You’ll find only photos without faces in this quirky gallery You Can’t Always Face The Street by Peep O’Daze.
For more photos that shoot the street from a different angle, check out the Street Shadows group.
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February 22, 2013
Thomas Hawk: “I’m trying to capture 1 million photos before I die”
“I think of myself as a photography factory,” says photographer and blogger Thomas Hawk, who has embarked upon a journey to shoot and publish 1 million photos before he dies. “I am obsessed with photography, but I think an obsession can be the same thing as passion.”
Thomas, in his mid-40s, carries his camera everywhere he goes for fear that he may miss a great photo opportunity. But he still has a long way to go in order to achieve his goal.
“I’ve almost uploaded 79,000 photographs to Flickr,” he says. “I have another 22,000 or so photographs that are ready to go on Flickr.”
His “love affair” with photography started when he got his first Kodak Instamatic camera as a 7-year-old. At 15, his parents bought him his first SLR before he took a bicycle trip across America. “Riding your bicycle across America when you are 15 really gave me an early appreciation for America,” Thomas says.
In his quest to take 1 million photos, one of the things he wants to do is document America’s 100 largest cities.
“I think I have shot maybe 36 out of 100 so far,” he says. “I want to shoot the entire country in the most comprehensive and substantial way it has ever been done.”
Thomas specifically wants to capture the parts of America that are temporary before they disappear.
“I think people will want to go back in the future and remember a different type of America; a place that was unique to their time frame,” says Thomas.
Architecture is one aspect of Americana that is always changing. He cites Detroit as a perfect example.
“Detroit is in massive decline. There are tens of thousands of abandoned structures in Detroit. There is nothing like that in the world, really, that I have ever seen and I want to capture that and show that part of America before it’s gone.”
Thomas is also fascinated by neon signs, which are also fading away. “Back in the day, before things like florescent light bulbs were around and plastics, a neon sign was a great way to draw someone to your business; it was very bright and vivid,” he says. “So much of that signage is torn down and is going to be lost and gone forever.”
He also loves the people of America because they are all so different depending on the part of the country. “You’ll shoot people dressed to the nines out on South Beach in Miami. You’ll shoot people in New York with their sort of unique fashion sense. But then you’ll go to someplace like Fort Worth, Texas and you’ll find a whole different culture: You’ll find cowboys.”
“I think the world is such a beautiful place,” Thomas says. “Every place I go I am convinced it is my favorite place, and yet I go to someplace else and that place becomes my favorite place.”
But his desire to shoot 1 million photos in his lifetime does not come easy. It is a struggle to keep up such a rapid pace.
“It is a lot of hard work being out there on the road and shooting, by no means is it easy,” he says. “If I decide to go to a city and I’m gonna shoot for 20 hours, and I am going to sleep for four, and I am just exhausted at midnight, the last thing that I want to do is get up in the morning at 5 am for sunrise. That’s hard.”
There is also a struggle to find time with his family in between his day job as an investment advisor and his ambitious goal. He is married, with four young children. “It’s a struggle to keep a certain amount of balance in my life with my family, and making sure I give them enough time at the same time I’m pursuing this passion,” he says.
“Do I feel like time is running out, ever? Yeah,” Thomas says. “You only have so many breaths and then you’re gone. So there is a race against the clock in a way. I try to really maximize the time I do have.”
While he doesn’t know if he will be able to reach his goal, he’s certainly going to keep trying.
“For me it is a way for me to keep my focus to keep working with an intensity that I think produces the work that I want to do,” he says. “It takes incredible discipline drive and passion to accomplish big things and I want to accomplish something big with photography.”
Visit Thomas’s photostream for more of his photography.
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February 22, 2013
#FlickrFriday: When Night Falls
Last week’s Flickr Friday theme was When Night Falls.
You took many different approaches to interpret the theme, from colorful sunsets, stunning night shots and even more creative approaches like the (K)night photo above. You can check out all contributions in the Flickr Friday group pool Thanks for your submissions, we’ll be right back with the next theme announcement.
Photos from doctah, mswickedmonton, RayKippig, DinosaursAreNotDead, Erin Rupe Sweeney, Fredrik Forsberg, and Derek Hall.
#FlickrFriday is a weekly photography project that challenges your creativity. For a chance to be featured on FlickrBlog, follow @flickr on Twitter & like us on Facebook and look for the weekly theme announcement every Friday. Browse the Flickr Friday category for more.
Posted by Kay Kremerskothen
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February 21, 2013
New with Flickr for iPhone: Mention your friends, download your photos, faster uploads and more!
Our latest update to the new iPhone app is here! It brings quite a few features that many of you have asked for.
Take the conversations to another level!
You can now mention your friends right from the app. Start by typing in the @ sign, and then simply select one of your Flickr contacts to mention them in a title, description or comment. We will notify your friends that you mentioned them.
You can now mention your friends right from the app. Start by typing in the @ sign, and then simply select one of your Flickr contacts to mention them in a title, description or comment. We will notify your friends that you mentioned them.
Download your photos!
You can now download your own photos from Flickr to your camera roll. Just tap the share icon on any of your photos and tap “Save Photo”. A few seconds later the photo will be in your iPhone’s camera roll in the largest available resolution.
You can now download your own photos from Flickr to your camera roll. Just tap the share icon on any of your photos and tap “Save Photo”. A few seconds later the photo will be in your iPhone’s camera roll in the largest available resolution.
Faster than light (nearly)!
Uploads from the Flickr app are much faster. We did some magic to optimize uploads, but also start uploading in the background while you think about the photo’s title or where you want to share it to. You basically get the best of both worlds: High resolution uploads that will make sure that you can enjoy your photos in great quality in the future, plus fast uploads in the background, so that you don’t have to wait.
Uploads from the Flickr app are much faster. We did some magic to optimize uploads, but also start uploading in the background while you think about the photo’s title or where you want to share it to. You basically get the best of both worlds: High resolution uploads that will make sure that you can enjoy your photos in great quality in the future, plus fast uploads in the background, so that you don’t have to wait.
And there is more: Photos that you take with the Flickr camera are now immediately saved to your camera roll. We also now display an even higher resolution image in the lightbox view, so you can zoom in further and see all of the details. Lastly you can now take photos in a snap by using your iPhone’s volume up button.
Head over to our iPhone App page and grab the latest version of Flickr for iPhone. If you have any questions or want to give us feedback, join us in the Flickr for iPhone group.
Still hot: The Top 10 Flickr for iPhone Tips we published recently.
Posted by Markus Spiering
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February 21, 2013
Monochrome Moments
Black and white photography can teach us to see the world more graphically as shapes, shadows, textures, and lines within the frame of our photos become more pronounced.
Dive into the world of colorless photography and get inspiration for your exploration of monochrome moments in theBlack and White group group.
Photos from Michael_Booth, cappuccino289, ashwinrao1, sadaiche (Peter Franc), and Kai Nicolas Schaper.
Posted by Kay Kremerskothen
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February 20, 2013
Brazil’s master of architecture: Oscar Niemeyer
You’re bound to be captivated by at least one building designed by Oscar Niemeyer when exploring Brazilian cityscapes. With an international career that spanned nearly 80 years, Niemeyer (1907-2012) paved the way for Brazil’s urban modernization as South America’s innovative, prolific architect. His 600-projects list includes distinctive monuments that express what the jury of the Pritzker Architecture Prize stated as “the distillation of colors, light and sensual imagery of his native land.”
See more of Niemeyer’s projects in photos: Architecture by Oscar Niemeyer gallery | Oscar Niemeyer group
Posted by Arnold Chao
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February 20, 2013
Chienbäse, a Swiss tradition
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On the Sunday night after Ash Wednesday a procession begins of people carrying burning bundles of pinewood chips (called Chienbäse, the Alemannic German for “pinewood besom”) through the medieval town center of Liestal, Switzerland, entering through the city gate from the south. In more recent decades the Chienbäse have been augmented with carts carrying bonfires, with flames often reaching as high as the houses. — Wikipedia
If you enjoyed the above photos, check out other fiery photos from this year’s Chienbäse festival.
Posted by Kay Kremerskothen
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February 19, 2013
Haneda Airport, a futuristic view
Haneda Airport, officially known as Tokyo International Airport and located in Ōta, Tokyo, is one of the two primary airports that serve the Greater Tokyo Area in Japan.
While one might think that many of your photos including the above were taken at dystopian movie sets of "Prometheus", "Minority Report" or the remake of "Total Recall", they in fact show Haneda’s Terminal 2 designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli architects which was opened to the public in 2004.
Posted by Kay Kremerskothen
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February 18, 2013
Weekend Samplr
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Photos from Alessio Albi, Arnolt Schlick, unoforever, Adam BStar, Julia Martin Photography, lucas ottone, andthomas@flickr, all uploaded around the weekend.
Also, Happy Presidents Day to all our members in the US and huge congratulations to L S G and his fiance who got engaged this weekend!
Posted by Kay Kremerskothen
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February 14, 2013
Prodigy 18-year-old photographer: ‘I want to evoke nostalgia in everyone’
Olivia Bee may be young, but her work has been sought after by some of the world’s most iconic brands.
“I’ve worked for Converse, Nike, Subaru, The New York Times,” the 18-year-old professional photographer from Portland, Oregon, tells The Weekly Flickr. “I did a really big feature for Hermès this summer, which was really amazing to be trusted so much by such an iconic brand.”
When Olivia snaps her camera, she has one ambition: “I want to evoke nostalgia in everyone,” she says.
Coming from someone with less than two decades of life experience, that may sound a bit sophomoric. But just take a look at her photos and her resume.
“I am really inspired by daily life and the beauty that that can hold: like the way someone holds their pencil or the way someone smiles at their best friend or the way someone walks down the street,” she explains. “I am very influenced by the ’60s and ’70s, and also the styling from the ’70s really influences the way I put colors together, but I think that you can see that I shoot through a young lens.”
She got her start in photography by accident while in middle school at just 11 years of age.
“I wanted to be in video production, but they gave me photography,” Olivia explains. “It was kind of like the best mistake that could have been made by my school counselor, because I just, like, fell in love with this art.”
But her love for the medium did not come immediately.
At first, “I was really frustrated with it,” she says. “But then, slowly I became less and less frustrated and more determined to make really nice photos.”
Shortly thereafter, she began to post her images to Flickr. “I just really liked to show the world what I was seeing,” Olivia says.
“I was a freshman in high school when Converse approached me. Their ad agency kept sending me Flickr messages, and I just kept ignoring it,” she says, explaining that she thought the messages were spam. “And so finally, Converse emailed me directly and was like ‘Hey, this is Converse, we wanna shoot with you’ and I was like ‘Whoa, I know about Converse.’”
Before she knew it, they invited her on set for a photo shoot. Olivia was just 15 years old at the time.
“I was so scared,” she recollects. “But by the end of the day, I was like, ‘You can do this for a living?! Sign me up!’”
“Being so young and working in the fashion industry is really great,” she says. “I get to work with a lot of amazing brands, a lot of amazing people, but it is also hard because when I am hired for a job or I am working on my own photo, I give it 100%, sometimes 500%.”
Olivia works roughly 80 hours a week and gets really involved in all her work. She likes to do all her own styling, color correcting, editing, casting, and set design. She is also very often her own muse.
Despite the long hours and tireless effort she puts forth, she loves what she does.
“I love photography because it is a way for me to really to show my life to myself and be like ‘look at all this amazing stuff you’ve experienced,’” she explains. ”It really makes me think that my life has been totally worth living and really helps me appreciate every single day.”
Her advice to photographers who are just starting out: “Don’t focus on success, that will really do you wrong. Success in terms of money and fame — that won’t mean anything. You should focus on success in terms of what you love and what makes you happy.”
Visit Olivia’s photostream for more of her photography.
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