Tag: photography

Window People

Norman Lerner worked as a fashion and commercial photographer in New York City from the early 50’s to the 70’s. He states that, “my photography did not end when the model left the studio. The city and its people were a part of me and I was part of them. Everything about the city fascinated me so it seemed only natural for me as a photographer to record the people and places in which I lived. When I left the studio the camera was always with me and it became an extension of my being. It was as natural as breathing.”

[Found here.]

LOOK UP

President and Mrs. Johnson and Vice President Humphrey watch Apollo 11 lift off at Cape Canaveral, July 1969. Photograph by Otis Imboden, National Geographic. [Found here.]

Young Family in a Dark Forest at a Bridge To Nowhere

Four small nightmares. An abandoned stage set creates a terrifying forest setting for these visitors to a lonely theme park scene now closed. What horrible event was portrayed inside the forest with a bridge to nowhere but darker? – Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

[Right click to enlarge; full size at link. Photos and description found here.]

Nothing Much Happened Today.

Rui’an Street, Daan District, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011. Natsumi Hayashi photographer.

From Levitation series by Japanese photographer Natsumi Hayashi.
[Found here, via here.]

Third Ave & Bowery, NYC

Third Ave & Bowery, New York City, Tom Webb photographer, 1946.

Note that the shop advert is a screen; the windows are visible. It’s around the corner down the street somewhere (or was). Presumably the building shown is (or was) on Bowery Street. Original photo by Tom Webb found in here, overlaid colorized portion by unknown. [Related post here.]

Memorial Day 2026

Arlington National Cemetery, L’Enfant Drive, Section 41.

Memorial Day is a time of remembrance, reflection, and reunion with friends and families. For your festivities, here are some unrelated tunes, chosen at random and ordered by year of release.
[Previous Memorial Day posts are archived here.]

[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of the recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]

This was The End

[Found here.]

A Storehouse of Asiatic Antiquities

[Found in here.]

City Hall

City Hall Offices, Lubumbashi, DR Congo, 2008. Photo by Guy Tillim

He’s presumably somewhere in this building in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [Found here, via here.]

Dumbo of the Deep

Dumbo Octopus

Members of the genus Grimpoteuthis, these critters are the deepest-living octopus known to science and can be found near the seafloor at depths of up to 13,000 ft (4,000 m). These adorable cephalopods flap their ear-like fins as they move through the water—a behavior that inspired scientists to name the genus Grimpoteuthis after Disney’s flying elephant. Unlike many other octopuses, Dumbo octopuses do not have ink sacs. Some scientists think it’s because they rarely encounter predators in their extremely remote, deep-sea habitats.

Photo: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Wikimedia Commons
Credit: American Museum of Natural History.

[Image and description found here. Dumbo octo gif found here; more cephalopod stuff here.]