Flickr star: madcappp

In lieu of posting my own material, which will come in time, I'd like to highlight people who inspire me.

I keep a close eye on Flickr, so I know when users I like have made new posts to the site. Madcappp does not put up photos very frequently, but I see a relation between these long intervals and his quiet compositions.

I know that for every image that makes it to Flickr, there must be plenty of imperfect ones. Still, I prefer to imagine that the time between posts corresponds to the conception and realization of a single idea.

Of course that's not the case, but who's to know the difference? The value of keeping an uncluttered photostream.

Image overload

William Eggleston on FFFFOUND!

FFFFOUND.com is a site for "image bookmarking." Right now it's only open by invitation, but you can play around with the site and subscribe to the RSS feeds. There's a lot of material posted daily, but a little patience can yield excellent work.

Is it only a matter of time before an open venue like this, even more so than a hyperactive environment like Flickr, becomes the place for talent to be—found?

Young liars

FJORD is a site that displays the work of internet photographers whose average age I estimate at around 21. It started, where else, "at a café in Brooklyn." The site lists the birth year of each photographer, which is a gesture worth thinking about.