http://www.photographyuncapped.com Ken Storch Photo Blog - All Things Photographic, All Thoughts Photographic Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:38:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.photographyuncapped.com/happy-new-yorks-day-holiday-photos/news/ http://www.photographyuncapped.com/happy-new-yorks-day-holiday-photos/news/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:48:45 +0000 Ken Storch http://www.photographyuncapped.com/?p=9253
A few exceptional hopefully-ironic holiday photos from PhotographyUNcapped - wishing you and yours a safe and happy holiday season.  ]]> http://www.photographyuncapped.com/happy-new-yorks-day-holiday-photos/news/feed/ 2 http://www.photographyuncapped.com/nikon-factory-in-thailand-flood-recovery-prospects-improving/equipment-gadgets/ http://www.photographyuncapped.com/nikon-factory-in-thailand-flood-recovery-prospects-improving/equipment-gadgets/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:16:43 +0000 Ken Storch http://www.photographyuncapped.com/?p=8829
Prospects for the reopening of DLSR manufacturing plants is improving for Nikon. The recent historic-level floods in Thailand have closed many international factories in several industrial parks north of Bangkok. PhotographyUNcapped has reported on this ongoing crisis affecting the photography industry, and certainly, the people, and places inundated in Thailand: Canon Nikon – DSLR Manufacturers [more...]]]> http://www.photographyuncapped.com/nikon-factory-in-thailand-flood-recovery-prospects-improving/equipment-gadgets/feed/ 0 http://www.photographyuncapped.com/canon-nikon-dslr-manufacturers-thailand-flood-updates/equipment-gadgets/ http://www.photographyuncapped.com/canon-nikon-dslr-manufacturers-thailand-flood-updates/equipment-gadgets/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:27:05 +0000 Ken Storch http://www.photographyuncapped.com/?p=8607
Reports of DSLR manufacturer's plant re-openings in flooded Thailand industrial parks are, well, as mixed and muddy as the are the flood waters. Predictions range from a few weeks, to a few months, before work can resume. Accurate information is always hard to confirm in a crisis. In Thailand, this problem is exacerbated by the [more...]]]> http://www.photographyuncapped.com/canon-nikon-dslr-manufacturers-thailand-flood-updates/equipment-gadgets/feed/ 5 http://www.photographyuncapped.com/volcanic-ash-cloud-lightning-in-chile/news/ http://www.photographyuncapped.com/volcanic-ash-cloud-lightning-in-chile/news/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:18:56 +0000 Ken Storch http://www.photographyuncapped.com/?p=8600
Stunning photo of lightning surrounding the ash cloud of an erupting volcano in Chile. This image has been circulating widely, but we feel it bears showing to our readers who may not have seen it yet. There is very scant info available about the image by Ricardo Mohr. Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano at National Geographic: Chile [more...]]]> http://www.photographyuncapped.com/volcanic-ash-cloud-lightning-in-chile/news/feed/ 1 http://www.photographyuncapped.com/snapshot-photos-taken-by-survivors-of-the-titanic-sinking/film-photography/ http://www.photographyuncapped.com/snapshot-photos-taken-by-survivors-of-the-titanic-sinking/film-photography/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:18:59 +0000 Ken Storch http://www.photographyuncapped.com/?p=8448
Rare photographs taken by survivors of the sinking of the Titanic are being auctioned. The images, along with handwritten letters, are by survivors John and Nelle Pillsbury Snyder. They are bring auctioned by Phillip Weiss Auctions. The Snyders were returning from their honeymoon, and were among the first to get into lifeboats in the early [more...]]]> http://www.photographyuncapped.com/snapshot-photos-taken-by-survivors-of-the-titanic-sinking/film-photography/feed/ 2 http://www.photographyuncapped.com/canon-nikon-sony-dslr-factories-closed-indefinitely-in-thailand-flooding-dslr-cameras-will-be-in-short-supply/equipment-gadgets/ http://www.photographyuncapped.com/canon-nikon-sony-dslr-factories-closed-indefinitely-in-thailand-flooding-dslr-cameras-will-be-in-short-supply/equipment-gadgets/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:24:20 +0000 Ken Storch http://www.photographyuncapped.com/?p=8429
Many of the most prominent DSLR manufacturers have had to halt production due to the tremendous flooding in Thailand. Reports of factory closings have been coming in for weeks, but the extent of the effects on DSLR availability is emerging slowly. Understandably, companies such as Nikon Canon, Sony don't want their publicity departments putting out [more...]]]> http://www.photographyuncapped.com/canon-nikon-sony-dslr-factories-closed-indefinitely-in-thailand-flooding-dslr-cameras-will-be-in-short-supply/equipment-gadgets/feed/ 1 http://www.photographyuncapped.com/totally-punk-photos-taken-by-other-people-project-your-own-images-and-text-into-photos-being-taken-by-strangers/equipment-gadgets/ http://www.photographyuncapped.com/totally-punk-photos-taken-by-other-people-project-your-own-images-and-text-into-photos-being-taken-by-strangers/equipment-gadgets/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:00:34 +0000 onthewind http://www.photographyuncapped.com/?p=8407
Julius von Bismark has created a device, dubbed 'the Image Fulgurator', with which he, and you, can project an image onto any scene being photographed by other people, when they are using flash. You can add text and/or images onto the scene which will be recorded by their cameras. This is so potentially punk! The [more...]]]> http://www.photographyuncapped.com/totally-punk-photos-taken-by-other-people-project-your-own-images-and-text-into-photos-being-taken-by-strangers/equipment-gadgets/feed/ 5 http://www.photographyuncapped.com/superb-photos-of-thailand-floods/news/ http://www.photographyuncapped.com/superb-photos-of-thailand-floods/news/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:09:21 +0000 Ken Storch http://www.photographyuncapped.com/?p=8325
The Atlantic has published a page of very fine photographs of the floods in Thailand. Thailand is experiencing major flooding, affecting Nikon and Canon factories, as well as thousands of Thai people. (See previous post about the Nikon DSLR + Lens factory closing: Nikon Halts DSLR and Lens Manufacture at Thailand Factory Ayutthaya, or Ayudhya, [more...]]]> http://www.photographyuncapped.com/superb-photos-of-thailand-floods/news/feed/ 3 http://www.photographyuncapped.com/nikon-halts-dslr-and-lens-manufacture-at-thailand-factory/news/ http://www.photographyuncapped.com/nikon-halts-dslr-and-lens-manufacture-at-thailand-factory/news/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:56:37 +0000 Ken Storch http://www.photographyuncapped.com/?p=8300
Nikon has halted their DSLR and Lens manufacturing facility in Thailand due to the record breaking catastrophic flooding in the country. The Nikon factory is one of many in the flooded ancient capital of Ayutthaya (pronounced somewhat like: ah YOU tee uh) and sometimes spelled as Ayudhya. Nikon, Canon, Ford, Toyota, Honda, and many other [more...]]]> http://www.photographyuncapped.com/nikon-halts-dslr-and-lens-manufacture-at-thailand-factory/news/feed/ 5