This guy made a pinhole camera out of a roast duck.

If you can get past the cheesy computer report format, this CNN video is actually quite a nice piece on why some photographers in New York are still shooting film. One of the interview subjects is the great Elliot Erwitt. I like how each of the photographers, rather than reel out some definable reasons why they love film, talk about the feeling they get from the process. That is love, man.

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I missed it but a Canadian photojournalist working for the LA Times won a Pulitzer for her work covering the victims of gang violence. Barbara Davidson worked with families who have suffered loss and those dealing with life-changing injuries (and psychological trauma) from shootings.

This CBC TV story on her work has some very raw footage of her shooting during an intense argument between a paralyzed woman (and mother) and her estranged husband, both trying to deal with her changed circumstances.

I don't really know what a Dripbook is but it looks like you can preview the entirety of Anna Skladmann's "Little Adults", a book of portraits of the children of Russia's ultra rich. There are some real gems here. I especially like the one shot from above of the blond girl in the white dress being exhausted on what looks like a Louis XIVth style sofa.

Take a look.

Just take a look.

From Discover:

Alan used a filter that lets through only a very narrow wavelength of light emitted by hydrogen (called Hα for those of you keeping track at home), so this tracks the activity of gas on the solar surface. He also inverts the image of the solar disk (makes it a negative) to increase contrast. Somehow this adds a three-dimensional quality to the picture, and reveals an amazing amount of texture. I swear I had a rug in my bedroom growing up that was this texture (though somewhat cooler and less burny).