[Vision2020] Fw:Sunday Stills: Explore the Humble Island That Was Traded for Manhattan, the Mysteries of Gothic Cathedrals, and More

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Date: 06/28/15 14:02:04

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 Sunday Stills
 Issue 42
Sunday, June 28, 2015



 PROOF
 The Humble Island That Was Traded for Manhattan  
 Photographs by Muhammad Fadli
 Nutmeg was once so rare and coveted that it started wars and inspired modern capitalism. That’s what may have made the small Indonesian island of Run—once a primary source of the spice—a seemingly natural trade-off for a little fur-trading post called Manhattan. Almost 350 years after the exchange, a photographer explores modern-day Run (rhymes with “dune”) and finds a stark contrast from the city that never sleeps.
 
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 PROOF
 Midnight Sun
 Photograph by Chris McCaw, courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
 During the Arctic summer, the sun never dips below the horizon but is always on the move. Using a process he discovered by accident, Chris McCaw illustrates just that, embracing the sun’s power to create and destroy as it literally burns a path across his long-exposure images.
 
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 ADVENTURE
 Heal: A Best Friend Says Goodbye
 Photograph by Lisa Skaff
 Denali is dying—and he’s pretty sure his best friend knows. Winner of the Best of the Festival award at the 2015 5Point Film Festival, this touching tribute to friendship, loyalty, and beating the odds takes us inside one adventurer’s last days.
 
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 NEWS
 Meticulous Imperfection
 Images courtesy Andrew Tallon, Vassar College
 Art historian Andrew Tallon uses lasers and a bit of faith to map the world’s Gothic cathedrals, including Notre Dame in Paris. The resulting scans have more than a billion bits of data—and reveal that the engineers and architects of the past weren’t as interested in flawlessness as we thought.
 
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 YOUR SHOT
 At Home on the Range
 Photograph by Shiyu Zhuang
 David Guttenfelder is known for giving us an unparalleled view of North Korea, but his latest magazine assignment has him chasing bison in Yellowstone National Park. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons he chose Shiyu Zhuang’s timeless deer image while editing a recent Your Shot hashtag assignment on picturing exploration. We’ll have to ask the next time we encounter him in the wild.
 
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 TRAVEL
 Brilliant Work
 Photograph by Matthew Smith
 After hours of trial and error, Matthew Smith captured this vivid shot of Portuguese man-of-wars in Bushrangers Bay, Australia. The photo is big in all respects, but the creature is only about the size of your thumb. To capture the blue glow, Smith created his own underwater studio using fiber-optic snoots and diffusers on his flashes.

Smith’s photo is competing with other images in the Traveler Photo Contest. Submit your own by June 30 at 12 p.m. EDT.
 
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