Photography

After the success of October’s taco truck tour, it’s time for another! Taco Truck Tour Numéro Dos: When: Sunday, November 22, 2009 Meet: 12:30 pm, Lake Merritt BART station (9th and Oak St., Oakland). Start: ~ 12:45 pm End: ~ 3:30 pm ish, Fruitvale BART station Twitter: @catacotrucks / #tacotrucktour Itinerary (follow along at Oakland Taco Truck Map 2007) 1) Tacos Alonzo at Foothill Blvd./27th Ave. 2) Tacos El Mazatlan at Foothill Blvd./Fruitvale Ave. 3) Tamales Mi Lupita at Foothill…

Since Iran has been going nuts since the election, I’ve found myself glued to Twitter much more than before. I’ve used it to send out articles that I’ve found interesting, and get a handle on what people are talking about. More recently, I’ve used it to experiment with sending out photos of what I see when I’m out in the world. I have my Flickr email address and my Twitpic address both in my iPhone, so that with a single…

Our first round of photos from our Germany trip are up.

The New York Times Magazine has a great online feature called Obama’s People, showing pictures of some of the members of the new administration and his allies in Congress. There’s a slideshow and some narration by Narav Kander (photographer), and Kathy Ryan, the Times Magazine’s director of photography. Basically, the idea was to get them photographed in a small, confined space and to let their gestures to the talking. Also, they asked each person to bring (if they wanted?) a…

Here’s my first batch. I’ve got nearly 1,000 in all. Here’s a few of my favs from the first round:

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece about the addition of some Library of Congress photos to Flickr will air on Morning Edition today! It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams). New York – 5 am to 9 am Eastern – WNYC – 820 AM – www.wnyc.org Washington, DC – 5 am to 10 am Eastern – WAMU – 88.5 FM – www.wamu.org Los Angeles – 2 am to 9 am Pacific…

This time from Chrome Bags: