this is so oddly specific but I just realized that the reason I thought chrissy looked SO familiar in stranger things is because grace van dien modeled for one of my FAV photographers back when I was first really getting into portrait photography. I literally watched ALL of irene rudnyk's shooting and editing videos on youtube and remember VERY specific discourse on this picture she took of grace because she edited an entire car out of the background and replaced it with this super blurry bokeh and all the comments said it was sloppy and that she's more of an editor than a photographer if she's doing all this crazy post-processing - ANYWAY long story short this is like the most iconic irene rudnyk photo in my opinion and it is of the lovely chrissy cunningham grace van dien
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i upload the photos at 70%. they're grainy and out of focus and unrendered.
i upload the photos at 80%. they take 76 million years and 98.6% of my cpu to load.
i can't win.
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golden hour or blue hour?
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Valerio Minato's photo that won the Astronomy Picture of the Day Contest by NASA on December 25th, 2023.
In the picture: the moon, the Monviso Mount and the Basilica of Superga (on the Superga hill) outside Turin are all aligned. it took him 6 years to take this shot (and I take it as an example to never give up on your dreams).
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“My friends mom collects miniatures of designer chairs and these are some of them 😫” via twitter
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favorite pastime: staring down lightroom, hoping the pictures will just edit themselves
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Ala Ebtekar, Thirty-Six Views of the Moon (from the San Jose Museum of Art)
Cyanotype prints on found book pages exposed to moonlight.
Thirty-six Views of the Moon is a collection of night exposures, left from dusk till dawn and exposed by moonlight on book pages from texts referencing the moon and night sky spanning the last ten centuries. Working with photographic negatives of the Moon from the Lick Observatory archives in Northern California and treating each book page with Potassium ferricyanide and Ammonium ferric citrate (cyanotype) to make the surface of the page light-sensitive, the pages are then exposed overnight by the UV-light emitted by the moon. The work takes its cue from a poem by Omar Khayyam that imagines us as the objects of the Moon’s omnipresent gaze and, in response, produces a vignette of windows on the Moon that abstract the typical celestial gaze, merging galaxy with ground to collapse space and time.
(McEvoy Foundation for the Arts)
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