Blog About Photography

The Offi­cial White House Photo Stream on Flickr. Just launched in the past cou­ple of days. Pho­tos by White House Pho­tog­ra­pher Pete Souza. What a sweet gig that guy has.

That’s me last sum­mer on Bryan Schut­maat’s shoul­ders, try­ing to take this pic­ture of a dead thing:

I really should redo this.

This is an amaz­ing video that com­pares films taken on the streets of Barcelona 100 years ago with video taken on those same streets today. The infra­struc­ture blog that brought this to my atten­tion is more focused on how the peo­ple used the streets a cen­tury ago ver­sus now, but I’m of course just inter­ested in the com­par­isons, what is still here, what is gone, what the city was used for then, what is it used for now. It’s mezmer­iz­ing. Give it a look.