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Searching Photos by Drawing a Picture

OK, so maybe you’ve got a few hundred, or thousand, photos that you’ve taken, but how do you search them ? You could try and tag them for everything (if you’ve got the time) but wouldn’t it be nice if you could just draw a picture and search for that ?
Well the Digikam [...]

The War on Photography

Bruce Schneier has a great blog article on “The War on Photography” that is causing problems for photographers in formerly free countries around the world. If you are into photography (and/or freedom) it’s well worth a read. One part I will reproduce here is a paragraph with some useful links for us photographers [...]

Donna’s first YouTube video - From Autism to Artism

Last night Donna and I managed to get her first YouTube video online called “From Autism to Artism“, based around her photos from childhood, her paintings and the song “Beautiful Behavioural Mutations” from her Mutation album (and no, I can’t keep up with her creativity!).

Canberra SuperCell Thunderstorm Photo Slideshow

So the folks at The RiotACT have a slide show of photos from the Canberra Thunderstorm up at YouTube (embedded below).

Below is a picture linked from their site of water running through a light fitting at the Canberra Center.

News stories on Google News.
(Via Kristy on Planet Linux Australia)

The Storker Project

Here’s a nice bit of installation art of a slightly subversive nature, Mark Jenkins tape sculptures “The Storker Project“.

A variation is his Storker History.

Tesla Down Under

Wow

Gallery Upgraded to 2.1

That was pretty painless, I’ve upgraded Gallery to 2.1.1a and the WordPress integration WPG2 package to 2.0 and now my photo gallery is working again!
But PLOA still doesn’t love me..

OpenRAW - Fighting to Preserve Digital Photographs

I’ve been using my Nikon D-100 for a while and occasionally I use RAW mode when I’m taking photos of things like Donna’s paintings which will have prints made of them for sale because they’re lossless and retain much more information from the CCD than other image formats. The rest of the time I [...]

Wonderful Photography

Joseph Holmes - Natural Light Photography

Category: Personal site

Topic: Photography

Overall rating: 4 out of 5
Content rating: 4 out of 5

There are some simply stunning images here - Joseph Holmes - Natural Light Photography - an amazing collection spanning over 2 decades. Here’s what’s on his front page as I write..

Hills, San Benito County, California, 1986

Via Alec Muffett.

Tags: photography

Strange Cat Photo

The thing that gets the highest hit count on this website is not any of the blog entries, none of the photo galleries nor even the URLs that those damn accursed referrer spammers try to go to, but this photo:

Unfortunately I can’t find any attribution for it - the best I’ve got is that it [...]

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