January 20, 2010 @ 2:48 pm
Luke Sharrett, an intern at The Times’ Washington bureau, considered himself lucky when he couldn’t get into the inauguration ceremonies last year. Instead of capturing photos of the President and his staff, Luke went around Washington and captured the spirit of the city as it welcomed in the nation’s first black President.
A year later, Luke went back to some of the places he photographed and put the two photographs side by side for comparison. Lens has some good examples of this series to check out.
April 9, 2009 @ 9:01 pm
My friend Albert Cheung has been selected as one of the photographers to exhibit at the brand-new Sky House in New York City’s Flatiron District. Albert will be showing a body of work taken at this year’s Presidential inauguration (which I’ve posted about previously).
The images are absolutely amazing and it’d be great if you all could head on over to Sky House to show some support — to him and to the other artists. A part of the proceeds from any sale at the exhibition will go to benefit APEX, a NYC organization that gives mentoring and educational services to Asian-American youth.
So head on over to Sky House on May 2, 2009 @ 2-6PM to see the work up close and in person.
The map to get there is embedded below.
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January 23, 2009 @ 6:49 am
Gigapan is hosting an impressive gigapixel image taken by David Bergman of the 2009 Presidential Inauguration on January 20th. The image is composed of 220 separate images making a final image with a size of 59,783 X 24,658 pixels. That’s roughly 1.47 gigapixels!
Like most gigapixel images, you can zoom in rather closely to any part of the picture above and get a pretty close view of people’s faces. Give it a try and pan around the place. Maybe you’ll find someone you know!
Oh, and if you click on the smaller images at the bottom of the gigapixel picture, you can zoom in to designated bookmarks that people have selected. One of the bookmarks zooms you into a little joke that a stagehand wrote on gaff tape on one of the support bars. Kinda funny. Haha.
January 21, 2009 @ 2:11 pm
There’s been a lot of different kinds of media coming out of the inauguration ceremonies and lots of different ways to display it. Some choose to show it straight forward (picture by picture) while others take a more interactive approach.
I really think CNN did a fantastic job of incorporating Microsoft’s Photosynth technology in order to construct a 3D-ish environment of the Capitol building and its surrounding enclosures. CNN allows people to send in their own photographs to be included in this huge collection if images and once submitted, the image is sorted by Photosynth and smartly aggregated based on its content and area. The result is a multi-viewed look at the inaugural ceremonies from literally thousands of different cameras and perspectives — all at once.
This is what I love about the internet and its ability to connect people. And seriously, this is the most fun way to present an immensely large collection of photographs of very similar subjects. Check it out!
January 21, 2009 @ 12:18 pm
My friend Albert has been in the nation’s capital for the past few days photographing all the events and people that have gone there to celebrate the inauguration of President Barack Obama. He is continuously posting pictures on his website, so if you want a personal look at the festivities going on around Washington, D.C., then hit up his page and check out the pictures.
