Photography

Canadian photographer Maureen O'Connor's work is always one of the highlights for me of the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair. If I don't find her booth on my own meanderings, I make a point of seeking it out. I can't leave until I've seen her new photos.

All of the animals in her pictures are live — there's no taxidermy and no posing. The creatures, which to my understanding live in rehabilitation sanctuaries, are brought to the abandoned buildings and allowed to explore.

You can see all O'Connor's work at maureenfaithoconnor.com. The above are all from the Threshold series, but the Inclusion, Departures, and Cuban series are also excellent.

Winners of the 2024 Big Picture Nature Photography Contest have been chosen.

My favorite is one of the runners-up, but I'm biased as I recognize the heron, Glinlid, whom I met in the Dominican in 2019:

Check out all the 2024 winners on the Big Picture site.

Winners from years going back to 2014 are also viewable.

Some nice street photography and portraiture by Brit, Charlie Kwai.

Huck Mag did a piece on Kwai.

More in the Projects section of Charlie Kwai's site.

Charlie Kwai

Charlie Kwai is a British photographer known for his direct approach to street photography across the UK and around the Globe.

Charlie Kwai

I quite enjoyed these last year. Here's some of the highlights for 2024:

You can view all of the nominees here.

Some of last year's winners were extraordinarily good:

Site is here:

Siena Awards

Siena Awards

Nice to see the Cabin Porn blog is still active.

And here's one of my own cabin photos, from Paradise Cove, Vanuatu:

Hundreds more cabins on Cabin Porn's blog.

"iN-PUBLiC was set up in 2000 to provide a home for Street Photographers. Our aim is to promote Street Photography and to continue to explore its possibilities. We are a non commercial collective. All the photographers featured here have been invited to the group because they have the ability to see the unusual in the everyday and to capture the moment."

Some truly fantastic stuff here.

Thomas Shahan takes awesome photos of insects:

Plenty more on his official website.

Got taken to Donna's for a birthday dinner and these photos and more were what was up on the wall. Visit that fantastic restaurant to check them out, or if you're too late, they're on photographer Finn O'Hara's website:

Finn O’Hara - Photographer / Director | PERSONAL | 0

Selected work of Photographer / Director Finn O’Hara. Based in North America. Represented by RSA Films.

Finn O'Hara - Photographer / Director

When I travel, I try to focus on something ubiquitous and mundane that recalls the location. In Autumn, 2017, I spent three months wandering the orange groves of Oliva, Spain, and was particularly taken with the tool sheds and utility boxes. I decided to document them. Here, I've gathered my favorites.

"Polanoid was invented because the magic of Polaroid pictures, the thrilling Edwin Land story and because the charm and touch of Polaroid cameras hit us like a sledge hammer." So says the founders of the Polaroid archiving website that is not only still running, but has new posts as of just a few days ago.

"Hungry for real analog, good smelling pictures in a digital world, we decided to swim against the stream and to reset our focus and start the biggest, best and most instant online photo community ever. Stuffed with millions of Polaroids, collected and uploaded by Polaroid addicts all over the planet."

All of the above pieces are by member, alodia, but Polonoid has many members.