I have previously linked to Bill Wadman’s 365 Portraits on my TumbleDrew site. But I’ve just been looking at the site again and wanted to draw more attention to it.

Bill Wadman has to be the best portrait photographer I have ever seen. Technically, he achieves such wonderful sharpness and clarity in his images. This is combined with great colours and tones. Finally, how he manages to capture the uniqueness of a random person each day is amazing. Just by looking at their portrait, I get a sense of knowing the person.

As an example, have a look at this one, and this one, and finally, this one. But really, they’re all great!

I’ve got a real soft-spot for a particularly art style that was very predominant around the 1950′s. It was a kind of watercolor/pencil kind of look and to my mind present almost a utopian view. I can’t describe it very well, but [Paleo-Future](http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/) presents a great example [at this blog post](http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/05/commuter-helicopter-1947.html).

What’s even greater about that linked post is that it not only has that type of cool art work that I like, but it also combines a view of what people thought technology might come to. How much would you love to have a personal helicopter? Ah, for the days where there was no awareness of pollution, global warming, or terrorism.