A Little Perspective

reposted from http://fstoppers.com, with permission from Joseph Gamble NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has relayed back images of the Earth and moon from 900 million miles away. The images, taken in a series of photos on July 19th as Saturn was backlit by the sun, portray the blue planet as a diminutive blip in a vast dark …


UK Portals

Guest post by contributor Julian Jackson. The UK has a plethora of photographic agencies and imagery sources.  These range from big organizations which have photolibraries, like the BBC, through medium-sized companies like Alamy, to a large range of specialist libraries and hundreds of museums that have awesome collections of photographs, paintings and illustrations in their …


Marvelous and Morbid

Guest post by Angelika Pirkl, posted with permission of akg-images. It is not every day that I receive an email with the somewhat surprising opening line “Hello, I am a photographer and writer who specializes in the cultural reception of death”. My attention was instantly grabbed. Staring out at me from my computer screen were …