Category: Photo
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Graffiti, it’s a… fun… crime!
Thanks to Neatorama
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Fabrice Hénon, photographer
Fabrice is an amateur photographer I have been wanting to present to you for months already. You should visit his gallery (please, take not that it is “not safe for work” and may be classified as slightly erotic).
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All (known) bodies in the Solar system larger than 200 miles in diameter
Alan Taylor created a nice representation of the largest bodies of the Solar System (it takes into account the new classification used since last Summer). A really good job of Photoshopping many images together in order to produce what could easily become a landscape poster if somebody decided to print it.
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Monster DSLR comparison guide
Reviewed cameras Canon 30D, 5D, Digital Rebel XT (350D), Digital Rebel XTi (400D), 1D Mark III , 1Ds Mark II Nikon D200, D2Hs, D2Xs, D40, D40x, D80 Fuji FinePix S5 Pro Olympus Evolt E-510, E-500, E-410, E-330 Pentax *ist D, K100D, K110D, K10D Samsung GX-1L, GX-1S, GX-10 Sigma SD-14 Sony Alpha DSLR-A100 This is not…
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Io is still the prefered destination for volcano watchers
Io, a Jupiter satellite, has long been the only place -out of good old Earth- where presently active volcanoes could be observed presently. It fascinated me even when the satellite was joined by other bodies in the Solar system. Today NASA confirms us that Io is still the best place where you should go and…
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Life Magazine dies on paper – reborn online
This is certainly neither the first nor the last paper magazine lost, Life Magazine was a major landmark in the landscape. At the center of its fame, was the excellent quality of its photographs. Time announced that they would publish online the 10 million images of Life Magazine (no date yet). It should be a…
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Shocking news: Cheetah attacks BBC reporter
Simon King, BBC presenter of Big Cat Diary, was recently attacked by a cheetah. It is a very unusual behaviour for an animal who tends to be easily afraid by large animals like a human. Read it all on BBC (video here). I am not unhappy that it did not happen to me last time…
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Prints fade resistance test
PixInfo.com, The hungarian web site prefered by photographers of the world, juts published a new comparison article. This time, they wanted to check how digital prints fade after one year of exposition to sun light. They stopped at 11 months (shame on them!) but the results are speaking in impressive words. The English article (You…
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The boars were bisons
Two Swiss hunters recently killed two bisons in Bealrus. Aged 57 and 63, they were arrested because the bison is an endangered species and is protected in Belarus (as in many other locations). Their excuse: “Sorry Judge. We thought they were boars…” Now, it seems that being dead drunk is becoming a fairly good excuse…