Normally, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is interesting only the physicists for its uses in scientific research and the physicians for the fabulous pictures it gives of the insides of the human body.
An MRI scanner will allow to display fine cuts of the body of the patient laid into the machine, but what is to be seen when the human guinea pig is replaced with fruits or vegetables? We discover the new face of these friends of our everyday food. And when the pictures are animated, this gives something like:
These pictures of Russia are color photos taken a few years before the October REvolution. A memory of a far era and of a society which has been deeply transformed in the following years.
Pinkhus Karlinskii, eighty-four years old with sixty-six years of service. Supervisor of Chernigov floodgate, part of the Mariinskii Canal system. Photo taken in 1909. (Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/LOC)
On YLovePhoto, you will find a commentary drawing a relation between the possible future Nikon D800 and the other possible replacement of the existing Nikon D700: Nikon D800 instead of D700s?
You find them anywhere and everywhere, but it’s not always worth the visit. To find a beautiful wallpaper for your computer (even more if it has seevral screens), you need to find reliable sources of nice wallpapers. I wrote down a few of the best ones here:
A simple reminder, if you have multiple screens, your PC will appreciate your using DisplayFusion, the perfect software to handle corectly those large picture files. Like I do it with this photo of a rbown snake eagle taken in Kenya (backlit by the setting sun).
2,053 nuclear explosions took place around the world during the 20th century, starting with the detonations at Alamogordo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the more recent tests in India and Pakistan in 1998.
When designing web sites, many graphic artists over-design forgetting a little-known fact: Around 5% or male Europeans or Caucasians have some sort of color blindness. For most of them it is only a small hindrance, but in some conditions it can become quite annoying. For example, when a web designer relied too heavily on color and made the web site nearly impossible to use by this large segment of the population.
I found a good web site that will help you determine if you are color blind and which will support web designers trying to make their web sites better: WeAreColorBlind.com. They are even providing patterns that show how best to use colors in this context.
If you want more support, I also recommend a visit to Chrometric, a web site where you will be able to freely download a tool to test your web site against various kinds of color blindnesses (you know that not all people have the same kind of insensitivity to colors, don’t you?) and allow you to test various solutions or improvement you may have designed.
For example, my other web site, www.YLovePhoto.com as seen by 6% of the male population:
This medium-sized eagle was a great discovery for me in Botswana. The African Harrier Hawk (Gymnogene) hunts for insects and small animals in dead trees and rocks. It’s very mobile and devilishly active.
Gymnogène d'Afrique - African Harrier-Hawk
Gymnogène d'Afrique - African Harrier-Hawk
Gymnogène d'Afrique - African Harrier-Hawk
Gymnogène d'Afrique - African Harrier-Hawk
Gymnogène d'Afrique - African Harrier-Hawk
Gymnogène d'Afrique - African Harrier-Hawk
African harrier Hawk (or Gymnogene) (Polyboroides typus), Gymnogène d’Afrique.
Moremi National Park, Botswana, May 2010.
I love this bird. It seems to be right out of the illustrations of a XIXth Century book about prehistoric wildlife (and it’s the only living species of the genus Scopus). I love its name. It seems a near impossibility (that’s probably why there are so many other possible names like Hammerkop, Hammerkopf, Hammerhead, Hammerhead Stork, Umbrette, Umber Bird, Tufted Umber, or Anvilhead).
Hamerkop
Hamerkop
Hamerkop
Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta), Ombrette.
Moremi National Park, Botswana, May 2010.
Building a tall structure able to resist the worst earthquakes, asks for some flexibility in the architecture. For this, it may be useful to do some tests simulating the furious conditions of a real earthquake.
Some may be hesitating slightly when they are told the exact name of this large bird. Isn’t it a hoax or a word play? But ornythologists love these names as complicated, as tortured as they come in Wattled Crane, without even listening to the sound and considering only yhe precise description of the brightly-coloured flesh extensions ornating the face of this crane.
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