Ani Moller » Photography http://www.animoller.com Consequences Will Never Be The Same! Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:23:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Discovering Vivian Maier http://www.animoller.com/2009/10/27/vivian-maier-her-discovered-work/ http://www.animoller.com/2009/10/27/vivian-maier-her-discovered-work/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:53:00 +0000 animoller http://www.animoller.com/?p=2041 John Maloof bought 30-40,000 negatives from an antique store, of an unknown street-photographer called Vivian Maier from ’60s and ’70s.  She died two days before he tried to find her, so all he has to unravel the mystery of Vivian Maier is her extensive collection of photos.

After some researching, I have only little information about Vivian. I cannot find any relatives or heirs after a diligent search.

Central Camera (110 yr old camera shop in Chicago) has encountered Vivian from time to time when she would purchase film while out on the Chicago streets. From what they knew of her, they say she was a very “keep your distance from me” type of person but was also outspoken. She loved foreign films and didn’t care much for American films.

Such an interesting story, and some great photos.

Self portriat

Men must change or die

Check out the website here.

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I took the first photo three years ago but touched it up just this weekend with a non-broken Photoshop.  I was driving from Wellington to Auckland and I saw the swans so stopped to take a photo.  How could I not – I had never seen black swans before!  They flew over to inspect me and swam about in front of me for a few minutes and let me take some photos.

Seeing how I love swans, here is another photo I took of a swan ducking for food on the Leicester River, when I visited Leicester for the day back in 2005.  Not seen: all the disgusting rubbish I photoshopped out because it was yuck!

]]> http://www.animoller.com/2009/08/11/i-love-swans/feed/ 0 Same Hill, Different Day http://www.animoller.com/2009/08/01/same-hill-different-day/ http://www.animoller.com/2009/08/01/same-hill-different-day/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:59:10 +0000 animoller http://www.animoller.com/?p=1969 Reminiscent of illustrations from a childrens book, check out this beautiful set of photos by Paul Octavious.  See the full set here.

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This amazing photoset on Flickr from the Library of Congress showcases photos from the 1930s and 1940s in colour, which you don’t see very often.  The photo above is a female aircraft worker at the Vega Aircraft Corporation in California checking electrical assemblies.  Beautiful!

1930s-40s in Color – a set on Flickr.

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I love how this photo turned out.

Birds flying in the rain

Birds flying in the rain on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.

]]> http://www.animoller.com/2009/06/30/birds-flying-in-the-rain/feed/ 0 Flickr Gallery: A Sweet Plug-In http://www.animoller.com/2009/06/28/flickr-gallery-a-sweet-plug-in/ http://www.animoller.com/2009/06/28/flickr-gallery-a-sweet-plug-in/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:32:51 +0000 animoller http://www.animoller.com/?p=1905 I have always wanted a gallery on my site, but until only recently I have used a CMS that wasn’t WordPress. I have to say, WordPress is bloody excellent With those widgets and plug-ins, it takes away everything I hated about the internet before. Sure, I could do it, but it was hard. Having to write code that I didn’t want to, and try to design shit; it would just make me angry. I have bad artistic temperament.

So, tonight I thought, “Hey! I’ll see if I can do that easily with a plug-in eh?” I found Flickr Gallery, which is so easy!

  1. Download
  2. Install to wp-content (I always forget and have to hunt for that)
  3. Activate plug-in in dashboard
  4. Enter settings, once you get a Flickr API key
  5. Create new page, with just nothing but the text “flickr-gallery” in square brackets
  6. Save!
  7. Look!

Man the internet is just so easy these days!

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I was talking about storms with my workmate and I told him about this crazy cloud I took a photo of when I was living in Antwerp.

Storm over Antwerp on Flickr – Photo Sharing.

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I came across this photo I took a couple of years ago. I like it. More photos I say.

]]> http://www.animoller.com/2009/05/21/1882/feed/ 0 I have taken a lot of photos http://www.animoller.com/2009/03/19/i-have-taken-a-lot-of-photos/ http://www.animoller.com/2009/03/19/i-have-taken-a-lot-of-photos/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:35:27 +0000 animoller http://www.animoller.com/?p=1822 As noted this evening while doing a back up of my photos directory. Nine years, 4 digital cameras, 47GB. Perhaps one day I will share more of them.

That's a lot of photos

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