Month: October 2008
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Surprise! You can find color in B&W photos
This is easy to reduce a color photo to a B&W image (any photo software or any B&W photocopier can do it). But the reverse operation seems difficult at best, impossible in most cases. However, a team of French scientists from the French INRIA (Guillaume Charpiat, Matthias Hofmann et Bernhard Schölkopf) presented recently an algorithm…
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The lionness lunch
Found in the morning, this lionness had just kill a gnu (wildebeest). After eating most of it, she actually tried to hide the carcass in order to avoid seeing it stolen by others (hyenas or vultures, for example). Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Lion (Panthera leo, Lion, León), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.
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Can you buy a giraffe?
When I look into the logs of my web site, I sometimes discover bizarre little gems. For example, I recently noticed that somebody reached my web site through a search engine looking for: “buy a giraffe“. I still wonder whether he or she was looking for the real animal or a poster or photo of…
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Hyena after lunch
In the coming days, I will post a number of images taken in Masai Mara National Park, Kenya, of various carnivore animals after or during lunch. Beware, it may be a little more disturbing than most subjects, for sensitive or young people. However, this is routine observation in the wild: Big cats are nice but…
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CDBurnerXP goes Portable
I always recommended the excellent CDBurnerXP for burning your CD and DVD discs. It’s free and does all the commercial programs do. Now, the editor publishes CDBurnerXP Portable (download it for free). It goes on a USB stick and can follow you everywhere.
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Free shipping on prints, posters!
Some of my best images are available are posters, cards, prints, laminated prints, etc. on RedBubble.com. I like the quality of their service, their prices and the broad support (including good discussion forums about photo). What you’ll like even more is that they reduced the shipping costs to NOTHING for a week. They are celebrating…