Weather photography/ers

I sit here, safe, on my couch watching the Weather Channel track Hurricane Gustav. Several poor souls are reporting from the storm path and are being beaten down by rain and wind (one fellow just talked about being stung in the face by the rain).

There is nothing like weather to humble humankind. I too am fascinated by it. Weather was in fact the topic of my very first blog post.

I have often wondered, why do we crave such images? Besides the obvious ratings boost, is such weather watching a contemporary desire for the sublime?

I did a quick search and found a photographer "The Weather Paparazzi" and a stock agency "Weather Pix" that specialize in weather photography (visit the former to see his tag line). I share these links only out of curiosity. I hope that all of those in Gustav's path fair the storm. Be safe.

IMAGE: Hurricane Isabel, from here

Sleep Stock

What a week! I am exhausted after our weekend in Western Mass. Work proved just as busy with no end in sight until the end of March. This week, among other things, I participated in a curriculum review for the new digital photography program at the New England Institute of Art (bright and early) and the same day we hosted Lauren Greenfield and had a very late dinner. The intense week keeps going...I teach tomorrow and my guests, Christina Micek and Henry Horenstein, will talk about stock, picture research, and publishing. Then, it's off to the gallery openings.

Thus, fondly remembering how fun and quick my "sick stock" post was, I now present "sleep stock." Note that "sleep" and "sleepy" are different as search terms. I can't wait to sleep in on Saturday!

• Sleep on Fotosearch (and sleepy)
• Sleep on Alamy (and sleepy)
• Sleep on Flickr (apparently, sleeping cats is a common theme, and sleepy ones too)

Sick stock

I am still sick, home, and now lucid enough to try to write for my day job. I will take a break and share with you photos tagged with the subject "sick" in Flickr, www.flickr.com/photos/tags/sick/. (Apparently, people often take pictures of their animals when they are sick.)

In addition, I found some stock photography collections that attempt to convey "being at home sick" aka "sick stock." Some instances are pretty humorous when broken down as such.

• sick at home on fotosearch
• sick on Alamy

And last but not least, check out this image and note the keywords listed as search terms. I think I fit the first 20 of them. Poor little kid. I should take a picture of myself. I could make some money.