collections

eyewear

I wrote about supabomba’s awesome collection of weird vintage photos awhile back, but I wanted to post a few from the eyewear set. I love eyeglasses, especially vintage glasses, and some of these are just amazing. Check out some of my favourites and definitely check out the full set as well as the other amazing collections on supabomba’s flickr:

out here over there

You know what I love? Big pictures. I came across this blog out here over there, and from what I can tell it appears to be the work of three photographers, Simon Nunn, Sophie Curtis, and Alex Howard. And it has really big pictures. It’s amazing. What a great idea too, to get together with a couple of your photog friends and start a blog.

One thing we always learned studying photography in school is that people like large photos but they’re afraid of them. I don’t know why, I guess they are used to 4×6 proof size photos that you get from Walmart and you stick in a photo album, and everything else seems risky. But sometimes, seeing a larger photo just has more impact.

Check out some random favourites I had from the site:

light leak shots

I found this post on abduzeedo.com (tagline, abducted by design, cute) about light leak shots and I wanted to share it. Light leak is pretty much what it sounds like- light leaks into the camera and over-exposes the film. Usually this sort of thing happens with plastic cameras like the Lomo or the Holga, but it can happen with any old camera that’s not in perfect shape. People often think it ruins the shot, but sometimes it can be one of those accidents that make a photo look good. It’s a kind of look that you only see with film, so you don’t really see a lot of it these days. It’s nostalgic, in a way, because I remember seeing shots like this all the time.

Here are some of my favourites, but check out the post because there’s a lot more:

plastic life

This photo series “Plastic Life” has been circulating for some time now, but I thought I’d post it anyway since it’s pretty cool and funny, not to mention that it makes me want to get out my macro lens. The photographer is Vincent Bousserez. Check out some of my favourites below. There’s so many good ones though, so you should go check out the flickr set for more!

jpg photo challenge: silhouettes

Not only is JPG a cool magazine, but they have photo challenges too that they post about on their blog. If you’re looking for something to shoot but you don’t know what, JPG can help give you some direction. Check out some of the favourites from the Photo Challenge: Silhouettes:

grunge photography

I came across this post called 100 Striking Examples of Grunge Photography on websdesignerdepot.com, and I had to check it out because I wasn’t quite sure what “grunge photography” was. Turns out, it’s pretty cool. You have to check out the list, there’s a bunch of awesome images. I love that distressed, dirty, faded look. Check out some of my faves:

awkward family photos

I love finding photo stuff like this. Awkward Family Photos is a blog dedicated to, well, awkward family photos. We’ve all been in them at some point, so everyone can relate. They’re funny, and you want to laugh at them, but at the same time, they’re kind of cute because you know how much the people in the photos really wanted to get a great picture for their family. Check out some of my favourites and go visit the site to see more, it seems to be updated pretty frequently:

deleted images

I came across this cool and strange collection of photos on a website called Deleted Images. The tagline is “The Junkyard of Art” which I thought was really clever. I’ll copy the description from the site rather than paraphrase:

This is the place where unfocused, blurry and unsharp images come back to life. Have another look at those images on your camera you would delete normally. Those images can be very beautiful. In fact sometimes it are truly works of art.

Such a great idea. You can also submit your own photos on the site to be added to the list. Here’s a random sampling of some I liked to give you an idea:

gangs

One thing I love about flickr is that you get to see the strangest photo sets that people have collected. I randomly came across this one called Gangs and thought it was amazing. Check out some of the photos in it and visit photobomba’s huge collection of weird and vintage photo sets.