July 3rd, 2009

American Flag

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Part of a personal portfolio of images of American flags, viewable on Lindsay’s Web site. Lindsay writes, “These photographs represent an ongoing collection of  images taken throughtout the U.S. Prominent in the photo or not, vibrant, desaturated, tattered or torn, the iconic symbol of the American flag represents every emotion from pride, to pain, to personal victory.”

July 2nd, 2009

Superman

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Caption – Professional mountain biker Paul Basagoitia performing a superman seat grab on his mountain bike at his private track in Minden, NV under dark clouds at sunset.
Photo by Scott Markewitz / Wonderful Machine <http://www.wonderfulmachine.com/links/scott_markewitz.html?utm_source=wm_website&amp;utm_medium=scott_markewitz&amp;utm_campaign=wm_email>

Photo by Scott Markewitz / Wonderful Machine

Professional mountain biker Paul Basagoitia performing a superman seat grab on his mountain bike at his private track in Minden, NV under dark clouds at sunset.

July 1st, 2009

Gogol Bordello at Coachella

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Photo by Ryan Mastro.

Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello steps into the crowd at the 2008 Coachella Music & Arts Festival. This picture won first place in the Crowd category of the PDN/Billboard Year in Music Moment Photo Contest. View more winners in the photo gallery here.

June 30th, 2009

Madonna Meets The Press 1980

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Photo by Brad Elterman.

Elterman writes:

“I was hired by Dick Clark’s press agent to cover the American Music Awards nearly every year for a decade. I had incredible access and I wanted to make a great photograph of this new singer called Madonna. There is little potential to be creative in this small area, but it made a wonderful photograph.”

Elterman’s celebrity photography is on view in an exhibition called ”Like It Was Yesterday” at Equator Books, 1103 Abbot Kinney Blvd.,Venice, California. The show was recently extended through July 23.

June 29th, 2009

Sarychev Volcano

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Photo: NASA Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center

This photograph of the erupting Sarychev Volcano was taken June 12 by an astronaut on the International Space Station. Sarychev, on the northwestern end of Matua Island, is one of the most active volcanoes in the Kuril Island chain, northeast of Japan. The photo was taken with a Nikon D2XS digital camera fitted with a 400 mm lens. More information about the volcanic phenomena seen in this image is at the NASA Earth Observatory.