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Touching History

Picture: Touching fossilized dinosaur tracks, near Moab, Utah. Back when I was acting in college, one of my all-time favorite scenes was performing the closing act of Inherit the Wind, the dramatized tale of the famous Scope's Monkey Trial that pit the Evolutionists against the Creationists. Yesterday it was announced…
Gary Crabbe
May 20, 2009
NewsworthyPhoto Business

A Sad Farewell to NewLab

I must have missed the earlier announcements while digging out of my huge backlog of work and new business. But today, I saw an email from the Northern California chapter of ASMP about a liquidation sale happening at the NewLab. The NewLab has posted a letter on their web site…
Gary Crabbe
May 16, 2009
NewsworthyPeoplePhotos

1400+ megapixel inauguration photo

Thanks to my friend Ross for sending me this. Photographer David Bergman as at President Obama's Inauguration. And he's got a stitched image from a Gigapan Imager to prove it. His image is made up of 220 Canon G10 photos, and measures approx. 60,000 x 25,000 pixels. Yep, it's got…
Gary Crabbe
January 23, 2009
NewsworthyPhotos

A New Beginning

Photo: Alpenglow at sunrise on North Peak, Twenty Lakes Basin, Eastern Sierra, California With a post titled "A New Beginning", you might think I would be referring to today's Inauguration of President Obama. I certainly do wish him, Us, and the planet well. However, I get to announce my own…
Gary Crabbe
January 20, 2009
NewsworthyPeoplePhotos

Her Name was Florence

Almost everyone knows the enduring photographic portrait that gave a feeling and a face to the Great American Depression. It's simply titled, "Migrant Mother", and was an image taken by Dorothea Lange while she was working for the US Government, documenting migrant farm workers. That face now has a name;…
Gary Crabbe
January 5, 2009
NewsworthyPhotos

End of the Year Big Picture Style

I love the end of the year season, when we get all the "Year in Pictures" features. The Boston Globe's BIG PICTURE has posted the first of a three part series. It is an amazing, graphic, and not so easy to look at feature. But it is a powerful display…
Gary Crabbe
December 17, 2008
Newsworthy

History is how we remember it

Photography plays an extremely important role in how we remember history. Lots of people here in the U.S. are less than thrilled with the performance of our current President, G.W. Bush. The truth is, as economic conditions spiral downwards across the globe, History may not be so kind to Mr.…
Gary Crabbe
November 20, 2008
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California Burns Again

This has been a terrible year for fires in California. I remember having to put off several shoots for my latest book project for almost a month as smoke lingered so thick across the state. Here in the middle of November, at a time when the "official" end of the…
Gary Crabbe
November 18, 2008
Newsworthy

American Selected Chosen Photography

It's a world away from the typical landscape, nature, and travel-type photography, but many consider it the 'important' photography. So for that, you might consider that it is at least worth a quick look. More on the 'quick' look in a second. But first, The American Photography Book 24 has…
Gary Crabbe
November 14, 2008
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Dawn of a New Day

Photo: Footsteps leading forward in sand dune at sunrise - at the dawn of a new day, Algodones Dunes Wilderness, Imperial County, California. I know I've posted this photo before, but it seems fitting today. You know from reading this blog that I don't involve myself in political discussions. And…
Gary Crabbe
November 5, 2008
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