Check out the items on sale this week at Adorama. Be sure to note the Buffalo external drives (Buffalo external drives are my current favorite) and Nik Sharpener Software. If you like to do closeup photography, look at the extension tube set for Canon EOS film and digital cameras. There are special prices an Kata bags and Kata rebates, and much more.
7/26/2009
7/20/2009
ON THE MOON: 40 YEARS AGO TODAY
NASA Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Walking on the Moon
Photo details: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the Moon near the leg of the Lunar Module (LM) “Eagle” during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA). Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the Lunar Module (LM) “Eagle” to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the Moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) “Columbia” in lunar orbit.
Sending astronauts to the moon seemed like an amazing thing in 1969. They landed 40 years ago today. Like millions of others, I was glued to the TV set.
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7/17/2009
CAPA PHOTO: FAKE OR REAL?
“Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936.”
Photo by Robert Capa
Robert Capa’s famous photo of a falling soldier during the Spanish Civil War, unquestioned for decades, has been the subject of a lot of controversy in more recent decades.
A recent Yahoo news item, based on an article in El Periodico (a Barcelona based newspaper) again question’s the authenticity of the photo.
Personally, I think biographer Richard Whelan’s article on the PBS web site is the definitive statement on the issue. Whelan maintains, based on a lot of evidence including the identity of the soldier and Capa’s whereabouts, that the photo is authentic. Read the article and see what you think.
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7/4/2009
INDEPENDENCE DAY – JULY 4
Fireworks over Yukon Oklahoma on old U.S. 66. Photo © Jim Doty, Jr.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
From the Declaration of Independence, signed July 4, 1776. Written by Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826). 3rd US President (1801-09).
To see an engraving of the original and George Washington’s personal printed copy, go here.
to read the entire declaration, click the page 2 link at the right