Tag: "photography"

Photographing the Sun: Let Me Count The Ways

Photographing the Sun: Let Me Count The Ways

Turns out there are as many as ways to photograph as eclipse as there are to watch it. With a bit of preparation and the generosity of strangers, I got to experience five of them during Sunday's annular eclipse.

 
Gigapans: Panoramas that Bring You All the Way There

Gigapans: Panoramas that Bring You All the Way There

These gigantic, zoomable photographs bring all the glory of great places to your screen. They also bring you geologic lessons of all sizes.

 
Cast Your Votes For Our Photo Caption Contest with The Tech Museum!

Cast Your Votes For Our Photo Caption Contest with The Tech Museum!

Please vote on your favorite caption for our photo contest with The Tech Museum!

 
Enter Our Photo Caption Contest with The Tech Museum!

Enter Our Photo Caption Contest with The Tech Museum!

Enter our photo caption contest and you may win (2) tickets to the Tech Museum's upcoming After Hours event!

 
Producer's Notes: Finding Light

Producer's Notes: Finding Light

When I was trolling for our first YPOQ photographer for the new season of QUEST TV, I went back to some of those early submissions and was immediately struck by Christenson’s set of vibrant, kinetic images.

 
Vote On Our Photo Caption Contest with The Monterey Bay Aquarium!

Vote On Our Photo Caption Contest with The Monterey Bay Aquarium!

Vote on your favorite caption for our Monterey Bay Aquarium photo caption contest!

 
Enter Our Photo Caption Contest with The Monterey Bay Aquarium!

Enter Our Photo Caption Contest with The Monterey Bay Aquarium!

Enter our photo caption contest and you may win (2) tickets to the Monterey Bay Aquarium!

 
Hacking the Kinect For Art's Sake

Hacking the Kinect For Art's Sake

The Kinect by Microsoft has provided hackers with a new toy to experiment with. One Bay Area photographer shows us the Kinect in a new light.

 
Producer's Notes: Your Photos on QUEST – Ron Wolf

Producer's Notes: Your Photos on QUEST – Ron Wolf

After spending the day with Ron Wolf, I doubt I’ll ever look at the ground the same way anymore!

 
Producer's Notes: Your Photos on QUEST—Doug Nomura

Producer's Notes: Your Photos on QUEST—Doug Nomura

San José photographer Doug Nomura has learned just how to track his subjects to create arresting photos of birds in flight. He focuses his work on the Bay Trail, a 300-mile trail around the Bay. QUEST joins Nomura on the bayfront in Sunnyvale as he works to photograph the many bird species that call the South Bay’s mudflats home, or stop here as part of their migration.

 
Our Latest 'Your Photos on QUEST' Contest Winner: Harold Davis

Our Latest 'Your Photos on QUEST' Contest Winner: Harold Davis

Congratulations to Harold Davis, the winner of our most recent YPOQ contest, for his photo set "Miracle Worlds of Nature". He will be featured in a TV segment next month.

 
Producer's Notes: Randy Davis on Your Photos on Quest

Producer's Notes: Randy Davis on Your Photos on Quest

Cycling and photography are two passions of mine that I ardently pursue in my free time, so it was only natural that I felt an immediate kinship with Your Photo on QUEST's featured photographer Randy Davis.

 
Producer's Notes for Your Photos on QUEST: Laura Watt

Producer's Notes for Your Photos on QUEST: Laura Watt

The Flickr set submitted by photographer, sailor & environmental scientist Laura Watt for Your Photos on QUEST (YPOQ) is all about Water. She’s a prolific presence on Flickr, sharing thousands of images with the site’s community of photographers.

 
Producer's notes for Your Photos On Quest: John Albers-Mead

Producer's notes for Your Photos On Quest: John Albers-Mead

We put out a call for submissions for this Your Photos on Quest segment a little late. As a result, we only got a handful of submissions. Thankfully, John Albers-Mead was one of them.

 
Your Photos on QUEST #3: and the winner is…

Your Photos on QUEST #3: and the winner is…

Flickr photo community member jalbersmead (John Albers-Mead) will be collaborating with KQED staff on our next 2-minute YPOQ segment for broadcast and web distribution. It will air on November 18, 2008.

 
Kids Take Aim in Cal Academy Photo Contest

Kids Take Aim in Cal Academy Photo Contest

For the next generation, cell phones, computers, and digital cameras are something they have always known. While I had to get to know how to use the technology as it was developed, they have been introduced to it already molded and they are incredibly comfortable using it. This became readily clear to me coordinating the California in Your Backyard Youth Photo Contest.

 
Through the Lens: California in your backyard

Through the Lens: California in your backyard

The camera has long been an invaluable tool of field researchers. For example, the initial identification of a new mammal species was initiated by a camera trap set up by Francesco Rovero of the Trento Museum of Natural Sciences in the Ndundulu Forest in Tanzania's Udzungwa Mountains. Both Francesco Rovero and Galen Rathbun of the [...]

 

Your Photos on QUEST TV – Call for Submissions

View our original YPOQ pilot featuring photographer Russ MorrisDo you love photographing Science, Environment and Nature in Northern California? Would you like to collaborate on a 2-minute QUEST TV short about your photography for an audience of over 100,000 viewers? We're launching a call for submissions for our new series of TV shorts, "YPOQ: Your [...]