If you enjoy upbeat popular French music, check out Les Frangines.
And they have a new album just out:
The new album is available on Apple Music and Spotify. I enjoyed the new album very much.
Author: David Enzel
Lightroom Classic Crashing on Launch
Lightroom Classic often crashes on launch. If I relaunch it is ok. I found this Adobe support article and did both steps. The second step helped for about an hour but the crashing has started again. I hope Adobe fixes this soon. If anyone has a solution, I would love to know.
Superb Photo Essays About the War in Ukraine
The Washington Post has published three excellent photo essays about the war in Ukraine. The series of essays is entitled “Agony, Endurance and
Escape: Ukraine in Pictures.”
The three photographers are Guillaume Herbaut, Salwan Georges and Peter Turnley.
Georges was interviewed on the December 3, 2020 episode of the excellent B&H Photography Podcast. Among other things, Georges discusses why he uses Sony equipment.
Thomas Jefferson Memorial
A powerful monument recently restored
I have lived in Washington, DC for more than forty years. Washington is a beautiful city with many grand monuments. My favorite is the Jefferson Memorial.
The exterior of the Memorial is simple and elegant. The exterior of the Memorial is a circular, open-air structure featuring a shallow dome supported by a circular colonnade composed of 26 Ionic columns.
The interior is powerful. Thomas Jefferson stands 19 feet tall. He’s holding the Declaration of Independence and peering out to the Tidal Basin. The bronze statue of Jefferson weighs 10,000 pounds (4,500 kg).
A rehabilitation project to replace the Thomas Jefferson Memorial’s three roof systems and clean all of the exterior marble was completed in in 2021. And the statue sculpted by Rudulph Evans has been cleaned. Evans was born in Washington, DC and studied in France. His fellow students in France included Auguste Rodin and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The Memorial was built between 1939 and 1943 .
Why Photograph?
“Roaming forgotten places in the darkness to capture the hope of the light allowed me to confront the panic around me and gave me the strength to carry on.”
I became fascinated by Chicago’s nighttime alleys and back streets during the pandemic. I submerged myself in studies of how artificial lights penetrate the darkness of an urban environment. That darkness provided me comfort and cover from the events going on around me. The artificial lights transformed what is bland and ugly in the daylight into a beautiful hidden world, which is visible to those willing to risk the unknown, the shadows.
During the pandemic, fear and death seemed to permeate everything. Roaming forgotten places in the darkness to capture the hope of the light allowed me to confront the panic around me and gave me the strength to carry on. Ultimately, my work is about confronting fear and finding the beauty, which can emerge from the unknown, the darkness.
Jim Hill
You can follow Jim Hill’s thought provoking photographs on Flickr and Instagram.
You can read other reasons people make photographs here.
Easter at the Lincoln Memorial
Thousands welcomed Easter Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial this morning. A sunrise service has been a Washington tradition annually since 1979 but was not held for the past two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The first service in 1979 had only about 130 attendees.
David Enzel 