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Thursday, January 06, 2005
Kyle MacLachlan always travels with his $4000 Sony Qualia digital camera. He has donated some images that he recently took during down time from shooting his TNT mini-series The Librarian: Quest for the Spear in Thailand to TakeGreatPictures.com.
Photographs from other travel destinations including iconic Moscow buildings reflected in water, tropical sunsets, and a historical sailing vessel are also featured TakeGreatPictures.com. Some of Kyle's images are featured in the Jan/Feb issue of American Photo and are also part of a traveling photo exhibition, Life of Luxury, also featuring images taken by other Qualia photographers Ashley Judd, Herbie Handcock and Joel Grey.
MacLachlan is best known for his role as Trey MacDougal in HBOs Sex and the City series. The actor made his film debut in 1984 in auteur director David Lynch's Dune. MacLachlan later starred in Lynch's Blue Velvet and TV serial 'Twin Peaks,' in which he played FBI Agent Dale Cooper in a Golden Globe winning turn. He has also appeared as Ray Manzarek in Oliver Stone's The Doors. More recently, MacLachlan starred as the spirit of Cary Grant in the critically acclaimed Touch of Pink.
MacLachlan joins the ever growing list of famous faces who have posted their images on www.takegreatpictures.com. Actor Jeff Bridges shares his behind-the-scenes portraits from the sets of films such as The Big Lebowski, The Fabulous Baker Boys, and The Fisher King. Supermodel Tyra Banks posts some heartwarming photos she snapped at her "T-Zone" youth camp. Henry Winkler provides some gorgeous landscape shots taken during his travels. Kenny Rogers flaunts his images of celebrities, including Dwight Yoakam, Frank Sinatra and Muhammad Ali as well as nature shots of Lake Michigan and Chinle, Arizona. Ex New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani shows off his own snapshots of New York City landmarks and 'One Life to Live' actor Nathan Purdee displays his black and white portrait shots of actresses, models and nature. Actor Jamie Elman, who plays Luke Foley on NBCs Sunday night drama American Dreams, provides behind the scenes photos on the set of this hit show. Country icon Marty Stuart has posted some of his photos which include candids of Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Jr., Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and Bill Monroe. Star Trek stars Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner have also donated photos to the site.