Screwtop Winebottle

45-year-old Tibetan head monk, 5 feet 5 inches tall, 158 lbs, typical daily caloric intake: 4,900 calories. Some food staples: Butter tea, dried cheese curds, barley flour cake, noodle soup with potato. Image copyright Peter Menzel, menzelphoto.com

I could not love this book idea more, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. [via brainpickings]

Part Food, Inc., part FridgeWatcher, the project is a potent antidote to Neil Burgess’s recent rant about the death of photojournalism — What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets is a bundle of storytelling and humanity that unravels itself before your eyes, leaving you hungry to better understand the correlation between food, environment and quality of life.

2400x1500 section from a full crop. Nikon D3S, ISO 200, 1/750, f/8, 14mm focal length.

Nikon gear currently kept aboard the ISS includes:
- 1 Nikon D3S
- 8 Nikon D2XS (modified per NASA requirements and used for recording extravehicular activities)
- 36 Nikkor lenses (including three teleconverters)
- 7 SB-800 Speedlights
- 4 D2XS eyepieces (yepieces made exclusively for NASA that enable image framing through a space helmet

More photos and info at robgalbraith.com.

Wouldn’t it be cool if my D90 could meter with old AI lenses? Enter this $35 user installable Dandelion chip kit.

Here, here, here, here.

Last June I placed some photographic film into a tin cannister with a small hole punched into its side. The tin cannister was then attached to a clothes pole in my backgarden and left.

This afternoon I fetched the cannister and took the photographic film out. My son John scanned the photographic film and with the aid of some image software made the image negative. The result is the picture above. The picture clearly shows the path of the sun through the sky over the last six months. I believe you can see we didn`t have a great summer by the broken lines at the top. More sun shone in the month of October.

This has been a fascinating simple project that was carried out very easily. If you want to try out the project then follow the link below. In a few weeks time it will be the winter solstice when the sun will be in its lowest arc across the sky. Try it out over the next six months and make a record of the sun`s path yourself.

Solar Path Experiment

[helpmyphysics.co.uk] via [gizmodo]

So wonderful.

I never take portraits but I would love to take one of the wonderful actor Joss Ackland. Photo from Henley Literary Festival website.

Stefan Schönfeld

Strange & beautiful black and white photography.

Amazing photo from US Forest Service Archive. Find inspired by A Continuous Lean.