Technology opinions and digital photography
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Happy birthday Hubble!
The Hubble space telescope just went through its 17th birthday. Unfortunately, its future seems to be pretty much compromised since the Moon and Mars ambitions of the President of the United States of America forced NASA to reduce drastically the number of space shuttle missions: There will probably never be any other repair mission to…
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Dumb hunters kill one out of seven last females of Amur Leopards
The WWF announced that hunters in Eastern Russia recently killed one female of the critically endangered species of Amur Leopard. The animal was shot and them beaten to death with one blunt object apparently. She was one of the last seven (7) female animals still living of that species. The end is approaching fast for…
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Generators for fully personnalized seals, signs and badges
Ultra-specialized, the web sites below will allow you to build or create easily enormously personnalized images: Clapper board: As if you were clapping for your own motion picture Cigarette pack Warning label 100% tailor-made Official-looking seals
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South Africa: Big birds
South Africa is the country of the big five. But, they also have pretty big birds. Some of them are here. Various vultures (lappet-faced vulture, white-backed vulture, hooded vulture) Lappet-faced Vultures Fishing eagle(Click on the thumbnails to see the larger image) If you can help me identify them precisely, I’d appreciate your help in the…
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LightZone, a Linux kind of shareware
Lightzone is a RAW manipulation tool (“Your personal digital darkroom“) that some people like a lot for its specific set of qualities (clean neat interface, support for a lot of RAW file formats, ability to handle batch jobs, end-to-end color management) despite its hefty price tag ($150 for the Basic version and $250 for the…
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Thelonious Monk on video
While looking around in a search engine, you may find a few nice things. Today, I stopped by the quite large list of videos listed on Google search engine for the keywords “Thelonious Monk”. The guy was one of the most inventive jazz players. The first time I heard him, I was nearly rocked off…
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Heat and photographic equipment
Electronics and optics of our photo (or video) equipment are relatively sensitive to temperature. This leads us to as the question about its protection against heat. There are plenty of rumours and a lot of bad ideas about the best method to protect your photo camera against heat during a photo safari. Example of a…
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Internet forums: The whole story in video
OK! the video does not actually explains, but it translates. For those of you who know Internet forums (of all forms), it’s easy to recognize the local habits. Caution: Not safe for work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge2FHDf_L78This is all best understood when you pull it into real life.
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South Africa: I’m back
As announced earlier here, I went to South Africa for a photo safari. Now, I’m back and I am currently rumaging through the 1500 images I brought back (don’t worry; most of them are just crap that I will not inflict on you). But some will be appearing on the site in the coming days.…
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