Category: Digital photography
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Elephants of Botswana
The elephants being very large mammals does not prohibit applying them wide-angle photography. And why not using a panoramic frame? Or even a vertical panorama? Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Botswana 2010, Moremi
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Elephants of Botswana
When elephants are too near to the photo camera, the only way to shoot a good picture is to concentrate on bits and pieces: Elephant ears, elephant eyes, elephant tusks. Botswana 2010, Moremi
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Little bee-eaters
Back from Botswana, I grouped a few pictures which seemed worth sharing with you here. I’ll start with some birds. Little bee-eater (Merops pusillus), Guêpier nain Botswana 2010, Moremi
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Drunk in the jungle
Did you know it? Marula is a kind of fig quite common in Sub-saharian Africa that is (too) much appreciated by elephants and many other animals. But when it get old and ripe, it starts fermenting quickly. Then, this worthless fruit should receive the warning label like “Drink responsibly” or “Don’t drink and drive”. YouTube…
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Canon and the robot: A high-rez fable
There is a race to obtain the largest possible digital photography and you have seen quite a number of them in our record images theme here. Today, Gerald Donovan, a Dubai-based photographer has associated the best photo robot and a Canon EOS 7D D-SLR camera. This contraption allowed to automatically shoot nearly a million (!)…
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Even more pixels: Dresden
We have seen many, but today’s world record is a 26-gigapixel panoramic image of Dresden, Germany. I did not write 26-megapixel. It’s 1000 times what you’d expect from a better-than-high-end digital SLR photo camera. This impressive photo is made of 1,665 individual shots captured with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II photo camera armed with…
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Even a croc must be cautious
Suppose you’re a crocodile and you want to cross a river. What would be better than avoiding water altogether by walking on the back of hippos? Nothing, except that hippos are not zebras. Click on the picture to see the whole story. After all, there is no surprise when you know that, in Africa, the…
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1.8 gigapixel camera, but for the Army only
The guys at DARPA have developed a neat camera for ground surveillance of the battlefield: The ARGUS-IS (Autonomous Realtime Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance – Imaging System). This is a digital camera that can be strapped under a helicopter at a 15,000 feet altitude and provides an amazing view. Actually, not all the data (1.8 giga-pixels by…
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The amazing show of Nature
I can’t stop being amazed by the beauty of Nature. Planet Earth presents such an unbelievable diversity of shows, such a superb collection of small and large moments of pure beauty. Here are some I would like to share with you. did you know that beaches may really have all possible colours that your mind…