photography

Finding Beauty In A Baseball, After The Last Pitch

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:30:42 +0000

As a new season of Major League Baseball begins, one photographer focuses on baseballs past — that is, baseballs that have lain dormant well after their last pitch.

For years, photographer Don Hamerman walked his dog near an old baseball diamond in Stamford, Conn.

The Meeting Of Mighty Rivers Near St. Louis As Seen From Space

Kelsey Proud — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:22:29 +0000

Here's a view you don't get every day:

It was tweeted in January by the commander of the International Space Station, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. He's been making it his job to not only lead Expedition 35 of the ISS but also amass a dazzling collection of images of the Earth from space.

Whiteout: How This Week's Snowfall Looked From Space

Kelsey Proud — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:29:21 +0000

The images of this past week's heavy snowfall in Missouri and across the Midwest are familiar and chaotic - cars in ditches, closed airports and overall gridlock of infrastructure.

Today's NASA "Image of the Day" provides a decidedly more peaceful look at the storm's effects, from space.

Here's how NASA describes this image and the technology they used to capture it:

National Geographic Photo Contest Winners

Claire O'Neill — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:39:38 +0000

National Geographic last week announced the winners in its annual photo contest. According to the contest website, they received more than 22,000 entries from amateur and professional photographers around the world.

Here's a selection of the winning images, including editors' picks, viewers' choice and honorable mentions. You can see the rest on their website.

Are You Done With That? St. Louis Photographer Captures The Results Of Your Good Will

Jordan G. Teicher — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:26:02 +0000

Consider the stuff of our everyday lives — the clothes, the sheets, the toys and games. It's essential for a time, but inevitably, eventually, it all gets trashed — or donated.

And that donation process can seem a bit like magic. We drop off our used stuff, and the items disappear — or so we think.

But what truly becomes of it? Where does it go? And what does it look like?

Freelance photographer Wesley Law wanted to know. So when a friend told him about St.