Photography

We're out of town for July 4th and I caught this early morning photo of my daughter smelling the flowers.

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Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight The quote from Doctor Faustus which acts as the epitaph on it's author's grave.

Above that quote is "At this spot lie the mortal remains of Christopher Marlowe who met his untimely deaht in Deptford on May 30 1953."

Christopher Marlowe, by some accounts a spy, by others the "real" Shakespeare died in Deptford, London when he was stabbed in the eye with a knife in a pub on 30 May 1593.

Taken with in the afternoon on 30th May 2023 with a Lomography Simple Reloadable camera (f/11 + flash, 31mm, 1/120s) on Kodak Gold 200 ISO film developed at a +1 push. The flash caught the plaque and roses nicely, you can see just above that the local university students often leave pens resting by the grave in tribute to the author.

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Hobart, Tasmania

July 3, Gull Point, Quincy, MA

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Harry James Hanson and Devin Antheus spent four years traveling the US, and photographing drag legends, and sharing their stories. James Hosking, meanwhile, pays homage to three drag queens working at Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, the only gay bar left standing in the Tenderloin.

Samantha Fielding collaborates with underground personalities, and Poem Baker introduces us to two drag clown performance artists living in Southeast London. Plus, drag icon Linda Simpson tells us about her friend page and NYC in the 1980s.

https://www.featureshoot.com/2022/07/these-queens-pioneered-the-art-of-drag-now-theyre-finally-getting-their-due/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=other Donna Personna © Harry James Hanson and Devin Antheus

These Queens Pioneered the Art of Drag. Now They’re Finally Getting Their Due.

Stories of courage, resistance, and triumph run throughout Legends of Drag, the captivating book by Harry James Hanson and Devin Antheus. Throughout the decades, these artists, who ranged in age from forty-tree (Lady Red Couture) to ninety-one (Darcelle XV) at the time of their photoshoots, didn’t just bear witness to history. They helped shape it. The stories contained within these pages are vital, and even amid uncertain times, they’re often hopeful.

Olivia pauses for a cigarette in her room. © James Hosking A Look at the Lives of Three Drag Queens in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District

Meet Donna Personna, Collette LeGrande, and Olivia Hart—three drag queens at the historic Aunt Charlie’s Lounge. The photographer James Hosking was endeared to Aunt Charlie’s, which he discovered in an alternative newspaper, in part because of its “can-do” atmosphere. The iconic club has no windows and no stage, and the queens must wind in and out of the crowd during their sets. They choose their own songs.

Despite the demanding nature of their work, Hosking explains that it is profoundly therapeutic. It offers Donna a reason to confront her anxieties head-on, Olivia a motivation to stay sober, and Collette a way to express herself and her femininity. More than just a means to make a living, drag is an enduring and lifelong passion. “I think they’d miss it if they stopped,” says Hosking.

Vic © Charley Murrell Portraits of Drag Devotees Dressed as Both Genders

In this series, Charley Murrell photographs drag performers at home, beautifully embodying different personas. Ridge Gallagher © Sam Fielding Photographing Drag Queens, and Burlesque Stars Around the World

When night falls and the suits and ties have all been tucked away, a magical world emerges from the darkness, setting the cities of London, Berlin, Paris, New York, Las Vegas, LA, and San Francisco ablaze as the rest of the world sleeps. This is the realm of the night performer, the drag queen or king, the burlesque dancer, the fetish artist, and Samantha Fielding, who has devoted years of her life to photographing drag queens and underground performers. © Poem Baker

Meet the Fabulous Drag Clowns of London

The photographer Poem Baker first discovered the “Jungola Klownz”—aka Tuttii Fruittii and Toni Tits—while delving deep into the city’s underground art world. The photographer was so utterly taken with Tuttii and Toni, who are inspired by everything from queer to clown culture, that she asked to follow them home and into their workaday lives. Routine goings-on for “the girls,” as Baker calls them, are anything but quotidian. Everything from eating breakfast to thrifting is met with the finesse and joie de vivre of a night on stage

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From the historic archives of NASA to the edges of the planet Earth, this collection of extraordinary night photography explores the magical reaches of the starry sky. Travel across Finnish Lapland, through the American West, to the ancient landscapes of Botswana, across the deserts of Sinai and Israel, and up through the mountains of Alaska.

The Small Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy that flanks the Milky Way about 210,000 light years away from us. This 2013 composite image of the galaxy’s wing shows a region with stars containing fewer metals and less dust and gas than the Milky Way. The Chandra’s X-ray data is shown in purple, while visible data from the Hubble Space Telescope is shown in red, green, and blue. Infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope is also revealed in red. From from Earth and Space: Photographs from the Archives of NASA by Nirmala Nataraj, published by Chronicle Books, 2015.

‘Earth and Space’ Photo Book

is Full of Astonishing Vistas from NASA’s Archives

Earth and Space

by Chronicle Books is a collection of the most unforgettable photos from NASA’s treasured archives. Prefaced by Bill Nye of Science Guy stardom and introduced by author Nirmala Nataraj, Earth and Space takes our planet as its point of departure, moving sequentially through the universe and ultimately resting on clusters of galaxies colliding at a distance of 5.4 billion light years from where we stand.

Flattop Mountain, Alaska © Kerry Tasker Kerry Tasker’s Celestial Night Photography Makes Planet Earth Look Like the Moon

“It’s almost like the environment knows you’re there but doesn’t care,” says Anchorage-based photographer Kerry Tasker of the Alaskan terrain. The land is feral and ferocious; he’s dropped his camera from a perilous cliff, and the bitter cold has annihilated its batteries. Still, he’s been torn time and again from the safety of home into the rugged wilderness, standing cold and alone, under a charcoal sky dotted with faraway stars.

Starry Grove, 1999 © Neil Folberg / Vision Neil Folberg Gallery Neil Folberg Photographs the Deserts of Sinai and Israel Illuminated by Starlight

Under the shroud of night, Jerusalem-based photographer Neil Folberg traverses Galilee and the Negev and Sinai deserts in Israel and Egypt alone and by foot, watching as the stars and clouds dance across the sky. From the late 1990s until the early 2000s, he spent four years of sunsets and sunrises capturing the shadows as they descended silently upon the historic terrain. © Reuben Wu Eerie Night Photography by Reuben Wu Will Make You See the Planet in a Whole New Light

https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/02/these-eerie-photos-will-make-you-see-the-planet-in-a-whole-new-light/ “My nights are full of silence and the occasional howl of coyote,” the photographer Reuben Wu tells me. His series Lux Noctis has taken him to some of the most isolated regions in the American West, as well as remote spots in Europe and South America, under the cover of darkness. He flies a drone to light his way, illuminating sections of the landscape at will.

© Tiina Törmänen Tiina Törmänen Captures the Magic of Wintertime in Finnish Lapland

When she was a little girl, photographer Tiina Törmänen built castles out of snow. She spent her childhood in Finland’s Southern Lapland, surrounded by lakes and forests, and each winter, she dug tunnels, doorways, and rooms, illuminated by flickering candlelight. Winter is still her favorite season. When the snow falls, she bundles up and wanders into the unknown terrain.

Hercules © Beth Moon Behold Ancient African Trees in the Night Photography of Beth Moon

The San Francisco-based photographer Beth Moon has spent more than a decade of her life hunting down our planet’s oldest trees, chasing them to their isolated and solitary bowers at the edges of civilization. After devoting fourteen years to shooting ancient trees by day, the photographer embarked on Diamond Nights, for which she captured the looming plants under the black shroud of midnight and illuminated by a dusting of twinkling stars. The darkness, she remembers, was so thick that she was unable to see her own hands.

Playing with minimalism, limited light and macro shots early this morning.

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This shot was from one of the most spectacular views I’ve ever seen. Kearsarge Pass, CA.

Took this some time ago in northern Spain on the Mediterranean coast. I also really liked the contrast of sunlit to shadowed landscape.

Comin from reddit. Glad to find a photo community. Happy to share my first image here. :)

Checked out the Castillo de San Marco and was struck by all of the bullet and cannon holes right there in the masonry. Looking at the photo afterwards sort of brought to mind some alien landscape from above. Liked the detail there!

Visiting St. Augustine and walked under this nice trellis. This little flower was hanging out below the rest of the growth - I liked it!