Palouse from above.
Here are more images from this shoot.

Oscar Ruiz, a helicopter pilot based in the Mexico City metropolitan area has some incredible photos showing the urban sprawl of Mexico City. Oscar, and another aerial photographer, Alex MacClean, have an eye for patterns in the urban environment and the nature environment. Alex has photographed all over the US and has shot my home turf, the Palouse. Yann Arthus-Bertrand is perhaps the most famous contemporary aerial photographer. He has available free over 1000 images with captions that can be downloaded as wallpaper. He has been all over the world and has also been to the Palouse. Yann is the brains behind the professional stock photo agency “Altitude” representing 70 aerial photographers.

Jakub 'jimmac' Steiner as some kickass MPEG4 videos/screencasts showing GIMP 2.0 fuctionality and tutorials. These are silent but deadly - deadly coll that is!

Aerial Palouse at Sunset

Dennis Hays of “Secrets of Digital Imaging — A Digital Imaging Audio Magazine” interviewed me over this last weekend and he has released the audio podcast “into the wild.” Listen to the interview here.

Get yourself over to Chris Marquardt’s “tips from the top floor” and enter Chris’s self protrait contest to win a iPod Mini - contest ends Aug 21, 2005. Here’s my entry. Here’s Chris’s. I’m sure you can do better than either of us!
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Palouse wheat at sunset.

I’ve added a short list of Palouse Photographers to my link bar on this page. I’ll add more as I become aware of them. So far I’ve included here photographers that either live on the Palouse or shoot the Palouse as one of their primary subject. If you know of others, please let me know.

• Alison Meyer
• Doug Davidson
• Kevin Nibur
• Alan Caddey
• Chuck Pezeshki

Noah is the brains behind Greysight Web Software. Here are several of his photo series. I particularly like this CSS designed interface.

School Fire Sunrise!
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Today the fire has doubled in size. It is now 32,000 acres and is the largest fire in the Lower 48. The smoke collunm rises up into the jetstream and is currently being carried over our house. The smoke is so high that we can not smell it but it is really coloring our sky. The light even in mid-day has a cool quality to it.

School Fire explodes!
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There is a fire in the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness which is in the extreme SE corner of Washington State. Mary and I have hike this area quite a bit and really love it. It looks like thinks there will be changing. I haven’t gotten too close to the fire but from our house which is about 100 miles NE of the fire the sunset was awesome. The Northwest Interagency Coordination Center’s report on the fire shows that it exploded to an estimated 15,000 acres and the cause is under investigation.

Camouflage Frog

The above photo has nothing to do with this post. I just think this blog needed a image on it rather than just text.

Recently I’ve come across a couple of unique sites displaying fine art figure photography. Shooting nudes is something I’ve always wanted to do but had the opportunity. Now it seems cliche that a middle-aged middle-class white guy would dream of being a fine art figure photographer. There are quite a few guys shooting nudes and a couple are actually original.

Leonard Nimoy of “Star Trek” fame has a series of photos called the“Full Body Project”. Leonard has quite a number of photo series and is quite accomplished. I’m sure being Leonard Nimoy helps.

Chan Chao, who first became know for his series Burma: Something Went Wrong, more recently finished a series of nudes, actually portraits of naked women. There is something quite beautiful about these portraits. The subjects are posed in such a way as to elevate the ordinary to the dignified.

Do you have some favorite fine art figure photographers? Let me know.