Nikon iPhone app....

For those out there interested in learning more and applying it to your photography, now there's an app by Nikon for your iPhone or iPod touch. The Learn and Explore app provides example photography as well as helpful tips at home or on the go. Additionally, you can read the latest Nikon World issues right from your phone.

New York's Golden Age....

I'm a sucker for historic Black and White photos of cities and stumbled on this gallery at Life that I thought some might enjoy. There are some fantastic images of signature architecture as well as life in the city.

ROUNDUS - VR Panoramic site...

An individual on our monthly update list for sitephocus.com recently sent me another VR panoramic site similar to the Arounder.com site posted a couple of weeks back. The site, ROUNDUS, based in Lincoln, Nebraska also provides interactive panoramics of places and spaces around the world. From their site...

ROUNDUS is a group of people dedicated to documenting the world through virtual reality photography. We help people connect with places and things through interactive and immersive environments.

The growing list of panos contain a mix of public space and buildings, from Omaha to the Birds Nest in Beijing. Should be interesting to see future additions to the site.

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Chris

September 2008 Update: Portland

Our September's update is available. The photo update includes our final installment of Portland, Oregon. Sites include The South Waterfront District (Atwater Place, The John Ross, The Meriwether), Tom McCall Waterfront Park, 21st Avenue and Tibbetts Green Street, The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic area and many more. We now have over 19,000 images. You can see more sample Portland photos on our Flickr gallery.

Barcelona + Vancouver Exhibition

The Nashville Civic Design Center is holding an exhibition of selected photos of Barcelona and Vancouver from sitephocus' image library. The show began December 1st and will continue until the end of January. The Design Center is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 am– 5:00pm. The exhibit includes fifteen photographs of each city. They were chosen for their distinctly different approaches to urban design. The selected photos capture Vancouver's use of tall slender residential towers on residential podiums often referred to as "The Vancouver Model" and Barcelona's defining l'Eixample repeating grid of mixed use mid-rise blocks. I have put together a companion photo book with over 50 photographs. I will be receiving a proof copy of it in the next week. If everything goes right, it should be available around the first of the year.