Posts tagged black and white

Finally got around to editing some more pics from the 9 days in Europe. I got through about 70 pics from the 3.5 days in Prague and edited the 50 or so keepers. Hopefully I’ll get to the photos from Vienna and Budapest soon. In the meantime, here’s a pic dump.

All pics taken with a Canon S95 and edited in Lightroom 3

34th & Now is gonna pick up again now that finals are over, break is done, and I’m back at on the 2nd year medical school grind in search of new music to help drown out the monotony of studying the basic sciences. In there meantime, here’s some pics I took over break when we went on a 9 day Prague-Vienna-Budapest trip. These are from the Vienna Zoo, which is apparently the oldest zoo in the world.

Singer-Songwriter Ed Sheeran is already well known in the UK—in fact, he’s the fastest growing debut performer in the UK ever with his debut album “+” selling 100,000 copies its first week. It also holds the title for fastest selling digital record in the UK.

“The A-Team,”the very first single off that album was written by Sheeran after a last minute gig performing for the homeless. The song itself is amazing but it’s the video that really does it for me. Shot for something like £20, it manages to outdo every video in recent memory with nothing but black and white, some time lapse, and incredible use of subject. If you think I’m just being a camera/film nerd, watch the video. Then tell me you didn’t hit replay.

Interesting Side Story:
In 2010, after leaving his old management company, Sheeran hopped a plane to Los Angeles, with no contacts other than for one poetry night. He proceeded to play open mic nights all over and eventually caught the attention of Jamie Foxx who was so impressed he not only let Sheeran use his recording study, but he invited Sheeran to stay at his house for the rest of his stay in LA.


Lee Jeffries is an accountant from Manchester by profession but for the past few years he’s traveled around the world photographing people he encounters on the streets, particularly the homeless.

He spends time getting to know each of his subjects before shooting them, which is evident in his work. The breath taking portraits seem to suggest details of each individuals life, taking a hard unflinching look at their personal condition.

Jeffries was just announced as the 2011 Digital Camera Photographer of the Year and you can read more about him at the Independent.

(Via powerofthebeard)

These are, simply put, fantastic.

I was going through my camera and realized I had 4 or 5 pics on the internal memory that I forgot were there from when Liz & I were messing around my Gorilla Pod and self timer.

I was going through my camera and realized I had 4 or 5 pics on the internal memory that I forgot were there from when Liz & I were messing around my Gorilla Pod and self timer.

Empire Strikes Back - When Darth Vader (David Prowse) revealed his secret to Luke, Hamill was hanging onto a pinnacle above mattresses placed on cardboard boxes about 30 feet off the ground. (via jaymug)

Empire Strikes Back - When Darth Vader (David Prowse) revealed his secret to Luke, Hamill was hanging onto a pinnacle above mattresses placed on cardboard boxes about 30 feet off the ground. (via jaymug)

Did you think to kill me? There’s no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.Remember Remember the Fifth of NovemberThe Gunpowder Treason and Plot I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot.

Did you think to kill me? There’s no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

Remember Remember the Fifth of November
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot
I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.

The Full Roster

Top:
Fender American Special HSS Strat
Squire Affinity Tele (modded)
Epiphone Special II w/ GFS Dream 180/Mean 90
Epiphone Plus Top PRO/FX
Epiphone Les Paul Standard
Taylor 110CE
Martin D12x1 12 String
Martin DCME

Bottom: Alvy (retired due to signatures)
Matt Nathanson
Tim Reynolds
Richard Edwards (Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s)
Ronnie Kwasman (Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s)
William Fitzsimmons
Christie Lenee


Right now I’m running on 2 hours of sleep thanks to renal physiology and histology of the gastrointestinal tract. The only thing that is going to getting me through right now is listening to music—well, that and a shit ton of Maxwell House instant coffee. After going to at least one concert a week this summer, I can’t believe it’s been 3 months since I’ve been to a show…

Here’s some of my favorite concert photos I’ve taken back when I still had a life…you know, in the real world.

After a week of ~60hours of anatomy, histology, physiology, immunology it felt good to take a 2 hour study break at just chill at the beach tonight. Well…at least until we started discussing osmolarity of the ocean water.

After a week of ~60hours of anatomy, histology, physiology, immunology it felt good to take a 2 hour study break at just chill at the beach tonight. Well…at least until we started discussing osmolarity of the ocean water.

Here’s one of the photos I shot at the Matt Nathanson show. It was tough to get really great shots as, being such an intimate venue, flash photography is almost always banned.

Here’s one of the photos I shot at the Matt Nathanson show. It was tough to get really great shots as, being such an intimate venue, flash photography is almost always banned.

Here’s a sweet photo from the Joshua Radin / Justin Nozuka show at the Trocadero taken by my friend Nikita for 215Mag, Philly’s own music, art and culture magazine. You can check out the rest of the black & white set here. Oh, and be sure to check out her blog, LyfeThruMyLens.

Here’s a sweet photo from the Joshua Radin / Justin Nozuka show at the Trocadero taken by my friend Nikita for 215Mag, Philly’s own music, art and culture magazine. You can check out the rest of the black & white set here. Oh, and be sure to check out her blog, LyfeThruMyLens.

I’m not sure who this set of photos is by, or even if they are all from the same photographer—because the page is in Russian—but I think they’re awesome. The black and white photographs all depict scenes of Americana and were taken during the late 1930’s - 1950’s. Most seem to be based in and around New York City.

I’m not sure who this set of photos is by, or even if they are all from the same photographer—because the page is in Russian—but I think they’re awesome. The black and white photographs all depict scenes of Americana and were taken during the late 1930’s - 1950’s. Most seem to be based in and around New York City.

For the people who attended this Bruce Springsteen concert in Pasaic, NJ way back in September of 1978, I imagine the experience was akin to having lightning strike the ground three feet in front of you; the kind of experience that leaves you awe-struck and singed from the raw electricity in the air.

Not only is this one of the best Darkness on the Edge of Town performances I have ever seen, it’s one of the best performances I’ve ever seen captured. This video hammers home everything that is great about Rock & Roll, and it does so in black & white, with no flashy lights, gimmicks or camera angles. The depth of this performance isn’t manufactured in a studio by a camera man or a post-production team, it’s manufactured in the soul of a young man from Freehold, NJ who lives and breathes rock and roll because that’s all he knows how to do.

With a now legendary ability for eloquently expressing the struggles of day to day life, a staggering number of awards-20 Grammy’s, 2 Golden Globes, an Emmy, and an Academy Award, to name a few—and inductions into the Rock & Roll, Songwriting, and New Jersey Hall of Fame, you’d think that Bruce might decide to kick back and take it easy. You’d be wrong. The Boss is still out touring; rocking arenas of die-hard fans all across the globe one three hour set at a time, because as this video shows, for some people playing music isn’t what you do, it’s who you are.

“I think about you all the time but I don’t need the same. It’s lonely where you are come back down and I won’t tell em your name” - Goo Goo Dolls On a bridge laden with graffiti in one form or another, I’m not sure what drew my eye to this particular area of the Chestnut Street Bridge, but whatever it was, I’m glad it did. The photo’s subject is one of my favorite pieces of “found art” that I’ve come across here in Philadelphia; for those that say graffiti can’t possibly be an art form I suggest you Google Banksy. And like all good art should, the words got me thinking about the artist’s intent: Is it meant to be ironic? Is it a statement on graffiti culture? Is it completely random? I’ll probably never have a definitive answer and every time I cross the bridge and look at it I always change my own, but that’s what’s so cool about art; once it’s out there, it’s for the public to decide what it means.

“I think about you all the time but I don’t need the same. It’s lonely where you are come back down and I won’t tell em your name” - Goo Goo Dolls

On a bridge laden with graffiti in one form or another, I’m not sure what drew my eye to this particular area of the Chestnut Street Bridge, but whatever it was, I’m glad it did. The photo’s subject is one of my favorite pieces of “found art” that I’ve come across here in Philadelphia; for those that say graffiti can’t possibly be an art form I suggest you Google Banksy.

And like all good art should, the words got me thinking about the artist’s intent: Is it meant to be ironic? Is it a statement on graffiti culture? Is it completely random? I’ll probably never have a definitive answer and every time I cross the bridge and look at it I always change my own, but that’s what’s so cool about art; once it’s out there, it’s for the public to decide what it means.