Check out these photo contest images:
Dorking ToastMaster's Contest
Image by Julie70
Here two toastmasters, from Greenwich's Meridiam Speaker, at the contest.
DSC_8949
Image by USFWS/Southeast
Spin the Wheel and learn about different careers in conservation.
9/28/2012 Ogden, Utah
The 2012 Federal Duck Stamp Contest
photo by Garry Tucker, USFWS
Check out these hp photo images:
Feliz domingo! (Happy sunday!)
Image by introspectivo - Muito ocupado / Very busy
canucks on the ice! yeah buddy!
Image by svacher
A few nice free photo downloads images I found:
Dirt & Cement
Image by shaire productions
By Sherrie Thai of ShaireProductions. Feel free to download and use these as a background for commercial or noncommercial projects. If you decide to use them, please let me know how it goes by sending a link or an image. Enjoy!
Neon Triangles
Image by shaire productions
By Sherrie Thai of ShaireProductions. Feel free to download and use these as a background for commercial or noncommercial projects. If you decide to use them, please let me know how it goes by sending a link or an image. Enjoy!
Some cool fun with photos images:
Mr. Light is hungry
Image by gnackgnackgnack
Having fun with light painting. Mr. Light is hungry, so he checks out what's in the fridge...
See Mr Light: being hungry,working, eating, watching TV, cooking, light painting, taking pictures, doing the dishes.
Mr. Light is working
Image by gnackgnackgnack
Having fun with light painting. Mr. Light's got some work to do, so he seats at the computer...
See Mr Light: being hungry,working, eating, watching TV, cooking, light painting, taking pictures, doing the dishes.
Check out these photo show images:
Transparence Dreams
Image by fs999
Pentax K20D • Tamron SP 90mm f:2.8 Di Macro
A way to see Flickr in Black : Greasemonkey and Flickr in mostly Black...
You will see an other world!
Pink!
Image by fs999
Pentax K20D • Tamron SP 90mm f:2.8 Di Macro
A way to see Flickr in Black : Greasemonkey and Flickr in mostly Black...
You will see an other world!
Red!
Image by fs999
Pentax K20D • Tamron SP 90mm f:2.8 Di Macro
A way to see Flickr in Black : Greasemonkey and Flickr in mostly Black...
You will see an other world!
Some cool photo letters images:
Vintage LEGO Letter V
Image by Leo Reynolds
Thanks to Eva the Weaver for posting a photo of LEGO letters. It prompted me to make my first purchase on eBay to get a LEGO alphabet to photograph.
Vintage LEGO Letter U
Image by Leo Reynolds
Thanks to Eva the Weaver for posting a photo of LEGO letters. It prompted me to make my first purchase on eBay to get a LEGO alphabet to photograph.
Vintage LEGO Letter Y
Image by Leo Reynolds
Thanks to Eva the Weaver for posting a photo of LEGO letters. It prompted me to make my first purchase on eBay to get a LEGO alphabet to photograph.
Check out these online photo editor images:
Bob Gabordi, Tallahassee Democrat
Image by Village Square
Photo credit: Bob Howard
Tallahassee city commissioners and Leon County commissioners assembled for an annual town hall meeting on April 4th, 2013. Moderated by Tallahassee Democrat editor Bob Gabordi, they talked about our hometown and took questions for the audience.
The program was hosted by the Village Square, Leadership Tallahassee and the Tallahassee Democrat.
You can find audio for the program and other details online here:
wiki.tothevillagesquare.org/x/IwBXAQ
Rev. Brant Copeland
Image by Village Square
Photo credit: Bob Howard
Tallahassee city commissioners and Leon County commissioners assembled for an annual town hall meeting on April 4th, 2013. Moderated by Tallahassee Democrat editor Bob Gabordi, they talked about our hometown and took questions for the audience.
The program was hosted by the Village Square, Leadership Tallahassee and the Tallahassee Democrat.
You can find audio for the program and other details online here:
wiki.tothevillagesquare.org/x/IwBXAQ
Our Town: Local Leadership Forum 2013
Image by Village Square
Photo credit: Bob Howard
Tallahassee city commissioners and Leon County commissioners assembled for an annual town hall meeting on April 4th, 2013. Moderated by Tallahassee Democrat editor Bob Gabordi, they talked about our hometown and took questions for the audience.
The program was hosted by the Village Square, Leadership Tallahassee and the Tallahassee Democrat.
You can find audio for the program and other details online here:
wiki.tothevillagesquare.org/x/IwBXAQ
Check out these photo editor free images:
ezimba-web- Borders 3D Frame - Green
Image by krossbow
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
www.ezimba.com/index.html
I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.
Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.
A few nice photo backgrounds images I found:
Premade Background
Image by rubyblossom.
Download Original size
PNG
***Please, feel free to use my Textures, Backgrounds, Stock, etc., in your Artwork.
If you do use them, I would love it if you would please post your work in my group, Ruby's Treasures.
...Please DO NOT redistribute as your own...
Some cool photo services images:
Bus Collage
Image by pantranco_bus
Collection of bus photos which were taken year of 2005, different designs and composition are available from runnings shots, perspective, birds eye view, inside and interior, front, side and rear.
Most of the photos were shot during my travel from different places and in my favourite hangout. Photos mostly came from northern operation unfortunately Panther express was no longer in operation and was replaced by a new player the Bataan Transit. The other operator who went bankrupt was Alladin Transit. It was unfortunate that I was not able to get a single shot from the city operation in Manila or even in the Southern part.
Photo of the Week - Woodcock at Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge, RI
Image by U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region
Photo of the Week - 2/22/11
Woodcock at Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge in Charlestown, Rhode Island.
Credit: Tom Tetzner/USFWS
www.fws.gov/ninigret/
A Seabee cuts brick during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service project at a school in Ecuador
Image by Official U.S. Navy Imagery
LA TAVESIA, Ecuador (May 17, 2011) Construction Mechanic 1st Class Alan Broussard, a Seabee embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) cuts brick during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service project at a school in La Tavesia, Ecuador. Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 28 and Marines assigned to the 8th Engineer Support Battalion are renovating the school as part of Continuing Promise 2011, a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to the Caribbean, Central and South America. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alesia D. Goosic/Released) 110517-F-ET173-255
Check out these i stock photo images:
zLine
Image by tychay
NEEDS FIX: I need to fix a small break in the house.
zLine
NetService Ventures, Menlo Park, California
Nikon D70, Nikkor 12-24mm f/4G
DxO (exp, blur, distorion, ca, vignette. noise, lighting) PTMac (cylindrical, autopano-sift, enblend) Photoshop (masking, patching) nik CEP (reflector:silver) Aperture (level, crop, shadow/highlight, denoise, sharpen)
(10 exposures 1/400sec-1/250sec @ f/8-f/10). iso 200, 12mm (18mm)
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Lunch 2.0 at zVents
Best viewed larger (it's 15+ megapixels).
Here is the zLine for zLunch 2.0 after-memorial day BBQ. You can see the zvents logo on the bib worn by master chef, Ethan Stock.
The food was yummy, but I was too late to get the burger, so I opted for a sausage and some fixins in the foreground.
I actually had adequate coverage with 7 shots, but I took some extras because people were moving. Next time I’ll wear some kicking pants and they’ll know to stand still when I take a picture: “Do you think people will move around when I’m wearing THESE bad boys? Forget about it!”
I had shots with the grill closed and open and chose the open one because of the smoke rising from the eats.
Masking did a great job of handling all the breaks, except for the guy with the camo pants in the background.
A digital silver reflector fixed some of the harsh shadows.
Click for a single frame of the stitch (If you cannot view this, add me to your contacts and I’ll add you to my friends. If you are already a contact of mine then just jet me a message and I'll fix your status.)
Children Stock
Image by rubyblossom.
My 2 sisters and brother, i wasn't born at this time.
***Please, feel free to use my Textures, Backgrounds, Stock, etc., in your Artwork.
If you do use them, I would love it if you would please post your work in my group, Ruby's Treasures.
...Please DO NOT redistribute as your own...
To see my full Photo Stock Set please visit Here
***If you are interested in purchasing my new and unseen Premade Backgrounds & PNG's , please visit my new Blog here~angiesimaginations***
Some cool photo contest images:
Bursting Forth (Hipstamatic Contest Entry)
Image by DeeAshley
Just One (Hipstamatic Contest Entry)
Image by DeeAshley
Bubblez Beauty Photo Contest 2012
Image by Cherokeeh Asteria
Bubblez Design Photo Contest - "The One and Only ✿ Bubblez Beauty ✿"
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Start: 10 January 2012 to 10 February 2012
1st Winner
- Win 10,000 lindens
- Title in group for 1 year: ✿ Bubblez Beauty ✿
- Win Bubblez Design Beauty Crown
- Photo will be published in Bubblez Design blog bubblezfashion.blogspot.com and Flickr www.flickr.com/groups/bubblezdesign
Rules:
- All photo must be at least 1024 x 1024 size (when upload to SL).
- All photo must be taken at Bubblez sim
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bubblez/169/165/36
- All photo model must wear Bubblez Design outfit (no freebies or lucky board item.)
- Photoshop is allowed.
- If other people take the photo, please credit the photographer name so they can be recognised.
- You can submit maximum 2 photos per avatar under 1 submission only.
- No nudity.
In World Submission:
- Put your photo (full permission) in a notecard and submit to the box in Bubblez Design main shop.
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bubblez/169/165/36
- Rename your notecard with "Beauty - your name"
Alternatively you can submit to Flickr Submission:
- Submit your photo to www.flickr.com/groups/bubblezbeauty
- Include your SL avatar name and photograpther in your photo description.
Conditions:
- You agree that by participating, Bubblez Design will have full permission/rights on the usage of your photo including using it as Bubblez Design outfit vendor photos.
- Photographer and model will be creditted on the photo if I use it as the vendor photo.
- All decisions are final.
- No complaints or blah blah blah... will be entertained.
Winner will be announced on Bubblez Design group notice and blog bubblezfashion.blogspot.com on 14 February 2012.
Thank you
milo Bubble
Bubblez Design
Some cool picture collage images:
What's Wrong With This Picture?
Image by Grahamtastic
collage01-23-03
Picture pile
Image by FlickrDelusions
The source, left, for the ultimate effect, right, in Picasa. See also next picture.
Some cool photo services images:
Neil Armstrong Family Memorial Service (201208310010HQ)
Image by NASA HQ PHOTO
Piper Van Wagenen, one of Neil Armstrong's 10 grandchildren, speaks during a memorial service celebrating the life of her grandfather, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, at the Camargo Club in Cincinnati. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, died Saturday, Aug. 25. He was 82. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Armstrong Memorial Service (201209130011HQ)
Image by NASA HQ PHOTO
Musician Diana Krall sings ""Fly Me to the Moon" during a memorial service celebrating the life of Neil Armstrong at the Washington National Cathedral, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, died Saturday, Aug. 25. He was 82. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)
Check out these image site images:
Hathor Temple Reliefs at Dendera (V)
Image by isawnyu
AWIB-ISAW: Hathor Temple Reliefs at Dendera (V)
Painted reliefs decorating one of the inner rooms of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera. This scene depicts the goddess Nepthys protecting the mummified god Osiris. by Kyera Giannini (2009)
copyright: 2009 Kyera Giannini (used with permission)
photographed place: Tentyra (Dendera) [pleiades.stoa.org/places/786127/]
Published by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World as part of the Ancient World Image Bank (AWIB). Further information: [www.nyu.edu/isaw/awib.htm].
Hathor Temple Reliefs at Dendera (X)
Image by isawnyu
AWIB-ISAW: Hathor Temple Reliefs at Dendera (X)
Reliefs decorating the walls of one of the underground crypts at the Temple of Hathor at Dendera. by Kyera Giannini (2009)
copyright: 2009 Kyera Giannini (used with permission)
photographed place: Tentyra (Dendera) [pleiades.stoa.org/places/786127/]
Published by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World as part of the Ancient World Image Bank (AWIB). Further information: [www.nyu.edu/isaw/awib.htm].
Check out these image search images:
Aeon Flux
Image by heath_bar
As you can tell if you are look at a picture that is not a picture, it has been removed per request of the person in the picture. See her post below:
Hi Heath_bar,
I am the girl dressed up as Aeon Flux whose picture you have used without permission. I am asking that you PLEASE remove my image here. I was shocked to find that when a Google Image search is conducted using "Aeon Flux" and "comic con" or "costume", the results link to a photo of me. For the rest of my life, I will remember my attendance and dress at this convention as one of my most shameful moments.
I am a young professional, not a model or entertainer of any sort. I am certainly not someone who seeks profit through using my image and believe it or not, it was not my plan to seek major media exposure when I wore this outfit to Comic Con. I had no idea what I was getting myself into at the time. Following the convention, a popular cosplay website asked to use my image, and I respectfully declined. I did not want my image splayed across any website, no matter what type of exposure.
I hope that you appreciate my late yet legitimate wariness. I have a mild online presence and have already been subjected to cyberstalking, having my image posted on pornographic websites, and other questionable net practices as a result of my naive costuming. I trust that you will do the right thing, and respect my wishes by removing my image.
Thank you very much for your time and understanding, from one Aeon Flux fan to another.
UPDATE: It has been over 5 years from the time of the picture was taken and the subject came up at work, so I added a small version of the picture to the gray texted picture.
Top 10 Ways to Get Attention on Flickr
Image by Thomas Hawk
"What is more pleasant than the benevolent notice other people take of us, what is more agreeable than their compassionate empathy? What inspires us more than addressing ears flushed with excitement, what captivates us more than exercising our own power of fascination? What is more thrilling than an entire hall of expectant eyes, what more overwhelming than applause surging up to us? What, lastly, equals the enchantment sparked off by the delighted attention we receive from those who profoundly delight ourselves? - Attention by other people is the most irresistible of drugs. To receive it outshines receiving any other kind of income. This is why glory surpasses power and why wealth is overshadowed by prominence."
Caterina Fake, Co-founder of Flickr, 2005.
A couple of years ago I wrote a post called Top 10 Tips for Getting Attention on Flickr that proved fairly popular. A lot has changed at Flickr in the past 2 years though and how imagery is rated and ranked on the site has also changed. That said, I thought I'd write a fresher updated post on the top 10 ways, presently, to get attention on Flickr.
Back in 2006 when I wrote my original article on how to achieve popularity on Flickr my photostream had been viewed almost 400,000 times. According to a Flickr stats page that's been added since that time, the view count for my pages on Flickr now stands at 9,953,328. It should pass 10 million sometime this week. I'm averaging about 14,000 page views a day on Flickr.
Some of how one gets attention on Flickr has remained the same since 2006. Other stuff has changed.
1. Take great pictures. This was my number one way to achieve popularity on Flickr in 2006 and remains the number one way today. Despite all the other things that you might do to promote your photography, none of it will matter if your photos are not interesting. Everyone can be creative. Some are more creative than others. Sometimes your gear and photo processing matters, other times it doesn't. I've seen incredibly beautiful and creative photos taken with a toy camera. And I've seen incredibly beautiful and creative photos taken with a ,000 digital Hasselblad. I've seen people upload interesting things from a crappy iPhone camera and I've seen people upload interesting things that they spent 8 hours on Photoshop with. But, the better your photos are the more likely that you will get attention. Taking great photos is a prerequisite to everything else in this article.
This said, there are certain types of photos that tend to become more popular on Flickr than others. Provocatively posed female self portraits or photos of attractive women in interesting poses, extremely saturated photos rich with eye candy like color, cityscapes, night photography, photos depicting movement and motion, silhouettes, dramatic architecture, unique portraits, creatively arranged macros and cross processed and some film photography.
2. The order that you post your photos to Flickr counts. The number one way that your photos will likely be seen in Flickr comes from your Flickr contacts looking at their Flickr contact's photos. At present Flickr allows you to set your contacts most recent photos to their last photo, or their last 5 photos. Anything beyond 5 photos in a single batch upload will largely be buried on Flickr. If you are uploading more than 5 photos at once, make sure that you upload your best 5 photos last and what you consider your very best photo last of all. Frequently people will upload a batch of 30 photos from a concert or something with no thought as to which will be the last 5 of the 30 in order.
3. Consider places outside of Flickr to promote your photography. Do you have a blog or a photoblog? If you want more attention on Flickr you should. Flickr makes it very easy to blog your photos, you simply cut and paste the html code above your photo and you are now photoblogging with a direct link back to your photo. My blog, thomashawk.com is my number two external referrer of pageviews to my Flickrstream. Are you on FriendFeed yet? You should be. It's easy to set up and makes sure more people see your photos. Pownce (when it is working) is another place to post interesting photos.
4. Do you have your settings on Flickr configured for maximum exposure? After Flickr itself, Google drives more traffic to my Flickrstream than any other source, even my blog. Yahoo search and both Google and Yahoo image search drive traffic as well. But your photos will be blocked from appearing in search engines unless you authorize Flickr to display your images in search engines. Make sure your photostream is set to not "hide your stuff from public searches," here.
Same goes for the Flickr API. Lots of people are using the Flickr API in interesting ways. I get traffic from places like Flickrleech, Compfight, Technorati and lots of other places that use the Flickr API to extend your photos outside of Flickr. Make sure that you've authorized Flickr to allow API access to your photos here.
5. Explore. Explore still remains the number one way to get photos viewed on Flickr. Explore uses Flickr's "Magic Donkey" algorithm to each day highlight 500 of what Flickr feels are the best photos on Flickr for that day. It's a very popular section of the site despite the fact that everyone seems to constantly hate Explore and decry its mediocrity in selecting exceptional photos. Explore has changed and evolved a lot since it was first introduced at Flickr a few years back. Initially things like *when* you posted your photos mattered.
Whether or not Flickr chooses your photos for Explore is still very much a mystery. But there are some things that we do know. The more faves, comments, tags, etc. your photo gets, the more likely it is that it will appear in Explore. Explore also uses averaging in their algorithm now. This means that if your average photo gets 5 faves, then you'll need to do considerably better than average if you hope to see that photo in Explore.
Photos are also constantly dropping in and out of Explore. I've got 157 photos in Explore at present but I've had 446 that have appeared in Explore at one time or another. You can check out which and how many of your photos that have been showcased by Flickr in Explore here. Just change my Flickr ID at the link above for your own.
6. Groups. Speaking of Explore, if you really want to get a particular photo in Explore consider adding it to a group that encourages tagging, faving and comments of photos. Photo critique groups are good examples of this. Some of the photo critique groups play games where tagging and commenting on a photo are part of the game. Flickr does not distinguish between a photo that has been commented on or tagged organically vs. one that is included in some sort of photo critique game. If you want to boost the likelihood that your photo will be selected for Explore consider putting a strong photo into one of these pools. Photo critique groups on Flickr run the gamut from nice and friendly photo critique groups like TWIP's, to hostile and brutal photo critique groups like DeleteMe Uncensored (note NSFW and maybe not the best group if you are easily offended).
Whatever the case, the key to groups is participation. If you simply dump a bunch of photos blindly into random groups you will likely not get much benefit. In fact, Flickr actually penalizes photo rank if someone posts their photo to too many groups. But posting your photo to selective groups where you participate will encourage activity on your photos and photostream.
7. Tag for Exploration (especially your most popular photos). Why has this photo of mine been viewed over 27,000 times on Flickr? Well in part because it shows up on the first page search results on Flickr for the search term guitar. And why does it show up in searches for the word "guitar?" Because I've got the photo *tagged* guitar. By tagging your photos appropriately you can ensure that more people will see them in search. Think of other ways that you can tag your photos. Are all of your photos taken in San Francisco also tagged "California?" They should be. Are all of your photos tagged "self portrait" also tagged with your name? Again, they should be.
The better you keyword and tag your photos, the more likely they will show up in searches that take place on Flickr. Even if you think that your photos will never be popular enough to rank highly in search, remember that there are other ways that Flickr users can filter search. You can search just by your contacts photos on Flickr for instance. So even if you don't have the most popular sunset photo amongst millions on Flickr, you might have the most popular sunset photo amongst your contacts because you tagged it.
A note that I've seen some people on Flickr abuse tags. They will tag every photo with girl, sunset, cat, etc. Even if these things are not in their photo simply to try and trick people into getting to their photos through search. This sucks. I'm not sure what/if/how Flickr penalizes people who do this, but it's a crappy thing to do and ruins the search experience for everyone. Tag early and often, but only tag your photos with tags that truly are accurate and descriptive.
8. Geotag. One of the more interesting ways to find photos on Flickr is through exploring photos that are geotagged on a map. When I'm going to a new place that I'm not familiar with, frequently Flickr's "Explore the World Map," is one of my first destinations. But of course your photos will not show up here if they are not geotagged. The best way to geotag your photos is actually at the file level before you upload them. I use Geotagger on the Mac which allows you to use Google Earth to geotag your photos. You can also download the free software program from Microsoft Pro Photo Tools to geotag photos on a PC.
Check what Flickr considers your most popular photos and make sure that you geotag (and more descriptively tag) these photos especially -- even if you have to geotag these shots on Flickr using their tools. Geotagging has been documented by Flickr staff as increasing the Flickr "interestingness" rating of a photograph.
9. Consider creating a few "best of" sets and feature them prominently on your Flickrstream. Frequently when people first discover your photostream they don't have time to check out your entire stream. But if you make it easier for them and create a few sets that highlight some of your best work they may stick around longer. I've created two such sets myself. My 10 faves or more set and my 25 faves or more set. These sets highlight what are some of my best work according to the Flickr community and are my two most visited sets on Flickr. As my photos are faved 10 or 25 times I add the tag fav10 or fav25 to these sets and then use SmartSetr to automatically generate these sets.
Make sure also that you change your Flickr page layout from the boring default one to one that highlights your collections and sets better.
10. Tell everyone you know about your Flickrstream. Are you active on other social networks? Is a link to your Flickrstream prominently displayed on your blog? On your Facebook profile page? Be sure to include a link to your Flickrstream in every profile that you are on with other sites. Consider buying Moo cards (even though Moo.com has been lousy for me lately and won't let me buy anymore cards from them) which highlight your photostream that you can give out to people that you run across while out shooting. Tell your friends and family and your offline "real life" contacts about your Flickrstream.
Bonus tip: Reciprocation. Above everything else, perhaps the most important thing about Flickr is that it is a community and a reciprocation based community. If you think that you can just post your photos on the site and they will garner thousands of faves and views simply because, you are wrong. Even the best photos on Flickr will not get very much attention if you simply upload them to the site and never participate.
Flickr has been built to encourage reciprocation. In fact a recent study cited reciprocation as the number one key to popularity on Flickr. Every single time you fave or comment on someone else's photo you are giving them a link back to your own photostream. While you may not have the time to check out *everyone* who faves your photos, spend time each day faving and commenting on other people's photos on Flickr. By sharing with others the fact that you appreciate their photos they will return the favor. Be generous with your faves and comments. Remember, other people like the attention as much as you do.
On digg here.
Update: An interesting link to comments Flickr staff have made about the Explore algorithm here. Thanks, Ole!
(animated stereo) The Mine at Luzenac, 1900
Image by Thiophene_Guy
To see the medium (500 x 500) animated image scroll down to the first comment below; to see the large (1000 x 1000) view original size (look above in the "actions" menu).
Details and History
The Bibliothèque de Toulouse hosts a multitude of historical images by Eugène Trutat that document life in France at the close of the Belle Epoch. Many are stereoviews with no known restrictions on use. This image is derived from the image titled Usine, Luzenac.
Quick Links to Animated stereo Images in my Stream
View all Eugène Trutat images.
View all images from France.
View all 19th century images.
Copyright Advisory
The purpose here is not to duplicate the original image but to generate a downloadable animated gif to assist viewing and presentation. The original image has no known restrictions on use: www.flickr.com/photos/bibliothequedetoulouse/2577261599/ .
Technical trivia
Image manipulations and gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.
A few nice image site images I found:
São José do Desterro, São Luís
Image by Tony Gálvez
ENGLISH:
I've chosen my best photos of Maranhão trip and published them in Maranhão, images of a Brazilian paradise, a visual recollection of the state of Maranhão, from the crumbling buildings of its capital, São Luís to the mesmerizing and unique landscapes of the Lençóis Maranhenses, through the fascinating celebration of the bumba-meu-boi festival .
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ESPAÑOL:
He seleccionado mis mejores fotos del Maranhão y las he publicado en Maranhão, imágenes de un paraíso brasileño un recuerdo visual del estado de Maranhão, desde los decrépitos edificios de su capital, São Luís a los fascinantes y únicos paisajes de los Lençóis Maranhenses, pasando por la increíble celebración del festival del bumba-meu-boi.
Sunset Snowy
Image by Nick Chill Photography
A Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) patiently waits for the fish to forget about him.
View On Black
FYI: I ordered a 20x30 print of this photo from my site and wow is it nice. The colors and focus are on spot, and Mpix did a quality print job.
20090524-368
Check out these photo creator images:
B.C.A. 1911 No.s 67 to 70 on plan
Image by Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
Creator: Alexander R. Hogg for Belfast Corporation
Date: 14th October 1914
Description: B.C.A. 1911 No.s 67 to 70 on plan. Streets in photo: Hamill Street, Mill Street. Premises in photo: Vincent de Paul Social Work, Mens Home and Restaurant.
PRONI Ref: LA/7/8/HF/4/110
Copying and copyright:
Please see www.proni.gov.uk/index/research_and_records_held/copying_...
For Copy Orders, contact:
Email: proni@dcalni.gov.uk
For fees and charges see: www.proni.gov.uk/index/about_proni/are_there_any_fees_and...
B.C.A. 1911 No.s 1 to 5 and 8 on plan
Image by Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
Creator: Alexander R. Hogg for Belfast Corporation
Date: 11th February 1915
Description: B.C.A. 1911 No.s 1 to 5 and 8 on plan. Streets in photo: Great Edward Street, Chichester Street, Victoria Street. Premises in photo: Ulster Tavern.
PRONI Ref: LA/7/8/HF/4/195
Copying and copyright:
Please see www.proni.gov.uk/index/research_and_records_held/copying_...
For Copy Orders, contact:
Email: proni@dcalni.gov.uk
For fees and charges see: www.proni.gov.uk/index/about_proni/are_there_any_fees_and...
Check out these family photo images:
Image by fusion-of-horizons
interior of the Golescu family mansion at Golesti Museum
www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/en/Co...
interiorul conacului familiei Golescu de la Muzeul Golesti
Complexul Muzeal National Golesti
Muzeul Viticulturii si Pomiculturii Golesti
www.muzeulgolesti.ro/
Some cool picture framing images:
picture in a frame
Image by ilgiovaneWalter (Sobchak)
17th April 2008
when Frarokketti played in Rome
picture frame in the midst of billboard
Image by D.C.Atty
Check out these photo development images:
Monterey Road Child Development Center Halloween Parade 2011
Image by Presidio of Monterey: DLIFLC & USAG
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - Children participate in the Halloween parade at Monterey Road Child Development Center Oct. 31. The parade is an annual event in which care providers and volunteers escort the children around the center before lining up in front of the building while proud parents and grandparents take photos of the happy children.
Official Presidio of Monterey Web site
Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook
PHOTO by Tonya K. Townsell, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
Monterey Road Child Development Center Halloween Parade 2011
Image by Presidio of Monterey: DLIFLC & USAG
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - Children participate in the Halloween parade at Monterey Road Child Development Center Oct. 31. The parade is an annual event in which care providers and volunteers escort the children around the center before lining up in front of the building while proud parents and grandparents take photos of the happy children.
Official Presidio of Monterey Web site
Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook
PHOTO by Tonya K. Townsell, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
Monterey Road Child Development Center Halloween Parade 2011
Image by Presidio of Monterey: DLIFLC & USAG
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - Children participate in the Halloween parade at Monterey Road Child Development Center Oct. 31. The parade is an annual event in which care providers and volunteers escort the children around the center before lining up in front of the building while proud parents and grandparents take photos of the happy children.
Official Presidio of Monterey Web site
Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook
PHOTO by Tonya K. Townsell, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
A few nice photo cards images I found:
Moo Minicards - Yay!
Image by Ran Yaniv Hartstein
Small business cards with pictures from my Flickr.
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Get your own
Some cool photo sizes images:
#62. astrodeep200407 a g HUDF heic0611aa
Image by rmforall@gmail.com
#62. astrodeep200407 a g HUDF heic0611aa
Click on All Sizes button and select Original to see highest resolution image.
In the full HUDF view, saturating the colors reveals huge regions with very different overall colors -- this deserves research.
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The boxes are 3 arcsec wide, 100x100 pixels, with 0.03 arc-second per pixel. They are in order of apparent brightness, from 1 to 28.
The half-light galaxy diameters are about 1.6 kpc = 5220 Ly, as 1 kpc = 1000 parsecs = 3262 Ly. Our Milky Way galaxy is about 100,000 Ly wide.
notable bright blue tiny sources on darker 3D fractal web in HUDF VLT ESO 28 images from 506 galaxies, z about 6 , RJ Bouwens, GD Illingworth, JP Blakeslee, M Franx 2008.02.04 draft 36 page: Rich Murray 2008.08.17
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Double click on photo and click on All Sizes button and select Original to see highest resolution image, as well as some smaller images.
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The boxes are 3 arcsec wide, 100x100 pixels, with 0.03 arc-second per pixel. They are in order of apparent brightness, from 1 to 28.
The HUDF is made of 0.03 arc-second pixels, 6200X6200, 186X186 arc-seconds, 3.1X3.1 arc-minutes, about a tenth of the width of the Moon or Sun, 0.5X0.5 degrees.
'In this image, blue and green correspond to colors that can be seen by the human eye, such as hot, young, blue stars and the glow of Sun-like stars in the disks of galaxies.
Red represents near-infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye, such as the red glow of dust-enshrouded galaxies.'
Four wavelength filters collected the B435, V606, i775, z850 wavelength images for the observed blue, violet, near infrared, infrared images -- combined in this vast image with tiny 0.03 arc-second pixels.
'Galaxy sizes: Typical i-dropouts at z850,AB about 27 (from the HUDF-Ps and HUDF) have PSF-corrected half-light radii of about 0.8 kpc [2610 Ly] or about 0.14 arc-second (Figure 6: §3.7). [ So diameter is 1.6 kpc = 5220 Ly, as 1 kpc = 1000 parsecs = 3262 Ly. Our Milky Way galaxy is about 100,000 Ly wide. ]'
'The reheating, driven by the galaxies ultraviolet starlight, transformed the gas between galaxies from a cold, dark hydrogen soup to a hot, transparent plasma over only a few hundred million years.
With Hubble's help, astronomers are now beginning to see the kinds of galaxies that brought about the reheating.'
'The first 900 million years (Myr) to redshift z about 6 (the first seven per cent of the age of the Universe) remains largely unexplored for the formation of galaxies.'
'It is not at all clear how galaxies built up from the first stars when the Universe was about 300Myr old (z about 12-15) to z about 6, just 600Myr later.'
'The nearest galaxies -- the larger, brighter, well-defined spirals and ellipticals -- thrived about 1 billion years ago, when the cosmos was 13 billion years old.'
'The image required 800 exposures taken over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth. The total amount of exposure time was 11.3 days, taken between Sept. 24, 2003 and Jan. 16, 2004.'
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Probing the distant Universe for young galaxies
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows 28 of the brightest of 506 young galaxies that existed when the universe was less than 1 billion years old.
The galaxies were uncovered in a study of two of the most distant surveys of the cosmos, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), completed in 2004, and the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), made in 2003.
Just a few years ago, astronomers had not spotted any galaxies that existed significantly less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
The galaxies spied in the HUDF and GOODS surveys are blue galaxies brimming with star birth.
The large image at left shows the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, taken by the Hubble telescope.
The numbers next to the small blue boxes correspond to close-up views of 28 of the newly found galaxies at right. [ arranged by apparent brightness from 1 to 28 ]
The galaxies in the postage-stamp size images appear red because of their tremendous distance from Earth. The blue light from their young stars took nearly 13 billion years to arrive at Earth. During the journey, the blue light was shifted to red light due to the expansion of space.
Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Bouwens and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
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News Release -- heic0611: Hubble finds hundreds of young galaxies in the early Universe
21-Sep-2006: Astronomers analyzing two of the deepest views of the cosmos made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered a gold mine of galaxies, more than 500 that existed less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
These galaxies thrived when the cosmos was less than 7 percent of its present age of 13.7 billion years.
This sample represents the most comprehensive compilation of galaxies in the early Universe, researchers said.
The discovery is scientifically invaluable for understanding the origin of galaxies, considering that just a decade ago early galaxy formation was largely uncharted territory.
Astronomers had not seen even one galaxy that existed when the Universe was a billion years old, so finding 500 in a Hubble survey is a significant leap forward for cosmologists.
The galaxies unveiled by Hubble are smaller than today's giant galaxies and very bluish in colour, indicating they are ablaze with star birth.
The images appear red because of the galaxies' tremendous distance from Earth.
The blue light from their young stars took nearly 13 billion years to arrive at Earth.
During the journey, the blue light was shifted to red light due to the expansion of space.
'Finding so many of these dwarf galaxies, but so few bright ones, is evidence for galaxies building up from small pieces -- merging together as predicted by the hierarchical theory of galaxy formation,' said astronomer Rychard Bouwens of the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA who led the Hubble study.
Bouwens and his team spied these galaxies in an analysis of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), completed in 2004, and the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), made in 2003.
The results were presented on August 17 at the 2006 General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, and will be published in the November 20 issue of the Astrophysical Journal.
The findings also show that these dwarf galaxies were producing stars at a furious rate, about ten times faster than is happening now in nearby galaxies.
Astronomers have long debated whether the hottest stars in early star-forming galaxies, such as those in this study, may have provided enough radiation to reheat the cold hydrogen gas that existed between galaxies in the early Universe.
The gas had been cooling since the Big Bang.
'Seeing all of these starburst galaxies provides evidence that there were enough galaxies 1 billion years after the Big Bang to finish reheating the Universe,' explained team member Garth Illingworth of the University of California, Santa Cruz. 'It highlights a period of fundamental change in the Universe, and we are seeing the galaxy population that brought about that change.'
In terms of human lifetimes, cosmic events happen very slowly.
The evolution of galaxies and stars, for example, occurs over billions of years.
Astronomers, therefore, rarely witness dramatic, relatively brief transitions that changed the Universe.
One such event was the Universe is 'reheating'.
The reheating, driven by the galaxies ultraviolet starlight, transformed the gas between galaxies from a cold, dark hydrogen soup to a hot, transparent plasma over only a few hundred million years.
With Hubble's help, astronomers are now beginning to see the kinds of galaxies that brought about the reheating.
Just a few years ago, astronomers did not have the technology to hunt for faraway galaxies in large numbers.
The installation of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope in 2002 allowed astronomers to probe some of the deepest recesses of our Universe.
Astronomers used the ACS to observe distant galaxies in the HUDF and GOODS public surveys.
Another major step in the exploration of the Universe's earliest years will occur if Hubble undergoes its next upgrade with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 3 (WFC3).
The WFC3's infrared sensitivity will allow it to detect galaxies that are so far away their starlight has been stretched to infrared wavelengths by the expanding Universe.
The galaxies uncovered so far promise that many more galaxies at even greater distances are awaiting discovery by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scheduled to launch in 2013.
Co-author Marijn Franx, member of the ESA JWST NIRSPEC science team, explains: 'The JWST will be able to see even further back into the early Universe, and glimpse the first objects that formed.
ESA's NIRSPEC instrument, can even measure the exact distances of these objects.'
Notes for editors:
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
The members of the science team are Rychard Bouwens and Garth Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz),
John Blakeslee (Washington State University),
and Marijn Franx (Leiden University).
NASA, ESA, R. Bouwens and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
NASA's press release
Contacts:
Marijn Franx
Leiden Observatory, Leiden, the Netherlands
Tel: +31-71-5275870
E-mail: franx@strw.leidenuniv;
Rychard Bouwens
University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA
Tel: +1-831-459-5276
E-mail: bouwens@ucolick.org;
Garth Illingworth
University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA
Tel: +1-831-459-2843
E-mail: gdi@ucolick.org;
John Blakeslee
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA
Tel: +1-509-335-2414
E-mail: jblakes@wsu.edu;
Lars Lindberg Christensen
Hubble/ESA, Garching, Germany
Tel: +49-89-3200-6306
Cellular: +49-173-3872-621
E-mail: lars@eso.org;
Donna Weaver
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md., USA
Tel: +1-410-338-4493
E-mail: dweaver@stsci.edu;
Copyright-free material (more info).
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Hubble Ultra Deep Field Image Reveals Galaxies GaloreSTScI-PRC2004-07a
Galaxies, galaxies everywhere -- as far as NASA's Hubble Space Telescope can see. This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is the deepest visible-light image of the cosmos. Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, this galaxy-studded view represents a 'deep' core sample of the universe, cutting across billions of light-years.
The snapshot includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colors.
The smallest, reddest galaxies, about 100, may be among the most distant known, existing when the universe was just 800 million years old.
The nearest galaxies -- the larger, brighter, well-defined spirals and ellipticals -- thrived about 1 billion years ago, when the cosmos was 13 billion years old.
In vibrant contrast to the rich harvest of classic spiral and elliptical galaxies, there is a zoo of oddball galaxies littering the field.
Some look like toothpicks; others like links on a bracelet.
A few appear to be interacting.
These oddball galaxies chronicle a period when the universe was younger and more chaotic.
Order and structure were just beginning to emerge.
The Ultra Deep Field observations, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys, represent a narrow, deep view of the cosmos.
Peering into the Ultra Deep Field is like looking through an eight-foot-long soda straw.
In ground-based photographs, the patch of sky in which the galaxies reside (just one-tenth the diameter of the full Moon) is largely empty.
Located in the constellation Fornax, the region is so empty that only a handful of stars within the Milky Way galaxy can be seen in the image.
In this image, blue and green correspond to colors that can be seen by the human eye, such as hot, young, blue stars and the glow of Sun-like stars in the disks of galaxies.
Red represents near-infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye, such as the red glow of dust-enshrouded galaxies.
The image required 800 exposures taken over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth. The total amount of exposure time was 11.3 days, taken between Sept. 24, 2003 and Jan. 16, 2004.
Object Names: Hubble Ultra Deep Field, HUDF
Image Type: Astronomical
Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the HUDF Team
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RJB, GDI give 40 slide Power Point Import presentation in Venice 2006.03.31
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Preprint typeset using LATEX style emulateapj v. 04/21/05
Galaxies at z about 6: the UV luminosity function and luminosity density from 506 HUDF, HUDF-PS, and GOODS i-dropouts
Rychard J. Bouwens 3, bouwens@ucolick.org;
Garth D. Illingworth 3, www.ucolick.org/~gdi/ gillingw@ucsc.edu;
John P. Blakeslee 4, jblakes@wsu.edu;
Marijn Franx 5 franx@strw.leidenuniv.nl;
1 Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which is operated by the Association of Universities for
Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555. These observations are associated with programs #9803.
2 Observations have been carried out using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Paranal
Observatory under program ID: LP168.A-0485.
3 Astronomy Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
4 Department of Physics & Astronomy, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2814 and
5 Leiden Observatory, Postbus 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands.
Draft version February 4, 2008
ABSTRACT [ z = redshift due to increasing distance and time from us here and now, where z = 0 ]
We have detected 506 i-dropouts (z about 6 -- galaxies) in deep, wide-area HST ACS fields: HUDF, enhanced GOODS, and HUDF-Parallel ACS fields (HUDF-Ps).
The contamination levels are under 8% (i.e., over 92% are at z about 6).
With these samples, we present the most comprehensive, quantitative analyses of z about 6 -- galaxies yet and provide optimal measures of the UV luminosity function (LF) and luminosity density at z about 6, and their evolution to z about 3.
We redetermine the size and color evolution from z about 6 to z about 3.
Field-to-field variations (cosmic variance), completeness, flux, and contamination corrections are modeled systematically and quantitatively.
After corrections, we derive a rest-frame continuum UV (about 1350 A) LF at z about 6 that extends to M1350,AB about −17.5 (0.04L*, z=3).
There is strong evidence for evolution of the LF between z about 6 and z about 3, most likely through a brightening (0.6+-0.2 mag) of M* (at 99.7% confidence) though the degree depends upon the faint-end slope.
As expected from hierarchical models, the most luminous galaxies are deficient at z about 6.
Density evolution (phi*) is ruled out at over 99.99% confidence.
Despite large changes in the LF, the luminosity density at z about 6 is similar (0.82 ± 0.21x) to that at z about 3.
Changes in the mean UV color of galaxies from z about 6 to z about 3 suggest an evolution in dust content, indicating the true evolution is substantially larger: at z about 6 the star formation rate density is just about 30% of the z about 3 value.
Our UV luminosity function is consistent with z about 6 galaxies providing the necessary UV flux to reionize the universe.
Subject headings: galaxies: evolution -- galaxies: high-redshift
2.1. ACS HUDF
The B435V606i775z850 [colors blue, violet, near infrared, infrared] images used for this analysis are the v1.0 reductions of the HUDF (Beckwith et al. 2006), binned on a 0.03′′ pixel scale.
3.2. i-dropouts in the HUDF
Applying the above selection criteria to the HUDF results in a sample of 122 i-dropouts.
Objects range in magnitude from z850,AB = 25.0 to 29.4 (the 8 d limit).
At z about 6, this corresponds to 0.04 - 2.2 times the characteristic rest-frame UV luminosity at z about 3 (Steidel et al. 1999).... V606i775z850 color cutouts are provided in Figure 1 for the brightest 28 i-dropouts from the HUDF.
Fig. 1. -- Postage stamps (V606i775z850 color images) of the brightest 28 i775-dropouts from the HUDF [ from the 122 galaxies found ].
Objects are ordered in terms of their z850-band magnitude. [infrared]
The z850-band magnitudes and object IDs are shown above and below each object, respectively.
Each postage stamp is 3.0′′ in size.
These high S/N images show definitive evidence for assymetries, mergers, and other interactions -- similar to that seen at lower redshifts (z about 2 - 5).
Galaxy sizes: Typical i-dropouts at z850,AB about 27 (from the HUDF-Ps and HUDF) have PSF-corrected half-light radii of about 0.8 kpc [2610 Ly] or about 0.14 arc-second (Figure 6: §3.7). [ So diameter is 1.6 kpc = 5220 Ly, as 1 kpc = 1000 parsecs = 3262 Ly. Our Milky Way galaxy is about 100,000 Ly wide. ]
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LETTERS
Vol 443, 14 September 2006 doi:10.1038/nature05156
Rapid evolution of the most luminous galaxies during the first 900 million years
Rychard J. Bouwens, Garth D. Illingworth
The first 900 million years (Myr) to redshift z about 6 (the first seven per cent of the age of the Universe) remains largely unexplored for the formation of galaxies.
Large samples of galaxies have been found at z about 6 (refs 1-4) but detections at earlier times are uncertain and unreliable.
It is not at all clear how galaxies built up from the first stars when the Universe was about 300Myr old (z about 12-15) to z about 6, just 600Myr later.
Here we report the results of a search for galaxies at z about 7-8, about 700Myr after the Big Bang, using the deepest near-infrared and optical images ever taken.
Under conservative selection criteria we find only one candidate galaxy at z about 7-8, where ten would be expected if there were no evolution in the galaxy population between z about 7-8 and z about 6.
Using less conservative criteria, there are four candidates, where 17 would be expected with no evolution.
This demonstrates that very luminous galaxies are quite rare 700Myr after the Big Bang.
The simplest explanation is that the Universe is just too young to have built up many luminous galaxies at z about 7-8 by the hierarchical merging of small galaxies.
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bright blue 1-4 pixel sources on darker 3D fractal web in IR and visible light HUDF images -- might be the clusters of earliest hypernovae in the Naoki Yoshida and Lars Hernquist simulation: Rich Murray 2008.07.31
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