All it takes to be a photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson once said, is “one finger, one eye and two legs”. Then, Cartier-Bresson must have possessed one of the best eyes in the business. Born in 1908 in Paris into a wealthy family, Cartier-Bresson had a lusty, rebellious hunger for travel. With a head full of Rimbaud and a copy of “Ulysses” under his arm, he set off for west Africa in search of adventure. (He aspired to be a painter, but Gertrude Stein suggested he drop the brushes).

"...all it takes to be a photographer
is one finger, one eye and two legs..."

He bought his first Leica in the Côte d’Ivoire when he was 23. It fitted into his pocket, along with a few rolls of film. With this new and light equipment — it and rolls of film fitted nicely into coat pockets — Cartier-Bresson would document everyone from Balinese dancers and Mongolian wrestlers to Spanish matadors and New York bankers. When snapping a spectacle—be it a coronation, a sporting event, or a parade—he trained his camera on the unsuspecting bystanders. He would wait until that “decisive moment” when the right composition filled the frame. And it all came so naturally, too: he rarely used a light meter, checked his aperture setting, took more than a few shots of a single subject, and almost never cropped his photos.

The photo above was taken in 1932 in Hyeres, a small town on the French Riviera, and has been featured in many retrospectives on Cartier Bresson’s work. The decisive moment here nicely juxtaposes the fleeting biker with the spiral staircase; the poignancy of the moment is accentuated by the fact that although the photo seems as if it was taken accidentally or on the spot, we can also imagine Cartier-Bresson crouching over those railings in Hyeres for hours, waiting for the right instant.

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More of Jack, at one week old.

Image courtesy and copyright © 2010 Andrew Freels. www.twitter.com/andrewfreels

I painstakingly created an iPhone 4 Wallpaper based on the backgrounds used in the multitasking dock and in the folders in iOS 4.1. You can download this at the end of this article.

I'm currently using this as my springboard/homescreen background:

Here's the high-res Retina Display wallpaper for download; click/tap to get the fulll size image and to download to your iPhone camera roll, tap and hold the enlarged image and select 'save.'

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NOTE: This is Part 2 of 2

NOTE: This is Part 1 of 2

Download both attachments from this blog (two topics - Parts 1 & 2) and extract the compressed folder into 1 newly created folder, which you should name 'iPhone4 Bundles-UI').No sound files are included in this download.

Everything you need to theme an iPhone 4 with high-resolution Retina Display Icons, Wallpapers, Backgrounds, Images, Themes etc. I extracted the iPhone 4 Firmware images simply because I needed the multi-tasking/folder background/wallpaper.

Here is also a link to download the full package here (however, no guarantee can be given for the validity or integrity of this download.)
4.0 Stock Theme.zip:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ejwnyzyzlym

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