The Dear Photograph website collects user-submitted photos of a photo from the past in the present, and some great photos have been submitted.

Dear photograph
Some things never change
mikaelagallagher

Head over to the Dear Photograph website, and browse through their collection. Alternatively, dig out some of your old photos, and take your own photos to submit to the website.



The Young Me / Now Me website has user-submitted pairs of photos - where one photo is of the person or people from years ago, and the second photo is of the same person or people in the same location.

Photographer Irina Werning's Back to the Future project takes the concept a step further, taking old photos of people, and then re-creating the scene with the now-older person, using similar looking clothes, hairstyles, lighting and backgrounds.
(Note: some photos in the Irina's collection are NSFW.)



Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg have found a new use for animated gifs, using them to create some very interesting photos with subtle animation that they call "Cinemagraphs".

Have an adventurous weekend, by Jamie Beck

For more examples of these cinemagraphs, head over to Jamie's blog, or see this journal post on redbubble.com with more info and links to tutorials on creating your own cinemagraphs.



For all you keen photographers, you can now buy a piggy bank in the shape of a DSLR camera, called the DSLR Bank.

To help you dream about photography, you can also buy lens pillows, with a wide selection of different lenses available.

Early on last week Saturday morning, a few brave souls ventured out to Kings Park to catch the sunrise.
There was some low-lying fog over the city, river and the hills, which provided some interesting views as the sun rose behind the city. This shot was taken just after sunrise, with the sun just off the left of the frame, and a lone boat in the river providing some interesting ripples in the water.

Swan River at sunrise

Kings Park, Western Australia, 2011-07-16
Canon EOS 50D, 24-70mm f/2.8L @50mm, 1/200 sec, f/5.6, ISO100

We have been breeding Gouldian finches for several years. A few weeks ago, I decided to try to get some photos of a parent Gouldian finch feeding one of their young babies. The young finches were a little shy, and here's one of them hiding behind a leaf.

baby Gouldian finch peering through a leaf

back yard at home, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 70-200mm f/4L @188mm, 1/100 sec, f/4, ISO200

These baby finches had only been out of the nest for a week or so, and were still demanding to be fed by their parents. Before too long, I was snapping photos of the father Gouldian finch feeding one of his brood (photo below).

male Gouldian finch feeding a young finch

back yard at home, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 70-200mm f/4L @135mm, 1/100 sec, f/4, ISO200

After reading a recent post by Jason, where he analyses the focal lengths he uses, I was inspired to do something similar.
I performed a similar analysis on all the photos I took in 2010, looking at which lenses I used most, and the focal lengths used. This was done in light of the fact that I have been thinking about maybe selling one of my lenses and getting one covering a slightly different focal length.



ExposurePlot is a useful application for performing analysis on your photos. Just point it at a directory of your photos, and it reads the EXIF data in all the photos in that directory and subdirectories, and generates graphs of the data.

The command-line exiftool provides similar functionality, but requires a little more effort to process the results.
For example, to extract the focal lengths of all photos and dump the results into a text file (recursively going through all subdirectories looking for photos), the following syntax can be used:

exiftool -r -focallength * > focallengths.txt 

If you are a Lightroom user, Lightroom can report various statistics by lens, aperture, focal length, and more. Just click the filter combo at the top right, and select "Metadata" to view the filter criteria.



During 2010, I took photos on numerous work-related interstate trips, visiting Sydney (twice), Adelaide (three times), Brisbane, Gold Coast, Roxby Downs, as well as a road trip through various locations in NSW, including Newcastle, Wollongong, Nowra and Botany Bay.
I also shot one wedding, did one family shoot, and took plenty of photos on several holidays with my own family.

moth and everlasting flower

Lesmurdie Falls National Park, Lesmurdie, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 24-70mm f/2.8L @70mm, 1/1000 sec, f/4.5, ISO400