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Night Shuttle Family Portrait

Night Shuttle Family Portrait by Jon M. Fletcher In case some of you have wondered, I haven’t been talking much about photography lately in my blog. Even though I’ve been heads down in programming lately, I’ve still been trying to keep up to date with my photo-instructional surfing. With great blogs like Strobist combined with Google Reader, this is fairly easy.

The Strobist blog has a great analysis of how this Florida-based photographer got this one-shot family portrait in without losing his hair. Check out the Night Shuttle blog entry at Strobist for the details.

Photo Site Alert – Crime Scene Photography blog

image Ok, I?ll have to admit that I?m drawn to this site since my first paying gigs in photography was a forensic photographer to local attorneys documenting construction defects. That being said, this is a fun little site that combines evidentiary job listings along with mini-tutorials. Started only in November of last year, the Crime Scene Photography blog has great potential if they can keep it up.

I find it interest too that it appears they are just up the road from me. Their first posting is about a photo class starting at Golden West College just up the road from me. Hmmm?. Wonder if I can squeeze a little time out of my schedule this spring to attend? I also like their (admittedly short right now) link list of interest to those who document crime scenes photographically.

Have you ever fancied yourself entering the world of crime scene photography? Perhaps this is a great place to start!

Great Photographic Resource

image In case you hadn?t seen it yet, Google is now hosting the Life magazine photo archive. You can search on the cutlines of images, the locations of the photographs, the subject of the photo and best of all to those doing photographic research, the photographer?s name! 

The archive boasts photos taken from the 1850s to today. Interestingly, Googles blurb about the archive states that you can

?Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.?  

which might be a bit difficult since photography is generally accepted as starting in the 1820s. I think perhaps they meant their archive dates to the 1850s to today.

Here are some searches that I recently that turned up images by many of my photographic heroes: