One of my photographic heroes, Joe McNally, wrote a blog post looking back 20 years at National Geographic. He also has a video from back in 1992 about the process of National Geographic, from the photograph via editing, more editing, and then finally to print. It's very cool to look at, if not for the story then at least for the hair.

I find it striking how much Joe looks like what I feel is a typical NY photographer back in the days. I would see him shoot alongside Peter Parker any day.

Check the video after the break...

At the start of my last project by Chess IX (I'm leaving after working there for over 5 years) I looked at several Java web frameworks. One of the frameworks was Wicked, which I blogged about earlier, but the hands-down winner was the Play Framework. On the surface it seemed to be designed much like my beloved Django, and now that we've arrived at the final week of the project at my final week at Chess IX it seems like a good idea to write about my findings.

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A week ago my friend Janet asked for a photographer on Facebook. The next day she stood in front of me, modeling outdoors in Amsterdam. I had packed all kind of gear - digital camera, flashes, light stands, umbrella, reflectors, analogue camera, the whole shebang. Only I had forgotten to bring any memory cards... so I left all the digital stuff in the bag, and only used my trusty Chinon CS with Kodak Tri-X 400 film.

I got the negatives developed and scanned, and here are the results!

More photos after the break

“when you're looking with your eyes, it doesn’t mean you’re seeing.” – Andreas Gursky

The video below is a 23-minute documentary by Ben Lewis, about the German photographer Andreas Gursky. Lewis tries to find out what makes a Gursky a Gursky, and in the mean time learns about the man behind the photos.

Ben Lewis - Gursky World from TofuTasties on Vimeo.

Thanks to Stephen Schaub of The Figital Revolution for posting about this. Very inspiring!

This weekend I got a lot of dark room supplies from friends (thanks Ton & Q!). Monday I bought the necessary liquids, and yesterday I developed my very first photo. As soon as I saw the photo appear on the paper I fell in love with the process. Of course I wasn't satisfied with the first result, so immediately I started playing around with dodging and burning. It was was easier than I expected, and very satisfying!

Photos of my "dark room" after the break