Category: Photo
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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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Electron Microscopy and Music
Vinyl records are a thing of the past, mostly. But it’s still very nice to see how they look when you zoom in with an Electron Microscope. Reckon has a gallery of images that show the finely engraved grooves of a vinyl record. It also shows this video of how a vinyl record was made.…
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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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Find your free wallpapers with Google
If you’re like most people, you’d like to have pretty wallpaper on your desktop background. You can always go to wallpaper web sites but most of them are choke-full of ads and they always provide the same usual set. How about getting new ones? Use Google. Now, Google is able to search images by size.…
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The day of all beards
Beards, they are amazing, full of surprises, flowering with novelty. Do you want some evidence? You can join the competition for the beard holding the largest number of wooden toothpicks: If you feel a pinch, don’t accuse the beard! In order to stay on the competition field, there was this beard contest in Alaska in…
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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…