The new Nikon D60 we mentioned earlier this week has been getting a lukewarm reception by the online community who feel it’s not a big enough step from the D40x - but I think they’ve missed the point of the camera a little bit. Regardless of that, there’s another “feature” that will exist in the camera which hasn’t been publicized much. The D60 will apparently be “enhanced for Eye-Fi”. » MORE

Every week we pick the sweetest, most breathtaking, most interesting, and most grooviest photo we’ve stumbled across on Flickr during the week and exhibit it here for the Fotohacker community to admire. Are you on Flickr? Your photo could be next.

Flickr: Martin Ujlaki

Every week we pick the sweetest, most breathtaking, most interesting, and most grooviest photo we’ve stumbled across on Flickr during the week and exhibit it here for the Fotohacker community to admire. Are you on Flickr? Your photo could be next.

Flickr: vattenpuss

Every week we pick the sweetest, most breathtaking, most interesting, and most grooviest photo we’ve stumbled across on Flickr during the week and exhibit it here for the Fotohacker community to admire. Are you on Flickr? Your photo could be next.

Flickr: brenbat

Every week we pick the sweetest, most breathtaking, most interesting, and most grooviest photo we’ve stumbled across on Flickr during the week and exhibit it here for the Fotohacker community to admire. Are you on Flickr? Your photo could be next.

Flickr: petecarr

We’ll be picking the sweetest, most breathtaking, interesting, and most grooviest photos we’ve stumbled across on Flickr during the week and exhibiting it here every Saturday. I ultimately would like to start up a Fotohacker Flickr group and get some submissions, but we’ll see how this goes first. Enjoy!

Flickr: Zuan

Trey Ratcliff is one of my favorite “unknown” photographers. He’s only unknown because he doesn’t really do this for a living, not because he potentially couldn’t. Since he first visited Chernobyl and published Part 1 of his two part photo essay from the hot zone, Trey garnered the attention of the online community and his blog has earned itself a lot of traffic.

For a living, Ratcliff works for a game company… in fact, he’s the CEO. During his travels, he takes along his camera and shoots high dynamic range images of (seemingly) everything he sees or can get close to.

Despite the “fad” impression I get surrounding the hype of “HDR” images these days, it’s tough not to love their rich, hyper-real quality. What’s nice about Trey’s photography is his use of HDR. Very few people who attempt HDR imaging seem to understand when enough is enough, and push their images too far. Trey’s photography could easily be misunderstood for impeccably lit traditional photography, but they still have that slightly processed look which is typical of HDR.

Go visit the two part Chernobyl Adventure over at Trey’s blog, “Stuck In Customs“.

You’ve likely experienced some pretty bad roads in your days of driving, but that’s nothing compared to some of the roads in Russia and east Asia - particularly one that connects north and southern siberia. Dark Roasted Blend gives us a visual tour of the Russian-Siberian road to Yakutsk (as well as some other bad roads and trails).

The absolute worst of the bunch, however, is the Road Of Bones, which is a rough mud road that turns into soup when the rainy season hits, trapping miles of cars and their passengers.

This ‘road’ is a 2000 mile stretch which connects Yakutsk to Magadan, and is notoriously bad. It was built by political prisoners under Stalin’s rule, who were often imprisoned at gulags. Many of these people died trying to construct the road, and their bones became a part of the fixture.

The road is in a state of disrepair and is untraversable by standard road vehicles because of washed-out bridges and sections of road reclaimed by streams. During winter, frozen water actually helps river crossings.

Incidentally, the Ewan McGregor produced short series “Long Way Round” featured Ewan and his buddy Charlie trying to traverse the Road Of Bones on their motorcycles.