Photos from books.

Ed Panar's Animals That Saw Me

Alessandra Sanguinetti from The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams.

Office birdsI

In that little picture, you can almost see the hawk that was in my office when I got back from my lunch break. It had been in there for a while, and Justin had hoped that having the lights off would convince it to leave.

I figured out that it was a juvenile Cooper's Hawk, mostly because of the banding on the tail and the striped body (which, along with habitat, seemed good enough to say it wasn't a Sharp Shinned), then spent twenty minutes desperately trying to figure out how to clear it from the rafters. I tried playing Cooper's Hawk sounds, especially nesting ones outside the door, but the damned thing only flitted around to where it could tell I was just holding a laptop to fool it. Eventually, I gave another shot with the darkness, sitting for ten minutes in the black silently, until it finally just took off.

So I go to close the big door that let it in, and as soon as I've done that, a pigeon that was hiding under a half-loft and blanket comes flapping out. My guess is that the hawk chased it in here, and then was looking for it until it decided to split.

But the pigeon's not nearly as peripatetic — it's avoided all my attempts to spook it out, including shooting a bunch of rubber bands at it. It let a couple bounce off before making a half-assed circuit around the room and returning to the same spot. Thanks.

Pictures of Detroit

Guardian Building.





Buildings of Detroit

Crazy-ass Angelfire site.

Parks service.

Tapirs!

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Attacked by weasels?

I was finally changing the tires on my bike yesterday, and while trying to unstick the rear wheel from that bent fork I've got, the handlebars turned and the bike tipped, raking the gears down my leg. My first impulse, of course, was to take pictures.

From the weird wilds

Anza Borrega shots with some color correx.

Tigermask

Red, the blood of angry men!

Trichromie uses RGB filters on three B/W images, then runs them through a software overlay to create a composite color image.

I RON IC

Steve Ahlgren takes maybe ironic pictures of modern, generally corporate spaces.

Accidental Mysteries

Snapshots from Accidental Mysteries.

Hyenas

Even though it's totally in that danger area of Exoticizing The Other for me (not necessarily for him), I love Pieter Hugo's work, especially the hyena series. I mean, part of the danger is because hyenas just look so goddamned weird to me, these wrong dogs, but even with dogs these would be powerful images.

Roger Ballen

Loving Roger Ballen's series of boarding house photos, including this one. Granuaid had another great piece from him. via.

Shen Wei

Shin Wei: Her two bodies of work displayed, Almost Naked and Chinese Sentiment, primarily portraiture and landscape respectively, are muted meditations on Chinese and Chinese-American identity.

While I think that each set suffers from over-abundance (sometimes, it's not clear what the unifying premise behind Almost Naked is), there are still hundreds of great shots there.

Black box

Brice Bischoff has a fantastic series of abstract photographs taken through light leaks in a cardboard box.

12 Ocular Landscapes by Aaron Rosenstreich

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NSF (your) W

I started with ffffound and stumbled through a bunch of nude photo (often tumblr) blogs.

So, now I've got these open tabs…
Modfetish, Tumview Keng, The Trembler, Indie Porn tumblr.