(Wednesday, April 30th, 2008)
You may think that I am partial presenting you this portfolio today. Yes! Anne Roumazeilles is my nephew. But I really love what she does while she only began shooting photos a short time ago.
I let you judge these images taken in テ四e de Rテゥ (on the Atlantic coast of France) and feel free to leave a comment (or constructive criticism).
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Copyright (C) 2007-08 Anne Roumazeilles – All rights reserved.
For Jacques.
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(Wednesday, April 30th, 2008)
Straight lines are actually really parallels.
It’s your brain trying to convince you they’re not.
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(Wednesday, April 30th, 2008)
Happy news here: I finally bought a lens I wanted for quite some time. I found and paid on eBay a Minolta APO G 400mm f/4.5 (Yes! The old white lens that is renowned so much for its optical and mechanical quality, while being nearly impossible to find in auctions).
It will go really well with the Giottos MT 8251 carbon tripod and the MH 1001-652 ball-head I bought a month ago in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China.
Soon to arrive from Osaka, Japan. I can’t wait.
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(Tuesday, April 29th, 2008)

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Brown-hooded Gull (Larus maculipennis, Mouette de Patagonie). Brazil, 2007.
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(Tuesday, April 29th, 2008)
Like all Internet reviewers, I hate this title because of the strain it puts on the writer just to put the name down on the keyboard. However, it has received a number of reviews. Let’s see some of them:
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(Monday, April 28th, 2008)
I don’t know why (maybe because I’m looking for them) but I seem to find plenty of posts about optimizing your photography of food. Let’s share some of the best ones here:
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(Sunday, April 27th, 2008)
This was a little event a few days ago: Adobe launched its first beta version of the online PhotoShop under the name of Photoshop Express. As it was easy to predict, it’s not as simple as marketing would like you to believe and you cannot replace one by the other as most of the reviews hereafter will show you:
- Les Numテゥriques (en franテァais): would better use Picasa to share the images prepared with Photoshop Express, and would want to see Raw files management, curves and histograms, and masks.
- Ars Technica (in English): it is rahter a cross between iPhoto and Adobe Bridge, but they love the basic features and (including color correction).
- Baekdal.com (in English) : disappointed; This is not an image editor, by far – just a fun way to apply a few corrections/effects. Woudl rather recommend Splashup, he feels is superior.
- Photojojo (in English): This is certainly not Photoshop but it does very well what it offers (basic image edition/correction).
- LifeHacker: Not the Full PS Package, but Good Web-Based Editing
- Pixinfo.com (in Hungarian): Honest! I didn’t understand what they think about it…
To notice: Photoshop Express is free, limited to 2GB of online storage (easy to reach) and in English only for now.
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(Sunday, April 27th, 2008)
The largest gull of South-American continent, easily recognized from its plummage and the red spot on the inferior mandible of its yellow beak.

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Kelp gull (Larus dominicanus, Goテゥland dominicain). Brazil, 2007.
Note: These kelp gull photos are the beginning of a series of images I brought back from Brazil in last January. You will see here one post every two days with a new animal (mostly birds), with one or more photos. Keep visiting us.
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(Saturday, April 26th, 2008)
“You’ve got to love those coins!” Do you believe that I could tell you so? Surely not. Even better, you can be surprised to learn that I found that in a web site about design and arts (Baekdal.com). And it is defintely a great design for something as old as coins.
The new UK coins have been designed to be elegantly assembled in a single pattern:
Source: Can Coins Look Sexy?
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(Friday, April 25th, 2008)
I found this funny little piece of SciFi/security litterature. I’m sure you’ll like it.
The man blurred into existence behind the dense shrubs, and checked a small device he took from his pocket. Since time and date seemed correct, he straightened his sports coat and stepped from behind the bushes.
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(Thursday, April 24th, 2008)
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(Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008)
It took all the art of bbzippo, some Lego bricks and some Photoshop editing, too.
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(Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008)
Titled “Wire Your Living Room Over Wi-Fi with a Bridge“, a post from LifeHacker.
With subjects like:
- Why a Wireless Bridge?
- How a Wireless Bridge Works
- Setting Up the Wireless Bridge (a Buffalo airstation)
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(Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008)
After appearing on gaming consoles, Assassin’s Creed arrived on PC and it seems that the effort was made to ensure that contrary to the previous habit of bad ports from console to PC, it supported well the transfer from one platform to the next (test 1, test 2).
Notice 1: Point Of View offers the video game with most of its GeForce video cards.
Notice 2: Recently, a 3D test has shown that the DirectX 10 rendering was over-simplified by Assassin’s Creed (with undue performance gains at the cost of image quality). There is a patch planned in the short term to correct this.
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(Monday, April 21st, 2008)
There is no sign of the annoucement of a new successor to the Canon EOS 5D (under the name of Canon EOS 5D Mk II) for tomorrow, despite what had been forecasted by some. There was indeed a relatively safe information given on a DPReview forum indicating an August 2008 target (and a new EOS 3D series in 2009).
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(Monday, April 21st, 2008)
A few top-quality images taken by James Pan. Felines, lovely big cats and other animals shot in perfect portraits.
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(Sunday, April 20th, 2008)
Feline teeth are their most prominent exterior feature. Since the prehistoric Smilodon (the smiling feline) and its gigantic canines, big cats use their impressive dental characteristics to hunt.
On the Laelaps web site, you will find a detaileld article on feline teeth, from yesterday to nowadays: What big teeth you have. Please, also notice the hunting videos (lions hunting elephant, lions hunting a giraffe).
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