"Vancouver City" music video is an artistic collaboration between Innerlife Project and TimeLapseHD. Linda Ganzini's beautiful and haunting vocals blend with the unique musical style of Serge Chubinski-Orlov who produced and wrote Vancouver City. For more information and music downloads go to www.innerlifeproject.com
These time lapses are shot with a 12 mega pixel digital single lens reflex cameras. Original resolution is 6 times better then HD (high definition). The images have been resized for HD and are much better quality then shown here on YouTube.

I like some of the timelapse photography, but the music and the editing is very cheesy, but I suppose thats the corporate look they are going for.

Born Into Brothels (Calcutta's Red Light Kids) is a 2004 American documentary film about the children of prostitutes in Sonagachi, Calcutta's red light district. The widely acclaimed film, written and directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, won a string of accolades including the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2004.

 

One of the most powerful documentaries I have seen in a long time. There seams to be a compassion fatigue for such images, and help doesn't always get where it is needed. This is a fantastic example of how one photographer has tried to help. 

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal."

The Exhibition is in the National Portrait Gallery from the 5th of November 2009-14 February 2010. The selection on show are 60 works selected from more than 6,300 images-Thats loads! Therefore it seams a disappointment to see some photographs that you may wonder why they are there? And make you think why did they pick the winners they did?

I will not tell you the winners, but share with you some thoughts. As the leaflet states the work is from professionals, students and amateurs and covers a wide range of work. The quality is exceptional you can't depute that, as photography is subjetive they are as many reading of an image as people, but the exhibition seamed to have a agenda with the choice, rather than an organic feel. Not having seen any of the 6,240 images that did not make it into the exhibition, it would wrong of me misunderstand the complexity of choosing what to hang. As a gallery it would be wrong to show 25 pictures of a six year old with a cat, evan if those 25 where the best work anybody has ever seen, and individually every one would make you weep with joy. You would have to pick one (or maybe two). 

If you are thinking about entering next year one of these competitions, I have some advice, pick a category that is not popular and take the best photo you can to increase your odds. 

At the top was the least interesting portrait of the whole show- Sarah Waters, by Ric Bower

You could forgive the dullness of the image, if it was not for the text describing the image. "the image is a result of an intense artistic process with Walters as a willing collaborator" I can't think of anything more bum kissy.

On the right is Scott by David Graham, I love this photograph, Mainly because of the use of the white door as a back ground and the look that Scott gives to the camera has such a serenity, you can almost feel you are there in that tight space with the inevitability of the end.

One of my other favorites was Huong, 19 in Hanol, From the series A war's Legacy- Birth Defects in Vietnam by Adam Nadel. For me the composition was interesting to me, as Hanol was slightly placed in the frame at the bottom right. As Hanol as no eyes, it was difficult to to know where to look, your eyes moved around the frame and landed neatly square in the face,this was then repeated due to the composition I became aware of my own eyes. This may have not been the intention of the photographer, but if it was subtly placed there it would have been why this photograph was so successful.

Elliott Erwitt’s Rome

The first exposition I saw on first entering Paris Photo was one of the best. The Daniel Blau Photography Gallery was exhibiting vintage Images from the NASA I celebration of 40 years anniversary of the moon landing.

The exposition contained a panoramic “Moon Surface, Day 320”, Nov. 16, 1967.

I managed to get a poster, to my great distress has got a little crumpled in the journey; I will be framing the poster soon. If you would like to buy the original it would set you back £40,000!

The description is fascinating it is a “vintage collage of gelatin silver prints from digitally transmitted data” what exactly does this mean?

I remember watching on TV a program about how the first images from the first mars mission where received-sent by radio the first pictures where numbers that correlated to grid of paper hung on the wall, as these numbers returned scientists would colour in the grid on the paper with the corresponding shade.  So are these images made in the traditional print format, from a digital camera then transmitted, or a radio signal then assembled in a computer then printed traditional? I think it would be interesting to find out.

It was also a pleasure to “the earth from space and Neil Armstrong on the Moon, even though these images have been seen everywhere on TV and on the internet, they seamed more magical. The images that I was seeing on the wall where maybe only twice removed from reality.

I guess I mean that in the same way that people are said to have six degrees of separation, being close to such a powerful event such as the moon landing is impossible. First contact would be actually taking the photograph. Second would be viewing the photograph and third would be viewing a copy of the photograph on TV/Internet or seeing it in print form.