Photos of Interest
j7uy5 | April 13, 2009his is a photo of a mask from an ancient Peruvian tomb. The mask
is about 1,500 years of., made of copper and seashells, among other
items.
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It is one of the front-page (web page, that is) photos at National
Geographic. The caption follows:
April 10, 2009--Found in a treasure-filled tomb of the
Moche culture in Peru, this 1,500-year-old gilded-copper-and-seashell
funerary mask was one of two that shielded the face of the so-called
Lord of Ucupe…
j7uy5 | January 24, 2009This photo is from Wikimedia; it shows a Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) in the Jigokudani Monkey Park in Nagano Prefecture,Japan. The photo is in the public domain.
The Park features natural hot springs.
There are more photos here and here. There is a live webcam here.
j7uy5 | January 23, 2009This is precious. It is a screen shot from The Economist, from an article (The frat boy ships out) on the departure of George W. Bush.
I recall that The Economist ended up endorsing Kerry, saying something
like it was a tough call between two deeply flawed candidates.
Now, not so tough.
It turned out to be the third-most "commented" article, gathering 338 comments, and being recommended by 282 readers.
j7uy5 | January 11, 2009
Xinhua has helpfully posted the top 10 astronomy photos of the year (2008), according to National Geographic.
j7uy5 | December 29, 2008This photo is one of Yahoo's most emailed.
(AP Photo/Detroit Zoo,Mark M. Gaskill)
j7uy5 | December 9, 2008This is a photo of the controls in the cabin of the Mallard, a steam
locomotive built in 1938. The Mallard was capable of
traveling 202.7kph (126 mph), a
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A14609333">record-high
speed at the time..
The picture is from a series by
href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/nov08/6928">David Mindell,
posted at IEEE Spectrum Online. Below is a photo of the
Mallard, photographer unknown, from the Artehouse at trains.com.
One of the stations served by the Mallard was Paddington Station
(London), which
opened in 1854 (
href="http://www.designmuseum.org/…
j7uy5 | November 24, 2008
It is not obvious what
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sign is intended to depict, or why. It almost has
to be a photoshop job (?).
j7uy5 | November 18, 2008
This is a sample from Euphoria Magazine's
href="http://www.euphoria-magazine.com/nature/37-nature/287-nature-best-photography-of-2007">nature
photography roundup for 2007. I chose the most
whimsical one; the others are more serious, but equally good.
j7uy5 | November 17, 2008The Cassini orbiter shows us what is happening in the final frontier:
This is an aurora on Saturn. It's false-color, obviously. The
technique is explained on the
href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia11396.html">NASA
site:
This image of the northern polar region of Saturn
shows both the aurora and underlying atmosphere, seen at two different
wavelengths of infrared light as captured by NASA’s Cassini
spacecraft.
Energetic particles, crashing into the upper atmosphere cause the
aurora, shown in blue, to glow brightly at 4 microns (six times the
wavelength…
j7uy5 | September 22, 2008This is a nice photo, with a Creative Commons license. It's a
female Anna's
Hummingbird, Calypte anna.
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j7uy5 | September 12, 2008Here is a photo from the space station, showing some really big
thunderheads:
It is an inset from a high-resolution photo of Ike, courtesy of NASA:
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The photo posted on the NASA site is 2098x3072 pixels. Click (twice)
on the image to get the full effect. More
href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/hurr_ike091008.html">here.
j7uy5 | August 6, 2008August 6 is the anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon in
war.
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This is a work of the US Government, and is not subject to copyright.
j7uy5 | July 16, 2008
This is a photo from a collection of images that were modified using
href="http://www.gimp.org/">GIMP - The GNU
Image Manipulation Program.
There is a small collection of such photos at
href="http://www.junauza.com/2008/07/25-best-gimped-images.html">Tech
Source From Bohol. This
href="http://209.234.77.62/gallery/kerry_rifle_large.html">particular
image is at a
href="http://209.234.77.62/stovepipe.html">less refined site,
that Tech Source linked to.
I made up the name. The original caption on the photo is "Innocence."
j7uy5 | July 6, 2008
We decided to let one artichoke blossom, just to see what it looks
like. It turns out that it looks sort of like a thistle.
That's because it is a kind of thistle.
I hadn't known that. The thistle is the national
flower of Scotland.
j7uy5 | June 29, 2008
This is a photo of two White Storks, Ciconia ciconia, nesting atop a primary school chimney near the south coast of Portugal. The photo is by Valter Jacinto, and has a Creative Commons license. Link.
The White Stork is the national bird of Poland.
In the USA, we would never allow storks to nest at a primary school. It would offend the fundamentalists.
j7uy5 | May 25, 2008
I am not sure that it would make sense to grow artichokes, if the
garden were serving to supply food in a crisis. But we are not having a crisis yet, so we can have fun.
Artichokes are good, but the amount of food you get, per unit
of garden, is not great.
The artichoke was sort of an impulse buy. I thought it was an
attractive plant. Perhaps there will be a trend to make
gardens both attractive and edible.
This photo was first converted to "black and white" (actually
grayscale) because it seemed that it might look good that way.
Then I gave it a sepia tone, but did not really like…
j7uy5 | April 6, 2008A new world record has been set:
The previous record for hanging spoons on a human face was 15.
Joe Allison "smashed" the record
with 16. He's only 16 years old. He thinks that
when his forehead is a little bigger, he'll be able to do 17.
(
href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/05/content_7923147.htm">link)
j7uy5 | March 16, 2008This is a nice bit of Scandinavian design.
But take another look. Notice the ST segment?
HT:
href="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/15/heartbeat-bookshelf/">Neatorama.
j7uy5 | February 28, 2008I noticed this photo on Flickr...
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A smile is always worth something.
j7uy5 | January 28, 2008There are no cash rewards, and no instant fame. But I have
looked at a great many "best photo" series, and this is the most
enjoyable. Why? Because every single one of the
photos is in the public domain.
It's the
href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bild_des_Jahres/2007">Wikipedia
Commons Picture of the Year series. The page is in
German. My German is über-rusty, but it scarcely
matters.
This one is a photo from
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antelope_Canyon" rel="tag">Antelope
Canyon.