below please find a delightful serendipitous moment during a photo session with musician matthew perryman jones
behold, bob miller and branden lower working their magic as caleb looks on.
pobabtapompj!
Monday, December 1, 2008
guest poptpop! caleb chancey!
this new poptpop gem comes courtesy of caleb chancey
below please find a delightful serendipitous moment during a photo session with musician matthew perryman jones
behold, bob miller and branden lower working their magic as caleb looks on.
pobabtapompj!
below please find a delightful serendipitous moment during a photo session with musician matthew perryman jones
behold, bob miller and branden lower working their magic as caleb looks on.
pobabtapompj!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
the eye of sauron belgrade
So.....
one of my goals with PoptpoP (yes, there are goals, apparently (said like dr zoidberg)) is to fully delve into the whole idea of a poptpop. its not just photographs of people taking photographs that so fascinates me. its the whole process. the awkward looking at the back of the camera (thank YOU technology), the scooting people around in the frame, the SUPER intense postures people take to frame the shot just right, its the chimping the photo after, the re-shoots, and in THIS case, the "oh shit, Alexandra, I totally fucking nailed that posed next to fucking Saurons eye. Do you still have that palantÃr in your purse?" look of satisfaction right AFTER a POPTPOP.
poplsahtpt
(pictures of people looking satisfied after having their picture taken)
this is in belgrade, serbia (written "beograd" at the bottom of sauron's ...er..iris)
one of my goals with PoptpoP (yes, there are goals, apparently (said like dr zoidberg)) is to fully delve into the whole idea of a poptpop. its not just photographs of people taking photographs that so fascinates me. its the whole process. the awkward looking at the back of the camera (thank YOU technology), the scooting people around in the frame, the SUPER intense postures people take to frame the shot just right, its the chimping the photo after, the re-shoots, and in THIS case, the "oh shit, Alexandra, I totally fucking nailed that posed next to fucking Saurons eye. Do you still have that palantÃr in your purse?" look of satisfaction right AFTER a POPTPOP.
poplsahtpt
(pictures of people looking satisfied after having their picture taken)
this is in belgrade, serbia (written "beograd" at the bottom of sauron's ...er..iris)
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Bhate
I've never understood just what the hell Bhate is. anyone know? I got nothin'.
featured here is YET ANOTHER GLORIOUS GUEST POPTPOP.
Sir Brandon Ballard, ESQ again sends in magic.
below you'll see a picture of kevin "k-bone" "chostagev" wilder photographing j-rod allen photographing a weird bhate building.
pokkcwpjapawbb
note that this is a cropped version of this image to attempt to stick to the "width" of this blog without making a single image ungodlyily hugegantic.
if you want to see the larger version, navigate to this URL
©Brandon Ballard
featured here is YET ANOTHER GLORIOUS GUEST POPTPOP.
Sir Brandon Ballard, ESQ again sends in magic.
below you'll see a picture of kevin "k-bone" "chostagev" wilder photographing j-rod allen photographing a weird bhate building.
pokkcwpjapawbb
note that this is a cropped version of this image to attempt to stick to the "width" of this blog without making a single image ungodlyily hugegantic.
if you want to see the larger version, navigate to this URL
©Brandon Ballard
who doesn't love a botanical garden? its a great place for a photo
who doesn't love a botanical garden? its a great place for a photo. its practically a fact. you can take blurry photos of flowers. you can take pictures of different....things that are...growing. you can take bad portraits of friends costumed as faeries, kids in matching outfits, or i guess kids it matching flowers.
this is a place in monroe, la that has nickel cokes which is why we went there. NICKEL FRIGGEN COKES. in 2008. its the former home, i think, of the local area old school bottling plant duder who was the coke guy way back in the day. now this place is a museum of boring but b'god they have some cheap ass coke. in a bottle. delish.
this is a place in monroe, la that has nickel cokes which is why we went there. NICKEL FRIGGEN COKES. in 2008. its the former home, i think, of the local area old school bottling plant duder who was the coke guy way back in the day. now this place is a museum of boring but b'god they have some cheap ass coke. in a bottle. delish.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
an odd poptpop
So we've been on such a roll lately with submissions and interactions and what have yous I thought I'd throw in an odd ball.
this is me taking a picture of me (or Cary; portrait of a grey beard hair) but its Also john shooting Boris and Trevor (Boris is hidden behind my melon).
this was at the end of our euro trip in vienna, were we were having a relaxing time at the park watching people.
picture of me taking a picture of me taking a picture of john taking a picture of trevor and boris
pomtapomtapojtapotab
this is me taking a picture of me (or Cary; portrait of a grey beard hair) but its Also john shooting Boris and Trevor (Boris is hidden behind my melon).
this was at the end of our euro trip in vienna, were we were having a relaxing time at the park watching people.
picture of me taking a picture of me taking a picture of john taking a picture of trevor and boris
pomtapomtapojtapotab
Saturday, November 15, 2008
WE HAVE A WINNER (and a runner upper!)
Okay so competition was fierce. There were blog guesses and facebook guesses.
THE RESULTS ARE IN:
the winner is the lovely TAMMY HARPER! I hereby award this part-inkling person the arbitrarily numbered bonus points!
her answer:
ah! i finally found it.
there is totally a dude squatting down in front of the stairs taking a picture of the dude with his hands in the air.
Now! That said, the multi-talented ANNA CARRIGAN answered here on poptpop TWO minutes faster than Tammy, howEVER she seemed to throw in the towel. She got the man on the stairs with his hands up but didn't find the photographer and reinforced this by ending with "i have no idea". SO CLOSE!
As a consolation prize, and because she was wonderful enough to SEND IN HER OWN POPTPOP (thank you), she gets today's post!
Background story from Anna:
in Edinburgh, Calton Hill, Lindsay Blount taking a picture of Alison in front of the National Monument aka the Parthenon aka Edinburgh's Folly because it never got finished.
The Photo:
©Lindsay Blount [or Anna Carrigan]
other notes:
since those were basically two winners, the "official" runner up is Meg "is that meg posing by the pool on portico?" Rymer McClung!
and i think we all agree the women are American. They are dirty, rotten, and from Florida or from the Midwest. It is clear they say things like "warsh" as well. You can tell by the pants.
More poptpop to come!
I think I smell another Mr Brandon on the way.
SEND ME YOUR DAMN POPTPOPs!
ps, my favorite part of anna's poptpop is the couple of people perched on monoment.
THE RESULTS ARE IN:
the winner is the lovely TAMMY HARPER! I hereby award this part-inkling person the arbitrarily numbered bonus points!
her answer:
ah! i finally found it.
there is totally a dude squatting down in front of the stairs taking a picture of the dude with his hands in the air.
Now! That said, the multi-talented ANNA CARRIGAN answered here on poptpop TWO minutes faster than Tammy, howEVER she seemed to throw in the towel. She got the man on the stairs with his hands up but didn't find the photographer and reinforced this by ending with "i have no idea". SO CLOSE!
As a consolation prize, and because she was wonderful enough to SEND IN HER OWN POPTPOP (thank you), she gets today's post!
Background story from Anna:
in Edinburgh, Calton Hill, Lindsay Blount taking a picture of Alison in front of the National Monument aka the Parthenon aka Edinburgh's Folly because it never got finished.
The Photo:
©Lindsay Blount [or Anna Carrigan]
other notes:
since those were basically two winners, the "official" runner up is Meg "is that meg posing by the pool on portico?" Rymer McClung!
and i think we all agree the women are American. They are dirty, rotten, and from Florida or from the Midwest. It is clear they say things like "warsh" as well. You can tell by the pants.
More poptpop to come!
I think I smell another Mr Brandon on the way.
SEND ME YOUR DAMN POPTPOPs!
ps, my favorite part of anna's poptpop is the couple of people perched on monoment.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
viewer contributed poptpop! brandon ballard!
So here is another contributor photo that is LOVELY (and how!). Thanks to reader Brandon Ballard for sending this one in! (I took some liberties with the post..I hope thats okay)
what a great Picture of a person taking a picture of a group of people at the st louis arch (poaptapoagopatsla)
thanks mister brandon!
©Brandon Ballard
SEND IN YOURS!
poptpop@gmail.com
(soon there will be a more elegant way to submit, but for now, email me them!)
what a great Picture of a person taking a picture of a group of people at the st louis arch (poaptapoagopatsla)
thanks mister brandon!
©Brandon Ballard
SEND IN YOURS!
poptpop@gmail.com
(soon there will be a more elegant way to submit, but for now, email me them!)
more dubrovnik croatia
Hey!
So here is another one from a recent trip to Croatia. This gem is technically a double poptpop. 19.7 bonus points to the first person to point it out!
extra bonus points for attempting to guess where these ladies are from. guess guess guess. i dont know, i just want to read your funny guesses.
ALSO! I just now realized that I didn't have blogger sending me emails when people comment so I have not as yet replied to you all! I WILL! KEEP COMMENTING! YOUR COMMENTS FEED STARVING CHILDREN (im told)! YOUR POPTPOP™ COMMENTS CAN SAVE THE WORLD (apparently)!
So here are the ladies at some place in the old fortress in Dubrovnik.
Holla, Ladies!
So here is another one from a recent trip to Croatia. This gem is technically a double poptpop. 19.7 bonus points to the first person to point it out!
extra bonus points for attempting to guess where these ladies are from. guess guess guess. i dont know, i just want to read your funny guesses.
ALSO! I just now realized that I didn't have blogger sending me emails when people comment so I have not as yet replied to you all! I WILL! KEEP COMMENTING! YOUR COMMENTS FEED STARVING CHILDREN (im told)! YOUR POPTPOP™ COMMENTS CAN SAVE THE WORLD (apparently)!
So here are the ladies at some place in the old fortress in Dubrovnik.
Holla, Ladies!
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
dubrovnik wall
the city center wall in Dubrovnik is a bit attraction (costs like 10 bucks just to walk around. whatever to that). these people (blurry) were waving.
Friday, November 7, 2008
The Original!
SO I PRESENT TO YOU!
The original shot from many years ago taken by my good friend John Yam (seen many times on electric lion, and maybe once so far on here..more to come..don't fret).
This shot, to me, is just so epic. The man taking the shot's posture is one of the best things I've ever seen.
John was in Washington DC across from the National Gallery (I think) and saw this nonsense.
©John Yam
This image stuck with me for years and it was only this year that I realized that I have been taking shots of the same kind of subject ever since then (and decided to make a blog about it).
Who out there has a POPTPOP to share? Have a Double? A triple? THE ILLUSIVE QUADRUPLE?
Send it my way!
Send in your PopTpoP's with a little background info and it may well end up here!
GET INVOLVED! SEND THEM IN!
The original shot from many years ago taken by my good friend John Yam (seen many times on electric lion, and maybe once so far on here..more to come..don't fret).
This shot, to me, is just so epic. The man taking the shot's posture is one of the best things I've ever seen.
John was in Washington DC across from the National Gallery (I think) and saw this nonsense.
©John Yam
This image stuck with me for years and it was only this year that I realized that I have been taking shots of the same kind of subject ever since then (and decided to make a blog about it).
Who out there has a POPTPOP to share? Have a Double? A triple? THE ILLUSIVE QUADRUPLE?
Send it my way!
Send in your PopTpoP's with a little background info and it may well end up here!
GET INVOLVED! SEND THEM IN!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
first night of the 3 day walk
my sister is doing the whole 3 day walk (Susan Komen) here in atlanta and i'm here to shoot the whole thing. here's a poptpop from the night. a double even.
Monday, October 13, 2008
is that good? er...take one more..im blinking.
one of my favorite parts of the whole idea of a POPTPOP is the before and after. this is an "after" shot that details a bit of glory / lameness of digital cameras. there wouldn't be an "after" without digital (except polaroid of course, but its been out of the vogue a la mode for a good while) but i feel like there are more classically awful random photos of people standing next to stuff.
anyway...this the aftermath of a picture taken of someone.
anyway...this the aftermath of a picture taken of someone.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
poptpomtpoh
picture of person taking picture of me taking picture of him
[i consulted the board and it passed unanimously that this counts as a poptpop as its a picture of him taking a picture of someone [me], though its a bit less like the other photos.]
i will balance this one with the photo he actually took of me.
vs
pomtpoptpom
picture of me taking picture of person taking picture of me
[i consulted the board and it passed unanimously that this counts as a poptpop as its a picture of him taking a picture of someone [me], though its a bit less like the other photos.]
i will balance this one with the photo he actually took of me.
vs
pomtpoptpom
picture of me taking picture of person taking picture of me
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
guest post: from world war II
so, i guess i have decided that others' work is okay, but i also think i've decided it'd need to be solicited. that is...they need to offer it...i don't want to have to grab it.
so..i bring you the following from an email from caleb
I offer this to you has the first ever guest spot on poptpop:
J Wades Grandpa taking a picture in WWII of another soldier taking a picture of a soldier:
jwgtapiwwiioastapoas
(not quite the same ring, but i'll go with it)
so..i bring you the following from an email from caleb
I offer this to you has the first ever guest spot on poptpop:
J Wades Grandpa taking a picture in WWII of another soldier taking a picture of a soldier:
jwgtapiwwiioastapoas
(not quite the same ring, but i'll go with it)
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
taj photo guy
this one is pushing it a bit as no photo is being taken, but its a local taj dude setting people up for photos. sort of like the cameras they have on roller coasters.
Friday, August 29, 2008
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