek island of Crete, under a barren scree slope lies a colossal 150m deep shaft that has only recently been explored to a depth of -213m and remains wide open.

            

Ambrym Volcano, Vanuatu

You know this isn't even the right volcano. I went to shoot another in the long chain of islands that make up Vanuatu. But flying there we had to cross Ambrym so a few hundred frames later this picture comes out. 

Beyond Iraq/ Yuri Kozyrev on Dispatches

Book display in Jacksonville NC

Steve McCurry is a great photographer. But no matter how briliant you are once you book is published there it stands on the display sandwiched in between the Big Penis Book and the Big Book of Breasts.
-SA

lost, PNG

No Doubt right now someone is peering at their GPS just like these guys. Lost. Even with high technology it happens. In fact this year I put a new satellite navigator in the car and have never been as lost in my life as then. Driving to Virginia from Tennessee I ended up in Kentucky.

Why? As some one said technology is a poor master. I was paying attention to the device and not where I was going. 

Hope we all find our way home safely from this holiday.

-SA

Merry Christmas indeed

Ira Block called yesterday to say he had gotten a Canon EOS 5d mark II for me. It will arrive next week. I'll post a review as soon as I try it out.

-SA

Merry Soulful Christmas, Good God

Who better than the Godfather of Soul to say Merry Christmas!

Good God I can't stand myself...