Taken in NYC subway with a Nikon D70, 800 ISO, f-2.8, 1/60 s.

I'm very pleased that you're submitted some pictures lately. I must say that your submissions are somewhat impressive and show some great skills. Thanks for sharing them with us and the world (our international status allow me to write those kind of sentences ... please notice that I use a "w" and not a "W" ...)!

Christmas times comes, and Santa Pedro de la Claus just bring you some pretty neat stuff to enjoy the cold winter nights (I'm sure mine are colder than yours).

The first website of choice you have to discover is the Digitized Collections Section of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library of Duke University. There, you can find thousands of photographs on very different subjects like African American Women or Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920.  Among those subjects you definitly must have a look on William Gedney: photographs and writings collection. This collection allow you to have an intimate glance into the life and motley work of this american photographer. From the homepage:

 

From the mid 1950s through the early 1980s, William Gedney (1932-1989) photographed throughout the United States, in India, and in Europe. From the commerce of the street outside his Brooklyn apartment to the daily chores of unemployed coal miners, from the indolent lifestyle of hippies in Haight-Ashbury to the sacred rituals of Hindu worshippers, Gedney was able to record the lives of others with remarkable clarity and poignancy. These photographs, along with his notebooks and writings, illuminate the rare vision of an intensely private man who, as a writer and photographer, was able to reveal the lives of others with striking sensitivity. Included here are selections from Gedney's finished prints, work prints, contact sheets, notes, notebooks, handmade photographic books, book dummies, and correspondence.

After digging the underground world of photographer, let's discover some iconic pictures with the Pulitzer Prize section of the Interactive Museum of News (you can also wander in this site to discover tons of amazing stuff). Commented pictures by the photographers are the core of this website. Want some more? Head to the 100 photographs that changed the World by Life Magazine. This allow me to talk about The Digital Journalist, one of the best on-line magazine on photography. Subscribe to their RSS feed to stay tuned on the last trend in digital photography world!

Merry Christmas!

Title quotes Horace Walpole

I took this picture in Central Park, two years ago. This bird was quite funny because he was acting like he was surpervising the fisherman. I did not stay enough to know if the fishing was good!