Photography

There's an airport in St. Maarten (SXM) that's famous for how close it is to the beach. Josef Hoflehner's got some spectacular shots of the planes coming and going.

You can view the whole series on Hoflehner's site.

For those of you who think these may be faked, or collages, here's an extraordinary vid of one landing (posted 9 years ago, so pre-mainstream-AI):

On Youtube you can also find vids of tourists intentionally standing behind the planes in order to be propelled by their exhausts during takeoff.

A few photos taken by a Chicago cabby in the 70s, including several great portraits of his fellow drivers. From Square America, which has the rest of the series.

Foto is a relatively new app for iPhone and Android that works similar to how Instagram worked before it got plagued with ads, commercialism, and other things that complicated its simplicity. Some differences:

• Foto claims it will always be ad-free
• Foto does not crop your photos or force an aspect-ratio on you
• No video
• Not owned by a billionaire
• Publishes a Roadmap of upcoming features
• Has free and paid-tiers

The first four pictures are from DiDonato's Home series. The last two are from the Elsewhere series.

Everything visible at BookeDiDonato.com.

Ana Cuba takes great pictures.

More on Cuba's site.

Not exactly sure what it is about Michael Wolf's photos of Paris rooftops that I find intriguing, but there's something there that captivates.

More on Wolf's site.

For more than a decade, Gail Albert Halaban has been photographing people through their windows — with permission. She's got a series of photos from New York, Italy, Paris, Istanbul, and Buenos Aires.

And here's a BBC Provile of Halaban's project:

More on Halaban's site.

At a party the other night I met Tanja Tiziana, the photographer behind Not My Father's Slides, "a blog dedicated to vintage photographic slides — either found, rescued or donated." Fantastic project!

Some great shots in Lukasz Palka's series, Life, Japan.

Many more on the series page.

Winners have been announced for the annual Close Up Photography of the Year Awards. Some incredible stuff.

Winners in all categories can be seen on the CUPOTY site.

The best close up photo I've ever taken is probably this one: