Category Archives: Photography

Would you like to buy a bridge

Posted on December 13, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

I’ve recently been watching a period drama series set in New York City during the early 1880s. A number of episodes feature story lines about the building of the world famous Brooklyn Bridge which officially opened on May 24, 1883. … Continue reading →

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Atop NYC

Posted on December 6, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

New York City’s famous Rockefeller Center is taking tourism to new heights. They’ve just launched a new, immersive experience called “The Beam” which offers  visitors the chance to recreate the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture that was taken in … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Iceland

Posted on November 27, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

This holiday weekend I binged watched a mystery series set in Iceland. Of course this led to a bout of nostalgia for one of my favorite places on Earth and a search for videos set in Iceland. The fabulous film … Continue reading →

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10 years, 3.5 million photos, in 4 minutes

Posted on November 18, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

Photographer Jack Fisher is a globe-trotting photographer who created the amazing time-lapse video below which covers ten years of work in just four minues. Fisher says, “I called it Sequences because I try to create stories, or scenes in my timelapse photography, … Continue reading →

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Mainly Miscellany

Posted on September 25, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

You should check out Postcard Past: A site collecting contemporary photo recreations of scenes from old postcards, which neatly contrast the stylized presentation of the often-future-seeming architecture depicted in postcards of the past with the reality of today. To quote … Continue reading →

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Florida ! Love it or hate it

Posted on September 19, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

Florida is one of those places that you never really know unless you’ve lived there. Having spent the better part of my twenties in the Sunshine State, and having resided in both South and North Florida, I feel that my … Continue reading →

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Time Travel

Posted on August 7, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

In 1842, a French artist and scholar named Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey set out on a tour of the eastern Mediterranean to document sights and architecture via the brand new medium of photography. He started off in what is now … Continue reading →

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Discarded Books

Posted on July 8, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

André Kertész, Discarded Books, New York City, 1974  

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There are no kangaroos in Austria

Posted on May 14, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

Award-winning photographer Kirill Neiezhmakov has created a brilliant hyperlapse tour of Vienna, Austria that plays on the popular longstanding joke that there are no kangaroos in Austria. The very entertaining timelapse video of Vienna explores many of the historic  city’s … Continue reading →

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Epic Iceland

Posted on April 21, 2023 by Brian D. Butler

One of my longest running travel obsessions has been the extraordinary island nation of Iceland. I’ve been lucky enough to have been visiting there for more than 40 years. In some ways Iceland has experienced amazing changes during the last … Continue reading →

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