Critical Focus: Three Photoblogs to Watch
Published May 29, 2005
This is the site of Vinna Laudico from Montreal, Canada and is promised to be "updated frequently" which it is. Today there was a series of flower close-ups. Flowers, as I write when I publish an album of them, are a dangerous thing. It is a little like showing pictures of the family pet, your children, or a nude girlfriend. They are the stuff of amateurs and can be sappy, badly seen and boring with very little effort.
These are not. They are well seen, easily navigated, load quickly and the website includes some interesting links to other photoblogs. It is, after all, where I found C41 and Myopic.
I was referred to DYSWIS from Concientious Photography and keep a link on my blog since I stop in to see what he has seen on a regular basis. Give it a look.
The third is unlike the other two but dissimilarities is the name of the game. It is the website of Michael Julius, born 1971, itinerant photographer, and Putnam County, NY Paramedic. That is his "About" information at
Myopic
In today's image a news shot of two EMS paramedics look under an overturned car for victims. Somehow the view creates an abstract of colors and shaved heads, one Black, one White, one with an ear ring. It is vivid and lasting. There is no blood and yet the pathos of hideous accidents and lives in the balance hangs over the pretty picture. The man has talent and compassion.
Continue the search. Photography is the medium of the age and since it was coupled with the computer and the internet, there is so much to find out there in cyberspace.
- Critical Focus: Three Photoblogs to Watch
- Published: May 29, 2005
- Type: Review
- Section: Culture
- Filed Under: Culture: Arts, Books: Arts
- Writer: Howard Dratch
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