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Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • Natural selection in the act – Life is hard in the bush

    If you want to survive, live long and have siblings, you need to eat. This is not going to happen if your food is stolen: Link To be clear, I did not see that when in South Africa two months ago, but I would have loved to be there shooting images… And I can tell…

  • FreeMeter: to keep tabs on your connection

    FreeMeter is a small Windows utility displaying a graph showing your network/Internet usage. Simply, tidy, you can try it.

  • Intel/AMD, at war again

    July will be another month of price wars for Intel and AMD (after a very bumpy April). Both announced that they would shoot prices down once again in July trying to grab a larger market share (for AMD) or trying to asphyxiate the competition (for Intel). AMD will start at the beginning of the month.…

  • Rotate

    Rotate

    It is time again to loose time on a Friday afternoon. Today, you must click on parts on the image to rotate them in order to rebuild the original image.

  • Script for 404 random page found

    Some people have been wondering how I did the random selection of 404 page not found messages that are used on this web site. So, here is the nice little PHP script that I use here to redirect randomly to one of the right pages: <?PHP $address_list = array( “/404/404-01.php”, “/404/404-02.php”, “/404/404-03.php”, “/404/404-04.php”, “/404/404-05.php”, “/404/404-06.php”,…

  • Danses from the Center of France (Limousin)

    Danses from the Center of France (Limousin)

    Last weekend was very fruitful in terms of photo opportunities: La Veillée Limousine (the Limousin evening) was having a public show of traditional danses and songs. Danse Limousine Danse Limousine Jeune Limousine Jeune Limousine Limousin (Click on the thumbnails to see the larger image) Thanks to La Veillée Limousine.

  • Photographs of photographers

    Photographs of photographers

    Photographers are a bizarre kind of animals. So, they are themselves a subject for photography. And some of them are more surprising/funny than others. Link: Legko.be (beware, one may be NSfW – Not Safe for Work).

  • Panorama of the LHC

    The Large Hadron Collider, the next monster from experimental physics in CERN at Geneva, is currently being built. Peter McCready shot a photo of it in a magnificent panorama (or is it the LHC that is really magnificent?). Source: Neatorama.

  • Rent your lenses

    PopPhoto has a nice short article about renting your lenses in the US.