Category: Photo
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Poor man’s fish eye lens
If you are not really after image quality, but would like to have original images (more or less this is the profile of the Lens Baby crowd), you can build your own ultra-wide-angle (fish eye) lens out of a door peephole and a cheap lens cap. The result is as bad as can be expected,…
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Hero in the Sun – behaviour
A few weeks ago, in October 2007, I was in Brazil shooting wild life images. A lot of these photos are showing birds and their beaviour. Interestingly, when back in France, I found a photo and an article in ScienceBlogs Select where GrrlScientist was surprised by a behaviour from a Great Blue Hero I had…
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Shock photos from planet Mars
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…
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Golden Tegu – South American lizard seen in Brazil
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Despite its name, this large lizard can be found in white, yellow or green colours. This one was nearly perfectly black and white.
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Leopard as seen by the photographer
All you readers that mix love for Apple and love for photography will be delighted to know that there is a good article by Henrik Paul about the use of the newest Apple MacOS 10.5 Operating System (codenamed Leopard) by the digital photographer.
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Southern Lapwing
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it This bird is also known in South Brazil, where it is very common, as Quero Quero because of its cry (in French Vanneau téro).
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All images from the Moon
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.
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Thanatorama – Internet documentary about your death
You’re dead and you want to know what is happenning. Thanatorama will give you a fairly detailled explanation.
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Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them Superb small bird whose attitude is a gift for the bird photographer. Fork-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus savana, Tyran des savanes). Brazil 2007.