I was reading peteralway often writes about models he's building. On a recent evening, his subject was the USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine. He mentioned misgivings about the accuracy of the model's hull cross-section.

This made me wonder about finding reference photos online-- and, naturally, it led me to wonder whether Life had taken ( Read more... )

The Google Life trove documents a thousand encounters between scientists and photographers.

There's an oft-retold story-- it seems to have first seen print with John J. McPhaul in his 1962 book Deadlines and Monkeyshines: the Fabled World of Chicago Journalism (thanks again, Google!) -- about a photographer named Sam. He was assigned to cover a ( Read more... )