Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • World Powers Photos

    Pendant la session d’ouverture des Nations Unies en septembre dernier à New York, Platon, photographe pour le New Yorker et connu pour quelques portraits réussis de Poutine par exemple, a installé un studio dans l’immeuble des Nations Unis pour y photographier les grands de ce monde qui passaient là. Il a maintenant rassemblé ces photographies…

  • Christopher Valites

    Go and look for Chris nice work of portraiture, you’ll like it. But I immediately stopped by the water series. Christopher Valites.

  • Lens range at Sony / Zeiss

    Since Sony took over the photo activities of Minolta, we observed a considerable evolution on the lens range. There were only lenses from the Minolta original range (mainly on the second-hand market), but Sony associated with Zeiss to build a full-spectrum offer covering more and more and providing a good answer to the needs from…

  • Canon EOS 1D Mark IV vs. Nikon D3s

    If you are looking for the best SLR camera that your money can buy, you have certainly seen the announcement of the latest pro cameras from Nikon and Canon as very interesting. Both the Canon EOS 1D Mark IV and the Nikon D3S pretend to be very fast cameras and to have actual record sensitivity…

  • A hard disk drive for your backups

    We were previously speaking here of backing up your photos, only a month ago. Here is a serious hard disk drive designed for this task:The ioSafe Solo fireproof and waterproof hard drive line with 2TB. Not really cheap at 400$ for 2 tera-bytes, and only a USB 2.0 connection, but it looks sturdy.

  • Richard Pak

    French artist who went through London in 1999-2003, Richard Pak, travelled a lot and sharpened an eye for forms and warm colours. Like in this street in the London City night. Richard’s web site.

  • A new kind of DSLR

    All Digital SLR cameras look a like because it’s a tried design solution. But what about other forms and patterns? Erin Fong is trying to offer something completely different with this Nova camera concept. Innovative, for sure. From designer Erin Fong.

  • A gift for Christmas?

    Thanks to Swarovski and Olympus, you can now offer a stupendous photo camera: An Olympus EP-1 studded with Swarovski crystals. If you have to ask for the price, you can’t afford it. But, it’s £1999.99 in the UK.

  • How a seal tried to feed Paul Nicklen

    YouTube link The leopard seal is really a big predator (check its size on the photos) and it’s perfectly adapted to its environment (much more than a man in a diving suit). But this one, not only let National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen shoot great pictures, but tried to help him by feeding him live…