From my beautiful friend Sarah's wedding

From 163 Bank St., New York, NY

From Geoff Dyer's "But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz" - (my xmas gift to my sister)

Abelardo Morell

abelardomorell.net

Beautiful - Tribute in Light

original viewed on http://lapuravidagallery.tumblr.com/

Tribute in Light, 2010 from Cary Conover on Vimeo.

Robert Maxwell

"Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism."

Alec Soth (here is the rest of the interview)

"Every woman is a volume of stories, a catalogue of movements, a spectacular array of images." - Chabon The Mysteries of Pittsburg

Hocking Hills, OH

Maine, Sept 2010

Alexander Gronsky

These are so beautiful to me...

Less Than 1 - "Less than 1 person per square kilometer is an average population of Russia's outmost regions in which this project was made" (from his website)

Gronsky's other project The Edge was recognized by Aperture with the 2009 portfolio prize.

"We are so distracted by and engulfed by the technologies we've created, and by the constant barrage of so-called information that comes our way, that more than ever to immerse yourself in an involving book seems socially useful... The place of stillness that you have to go to write, but also read seriously, is the point where you can actually make responsible decisions, where you can actually engage productively with an otherwise scary and unmanageable world"

Jonathan Franzen, TIME

Jonathan Williams

Montauk, NY

Photos © friends

Chromolithography

The November Meteors - As observed between midnight and 5 o'clock A.M. on the night of November 13-14 1868 -

--

João Canziani

Zoltán Vancsó

"the gaze which creates perceptible reality anew and shows us unusual connections"

http://www.photovancso.com/

Stonehenge - 2008, UK

Brooklyn, NY

August 2009 (?) - Niagara Falls, CN

Nymphoto interview with Amanda Marsalis (full text, here)

"NP: Where do you find inspiration?

AM: That is a hard question to answer. My first instinct is to say light – even to say love. When I love someone or something, I want to take a picture. When the light is beautiful, I want to take a picture. I would put Joan Didion on my list of inspirations, along with great meals, bands I love, the Met on a Sunday afternoon. It is so open though..."






P.S.>> I'm almost done with Miranda July's book "No One Belongs Here More Than You". It's a complex little collection of short stories. It's worth the read.

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Nadine Rovner

Nadine Rovner

via la pura vida gallery tumbler

Andrew B. Myers

Andrew B. Myers -- Toronto based photog -- & still a student -- reminds me of the washed-out graphic style of one of my favorite photographers, Nick Meek

Simon Roberts: Lens Culture Conversations with Photographers from Jim Casper on Vimeo.

"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth" Roland Barthes preface to "Mythologies"

"If you weren’t a painter, what would you be doing?

Probably delivering pizzas or murdering people. I don’t know. I couldn’t imagine my life without being able to make things that I fall in love with."

Anthony Lister interview w Anthem, here

Photos i found on my desktop that my mom took in florida last year.

Martin Parr

© Martin Parr -- great interview w him here via lens culture

My Grandfather wore that sweater and that tie

James Welling

"...Appearance and illusion, the reality of the camera and the photographic print, what we see or think we see, perception and how things are revealed photographically have always been in dialogue in his work. " (more from his "Glass House" series here)

IT'S THE NEW YEAR AND I NEED TO START WRITING MORE ON THIS THING AGAIN!

© Arnaud Pyvka

Angelina Jolie, you used to be so interesting. Why did you stop?

Gorgeous photos © Gilles Bensimon

:..I enjoyed my meal as I watched the sun's descent in a cloudless sky. It was a relaxing moment. The vault of the world was magnificently tinted. The stars were eager to participate; hardly had the blanket of colour been pulled a little then they started to shine through the deep blue. The wind blew with a faint, warm breeze and the sea moved about kindly, the water peaking and troughing like people dancing in a circle who come together and rise their hands and more apart and come together again, over and over..:

Beautiful; Life of Pi; stillll reading this book

2010: What I hope to do in the New Year,

- go to sleep early; get up early

- yoga/exercise/meditation more often

- read more; spend less time online/on my computer

- eat wholesomely with care

- speak with confidence

- speak with love

- take more pictures