© Fernando Souto, central Australia, The End of the Trail, 2007, silver gelatin print, 15×22in (38×56cm).

Souto’s “The End of the Trail” series is on exhibition this fall at Smack Mellon Gallery, 92 Plymouth Street at Washington Street, Brooklyn, New York. The show runs from September 26 to November 8. An opening reception is Saturday, September 26 from 5 to 8 p.m.

Inspired by the life of his grandmother, “The End of the Trail” documents the fading culture of the present-day cowboy in countries with deep ranching traditions. The photographs on show are part of a continuing series that were shot in Australia, Uruguay and the United States.

© Noriko Furunishi, Courtesy Murray Guy, New York/Courtesy of Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Furunishi’s work is the inaugural exhibition in “New Pictures,” a semi-annual series of work by emerging photographers at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Born in Japan and living in Los Angeles, Furunishi uses a 4 x 5 camera to shoot images of a particular geographical site from multiple perspectives, which she digitally stitches together into what appears to be a continuous landscape.

The show runs from September 17 to January 30, 2010, at MIA, 2400 Third Avenue South in Minneapolis. More information here.

© Eric Meola

Work from Eric Meola’s recent book India: In Word and Image is on display at the New York Art Directors Club,  106 West 29th Street, New York, NY. An opening reception is tonight (September 14) from 6 to 8:30 p.m., and the exhibition runs until September 18. More information.

©2009 Stefano Unterthiner / National Geographic

Photos from “Every Bird a King,” a story in National Geographic’s September 2009 issue. Above: As sure as moonrise over Possession Island, king penguins gather each year for “ecstatic display.” Puffing their chests, lifting their heads, and belting out calls, birds of both sexes advertise themselves. Before long, pairs form and join a crowd, and breeding season is on.

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Planetary nebula NGC 6302, commonly known as the Bug Nebula or Butterfly Nebula. NGC 6302 lies within the Milky Way, roughly 3,800 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. The glowing gas is the star’s outer layers, expelled over about 2,200 years.

Each of these Hubble images is a composite of separate monochromatic exposures of narrow wavelength ranges. The colors result from assigning different hues to each wavelength range. NASA released these images on September 9, 2009, to show off the capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), which astronauts installed during a servicing mission last May.

Credit for all: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

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