Photography fans...

Check out Stephanzirwes.com for the sweeping majesty of one man’s personal approach to aerial photography.

…And the recently launched, full-screen photo blog, Lens, one of the freshest offerings yet from the New York Times’s Website.

The Obama administration, acknowledging its errant ways in this rare slip-up, shares with the public the boneheaded "flyover" photo (see description in previous posting, below). Some say a picture is worth a thousand words. This shot, according to news reports, cost taxpayers a cool three hundred thousand. Dollars, that is.

WHITE HOUSE PHOTO

What does it say about political operatives’ and marketers’ regard for image over substance when a White House official is so keen on getting a photo op (and so insensitive to the feelings of New York residents) that he green-lights a flyover of Lower Manhattan by Air Force One merely for the camera’s sake? Didn’t we learn enough from George Bush’s "Mission Accomplished" debacle?

And why on earth is the Obama administration, which says it values transparency, now declaring those photographs “classified,” refusing to release them?