“Henri Cartier-Bresson was known for photographing what he called the ‘decisive moment,’ that moment when everything falls into place. But I was more interested in the moments before or after the decisive moment.” — Alfred Wertheimer
baseball: fsu @ unc, game two
baseball: fsu @ unc, game two, originally uploaded by minervacat. Baseball photography. Since I launched this blog a year ago today, with a photo of an occasionally idiotic third baseman and a brief discussion of baseball photography, what better way to celebrate a year than more baseball photography talk? Obviously I take a lot of…
josh ritter — so runs the world away
josh ritter @ the cat’s cradle, carrboro, nc, originally uploaded by minervacat. Josh Ritter — So Runs The World Away. Out 4/17 on limited release vinyl for Record Store Day 2010; out wide release on 5/4, V2 Records. Thank god for Record Store Day vinyl releases, is all I’m saying. There’s not much that Josh…
baseball: norfolk tides @ durham bulls
Twenty. Anatomy of a pitcher.
carrboro farmer’s market
carrboro farmer’s market, originally uploaded by minervacat. A few weeks ago, shep. shared this New York Times article on people who photograph their food on Google Reader, and I just wanted to echo her sentiment from the original share: food photography on that level will make you a lunatic, and I still both miss it…
the new familiars @ broad street cafe
the new familiars @ broad street cafe, originally uploaded by minervacat. The New Familiars do a lot of things exceedingly well, including the all-purpose “being awesome and beloved to me”, but one thing that they do above and beyond almost anyone I see play live regularly is a cover song — with no regard to…
five dollars says that your heart goes with it
the big picture photo shoot, originally uploaded by minervacat. Rocking my world in terms of inspiration: HypeBot’s commissioned visualizations of 2009’s most posted artists. The AV Club’s AV Undercover, a series of commissioned covers recorded in their offices. 40 Brilliant and Creative Examples of Toy Photography. Via Michelle. Loving The Ballpark Hunter, one man’s site…
the never @ unc union cabaret
the never @ unc union cabaret, originally uploaded by minervacat. Sometimes it’s hard for me to go see people I count as friends play shows; most of the time not, because they all play in bands I objectively as well as subjectively love and so it’s good music and usually it’s easy, but sometimes it’s…
hello brown one hello blue one
unc campus, spring, originally uploaded by minervacat. hello blackbird, hello starling winter’s over, be my darling long time coming but now the snow is gone
baseball: nc state @ unc, game three
baseball: nc state @ unc, game three, originally uploaded by minervacat. Nineteen. Just a couple of hours after I took this, no one on the UNC baseball team had any hair anymore. (Photos of that are here.)
brand new kind of photography 