#Dennis Sartor

[queenofthemasquerade]

Classroom Zero - Vampire Eyes

[waildance]

Fiat Lux: Illuminating our Common Home from Minds Over Matter on Vimeo.

Obscura was chosen by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council to create a contemporary artistic interpretation of Pope Francis’ Encyclical, “Laudato Si.” The large-scale architectural projection show entitled: “Fiat Lux: Illuminating Our Common Home” was presented as a gift to Pope Francis to celebrate the opening of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. It was the first time that art has ever been projected onto St. Peter’s Basilica.

“Laudato Si,” means “Praise be to you,” a phrase commonly used by Saint Francis, the patron saint of animals and ecology and Pope Francis’ namesake. In writing his impassioned plea for greater focus on the environment, Pope Francis cited areas of particular concern: pollution and climate change, the lack of clean water for much of the world’s population, and loss of biodiversity.

To bring the pope’s message to life, Obscura created an unprecedented 60-minute show featuring powerful images of humanity diversity and natural beauty from world-renowned photographers and curated by Travis Threlkel and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Louie Psyhoyos (The Cove). Using 21st century art and 50 high lumen projectors, the show was presented as a visual symphony in seven movements. A crowd of over 200,000 people gathered to watch the show live in the Piazza San Pietro, while 4 million watched via live stream video. Media coverage generated another billion global impressions.

Fiat Lux: Illuminating our Common Home featured the work of some of the world’s most noted humanistic and nature photographers and filmmakers including Sebastiao Salgado and Amazonas Images, Joel Sartore and his Photo Ark series, Yann Arthus Bertrand, David Doubilet, Ron Fricke, Howard Hall, Shawn Heinrichs, Greg Huglin, Chris Jordan, Mark Magidson, Steve McCurry, Louie Schwartzberg and Paul Nicklen. Funding provide by the Li Ka Shing Foundation and Vulcan Productions. Natural sound effects provided by Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Projection and Design: obscuradigital.com Music: Arvo Pärt: Fratres

OBSCURA TEAM Travis Threlkel - Chief Creative Officer Chris Lejeune - Chief Executive Officer / Account Executive Matty Dowlen - Chief of Production Andrew Plourde - Senior Technical Director Marc Melzer - Director of Media Arts Barry Threw - Director of Interactive Sean Holt - Director of IT Emmett Feldman - Senior Art Director Jennifer Williams - Producer Ari Ali - Senior Media Producer Anna Le Breton - Production Coordinator Doni Dennis - Marketing Director Tim Digulla - Art Director Ron Robinson - Art Director Tony Grisey - Senior Animator Jim Ellis - Technical Director/3D Animation Eddy Katt - 3D Animator Alexi Alexaieff - Technical Artist Brittnie Diamant - Production Artist Bryant Place - Interactive Engineer Harvey Moon - Interactive Engineer Anton Heestand - Interactive Engineer Christopher Houchin - Technical Director Nick Lynch - Technical Director Diego Novoa - Technical Director Nathan Houchin - Technical Director Michelle Grenier - Associate Creative Director Joshua Brott - Director of Photography Brandon Moore - Assistant Photographer Eric Schneider - Purchasing Ethan Indorf - Editor Tim McMahon - Editor Alex Oropeza - Music Director Harald Boyesen - Sound Design Lucy Sheils - Sound Design

[jfarrowphotos]

Present-day Photographers Who Rock!

I've been compiling a list of my favorite present-day photographers for a little while now. Everyone on this list has something amazing to offer. I did my best to very roughly describe what genre each one primarily shoots. Give any/all these folks a lookup and I'm certain you'll be glad you did. •Clark Little - waves •Timckenna - waves •Alex Mustard - underwater ocean •Jay Manning - landscape and water droplet reflections •Frank Colosi - landscape •Ryan Mccasland - beach and skateboarding •Jim Grant San Diego - beach and bubbles •Chris Burkard - landscape and arctic surfing •Thomas Shahan - macro •Rachel Jones Ross - landscape travel and astrophotography •Lisa Bao - San Francisco landscape and architecture •Darren White - landscape •Dan Greenwood - landscape •Daniel Kordan - landscape and travel •Joel Robinson - conceptual •Trey Ratcliff - High dynamic range (HDR) and travel •Charles Wereneth - landscape portraiture and conceptual •Darien Cook - portraiture •Lee Cook - landscape and astrophotography •RLSimagesphotography - portraiture (male modeling) •MGW photography - portraiture (female modeling) •Chris Eyre Walker - landscape •Aaron Goulding - La Jolla beach and water •Getty photography - San Francisco fog •Jessmichelledlp - beach •Timothy Poulton - landscape •Iurie Belegurschi - landscape Iceland •Michael Goh (astrophobear) - astrophotography •Jason Lanier - portraiture and weddings •Serge Ramelli (photoserge) - travel •Charlie Keating - landscape •Mack Murdoc - light painting •Jan Bedoire (jabe147) - landscape Switzerland •Joey Taylor - landscape and surf •Carina Ortner - long exposure self portraiture •Gianluca Podestà - landscape •Ben Mulder - beach reflections •Max Rive - landscape •Tom Hill - landscape •Michael Shainblum - landscape and cityscape •Bodhi Smith - astrophotography •Mike demello - landscape cityscape and fireworks •Steven Wilson - long exposure ocean •Bryce Mironuck - landscape •Mike Oblinski - clouds and storms •Fabian Herschler - landscape •Dennis Liang - landscape •Simon Roppel - landscape •Eric Paré - light painting / landscape portraiture •Josh Perret - Landscape and architecture •Jonas Piontek - Landscape and storms •Kenny Roland - portraiture (female modeling) •Vincent James - landscape and mist/fog •Jude Allen - landscape and architecture •Aaron Burden - landscape and macro •Will Auyeung - landscape •José Ramos - landscape •Kyrenian - landscape and travel •Tony Bennett - landscape cityscape and portraiture •Kenan Hurdenez (old kyrenian) - landscape •Zach Vant Erve - landscape •Jacob Riglin - travel •Chris (independentcbh) - landscape and architecture •Joe Sartore - Animals •Starving Photographer - landscape and travel •Arild Heitmann - landscape •John Lafleur (keonishootz) - landscape •Eric Rubens - landscape •Sean Pierce (prevailz) - astrophotography and landscape •Floyd Casem (lehiwaphoto) - landscape •Stevin Tuchiwsky (stevint) - landscape •Jasman Mander - landscape