Up-close pics of famous 1960′s folksters by a teenage photojournalist - Bob Dylan, Son House, Mary Travers, Mississippi John Hurt

John Rudoff is a cardiologist in Portland, but long before he embarked on that prestigious career he had aspirations to be a photographer. As a teenager, he combined his burgeoning interest in photography and folk music by snapping photos of the acts who played at the coffee shop he worked at in Pennsylvania as well as photographing many of the acts at several festivals he had the opportunity to attend.
It seems apparent from his photos that he had no qualms edging his way to the front to get the best shot he could.
Here are a few of his pictures. Visit his page on Flickr for well over a hundred more…

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, 1963

 

Son House, 1964

Bob Dylan, 1964

 

Mary Travers with Mimi and Dick Farina, 1965

Son House, 1965

Mississippi John Hurt, 1965

 

Lightning Hopkins, 1965

Bob Dylan, 1965

Someone with a road roller really hates bad Scotch - That's Johnnie Walker Rd

New York Underground

 Not to scale
Click here to go to National Geographic for more detail

Really Bad Dog

Shocking aerial views of the Colorado fire devastation

A look at the tragic results of the Waldo Canyon fire outside Colorado Springs…

This Ain't Sea World

Star Wars Sculptures In The Eye Of A Needle

Cake Of Sauron - Always Watching

The Real Expendables

The door to Hell is in Turkmenistan

In 1971, Soviet geologists drilled into a cavern of natural gas near the Turkmen village of Derweze.
The ground gave way beneath their machinery, forming a 230-foot-wide sinkhole. In order to control the emission of gas from this new aperture between us and the underworld, they decided to burn it, expecting the fire to use up the fuel in a few days.
It’s still burning today.

House-shaped tree created by extreme winds

According to the photographer who posted these pics from Denmark, this tree looks like this because,

This old pink house is situated at the old dunes, a few hundred meters from the west coast, a very windy place were there isn’t much that can grow. So the tree can only grow where it has shelter…

Wind…and maybe some pruning here and there, too. Still cool, though.

Most dangerous playground in the world?

22 words

50 State Movie Map

Optical Illusion or a herd of Zebras?

The Serengeti is awash in zebras

The Super Bowl halftime show reveals our inconsistent standards of decency

22 words

Red - Painting with a Basketball - Yao Ming Portrait

Here's a painting of NBA superstar Yao Ming I did, with some red paint and a basketball! I guess all those years of basketball training in high school did come in handy!

Trouble In The Magic Kingdom - Minnie Down And Out

The Mackinaw Bridge - Pure Michigan

This photo was taken from a web cam January 19, 2012 of the Mackinaw Bridge ~ Pure
Michigan....

Garfield Blues Band at The Governors Inn, Buffalo New York

From left to right: Bob Babitch on piano, Garfield Angove vocals, harmonica, Mark Freer bass, Denny Mobley drums. At The Governors Inn Buffalo NY, home to Little Lucky Peterson. About 1969

Satellite Image of North and South Korea

The area of the map with no light is North Korea.  The lit up part is South Korea.  Northeast of North Korea is China.  A picture says a thousand words.