When it comes to creative home decor, craft supplies can make great design elements. A perfect example: this DIY embroidery hoop photo display. Looking for a creative way to display your favorite snapshots? Transform old wooden embroidery hoops into an eye-catching piece of multi-tiered art with this cool and crafty embroidery hoop photo display tutorial […]
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Take a walk down memory lane and turn copies of old family photos into fun gift tags!
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We’re in the final stretch of public voting for the Make: The Shot Camera Challenge, which ends today Tuesday May 20 at 11:59pm PT.
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Investing the time it takes to cross-stitch an entire photograph is an amazing way to show how much you care about that image and the people in it, like Tumblr user mcmolls’ aunt did with this thoughtful cross-stitched picture of her grandparents’ wedding photo.
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My post last week about shadowgraphy and Schlieren photography generated a lot of enthusiastic responses and not a few requests for a more detailed tutorial. Among the comments was one by Ian Smith, who has a great page here describing his own Schlieren photography set-up. (While you’re there, take a moment to appreciate the fact […]
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False-color shadowgram of gunshot from a .357 magnum by Gary Settles at Penn State university. The New York Times has an awesome slideshow of shadowgrams and Schlieren photographs, created by engineering professor Gary Settles, which accompany a 2008 article about his work at Penn State’s Gas Dynamics Lab. The method, which can produce fantastic visualizations […]
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An old friend of mine, photographer Billy Baque, once told me of a rumor about gardeners in the early 20th century reusing unwanted glass plate negatives to build greenhouses. This idea–a sunlit glass room full of growing plants, dappled with the accidental shadows of unwanted memories–is to me almost too beautiful to explain. So I […]
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