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Source: 11 phenomenal images of earth.

 

 

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This caiman is the most common crocodilian in the Pantanal (Brazil). It eats exclusively fish. It is easy to approach it just by walking to it (it lets rodents, birds and men approach very near).

Thanks again to BibliOdyssey, here are nice Art Nouveau patterns.

By Maurice Pillard-Verneuil (1869-1942).

After showing you a fake Flickr web site for Yann Arthus-Bertrand, here is his true web site on Pikeo.com:

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

While we’re at that, let’s point you to the latest effort from Yann Arthus-Bertrand: a layer for Google Earth, that allows you to find his photos from “Earth from Above” on the map by Google.

A beautiful WWW is publishing views of Wikipedia where one image sums it up. This map is generated using information about each article (edit activity, links, etc.) The latest graph was done for the Science-related articles.

Greg Scott is really an impressive wild life photographer. His images of hummingbirds are simply astounding: clear, detailed, nicely framed and showing the bird in the most surprising positions.

I bow to this master!

Sources: Greg Scott photo gallery, Greg Scott web site.

The Hirise exploration vessel from NASA arrived near planet MArs last September. Able to shoot photos from the red planet at an amazing resolution (around 1 meter per pixel), Hirise sends us back some really astounding images. Some of them bring the memory of the great images of Y.Arthus-Bertrand in his Earth seen from the sky (without the human element he normally always includes, of course). And the black and white images remind the B&W photographer about the key rule of always checking what quality textures s/he will include in the photos.

The photorgaph shown here is of the Victoria crater in the equatorial region of Meridiani Planum. You find a distinctively “scalloped” or “festooned” rim around the 800-meter diameter crater. Inside it, the finer material formed a network of dunes sized about a few meters to tens of meters.

Source: NASA.

NASA finally decided to publish high-resolution scans of all the photos taken by the Lunar Apollo expeditions in the 60’s and 70’s. A huge publication work but that is welcome remembering the enormous successes and horrendous claims that accompany them.

A web site with many cool images of Earth as seen from space.

The famous photographer of “Earth seen from the Sky” now has a page on Flickr. What is happening here? While he is still very attentive to the management of his photographer’s rights and of his fame, Yann Arthus Bertrand would have fallen into a liberated open publishing media?

Of course, not. This is just an April’s fool idea that stayed a little longer.

Champs de blé dans la papouasie sud.

I am fascinated that the page was kept on Flickr, but the experience is quite funny. I just hope it won’t become a Flickr trend. But feel free to point at other similar pages…

A nice black and white photo from heavenuphere where the eye can fall easily.

About a month ago, I was invited by a friend to a music workshop where he is participating in the Cultural center of the Gazometro in Porto Alegre (Brazil). I had brought my digital camera et here are some of the images produced then despite the awfully limited light.

Note: Just click on the thumbnails below if you want to see the larger photos.

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No doubt the lack of light limited the possibilities (slow speed, high sensitivy and hard lights all compete to produce movement blurs, digital noise and high contrasts) but with some attention you may bring back some images nearly acceptable even if they would not be printed in large format (or you have to love blurred and grainy photos).

My prefered ones are marked with ***

Born in the Berlin zoo.

Markus Schreiber

Year after year, there are a few photo images that wrote History. LukeProg found 52 of them. The choice is always subjective, but most of them really hit the public.

Martin Forget has a photographic eye I envy. His animal and natural wildlife photos are simply delicious, vivid, surprising like this one:

You will certainnly want to stop by his web site. But if you only have a minute, I invite you to a shortcut to his images on photo.net and you will see that he also looks upon other subjects.

You should visit the web site of Dave Anastasi (East3rd): He is publishing quite regularly his own photos. They are mostly abstract and colourful like this one:

I even subscribed to his RSS feed to be sure to receive all of these photos as soon as they are available. A refreshing sight, a surprise per week (more or less).

A photo gallery only about nuclear explosions: nuclear.fatal.ru from Russia.