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25 December 2006
Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:07:52 GMTChased by the Light
Jim Brandenburg
Book of photos taken one-a-day for a 90 day period from autumn to the winter solstice. The images themselves are online, but for want of things to put on my christmas list I went for the book. It was worth it.
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05 May 2006
Fri, 05 May 2006 09:53:01 GMT Visible Earth: The Blue Marblevia Kjell Olsen978 days agoAmazing images of earth from NASA.
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14 March 2006
Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:53:00 GMT Seeing the big picturevia Kjell Olsen1030 days agoIn 1998, 67bn images were made worldwide. We know that because 3bn rolls of film were sold. It is impossible to be accurate, but with a world population of digital cameras exceeding a third of a billion on top of millions of film-using cameras still in use, it is likely that more pictures are taken every year than in the previous 160 years of photography put together. In addition to the other pollutions we have unleashed on ourselves, we may well have to thank digital photography for giving us image pollution.
As a kid I could never use my Dad’s SLR because if I did shoot, that was minus one on my filmstrip. I really loved the idea of photography, but was trigger shy.
My family got it’s first digicam five years ago around christmas (I think), and I used it to take photos on our trip to Scandinavia my the summer before my freshman year of HS. Since then I’ve amassed thousands of jpegs in iPhoto (even having lost my library in a HD crash last june).
At dinner the other day, some older family members were balking at us kids and our thousands of photos. I want to empathize with them, but just can’t. Yeah right, image pollution. The digital tech that lets you shoot so much also gives you better ways of pulling the wheat from the chaff.
But those numbers are indeed impressive.
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01 March 2006
Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:12:25 GMTEgo Boost
So I’m starting to get hooked on flickr. I’ve uploaded my pictures there for awhile, but lately I’ve been browsing through the site, and more recently paying attention to the the activity within my photo stream.
I was pretty excited to see that Buck Forester left a comment on one of my photos. Just go look through a few of Forester’s photos. You’ll be impressed.
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10 February 2006
Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:43:56 GMTPolar Bear
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19 December 2005
Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:29:23 GMT Glamor photo retouchingvia Kjell Olsen1116 days agoHow fake are those pinups?
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16 December 2005
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:24:20 GMT Jim Brandenburg's Chased By The Light Imagesvia Kjell Olsen1118 days agoAmazing photos shot in the north of minnesota, one each day for 90 days.
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15 December 2005
Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:14:10 GMT Timevia Kjell Olsen1119 days ago29 years worth of family headshots.
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11 December 2005
Sun, 11 Dec 2005 01:26:04 GMT Photo Contest - National Wildlife Magazinevia Kjell Olsen1124 days agoMore great nature shots.
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09 November 2005
Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:03:00 GMT Arctic Refuge Seriesvia Kjell Olsen1155 days agoPhotoset of the soon to be desecrated ANWR. A great eulogy.
This is the value of this piece of wilderness
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13 October 2005
Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:28:35 GMT Incredible High-Res image of Earth from SpaceKjell Olsen1182 days agoAmazing flattened image of the globe. Taken 2004.
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07 October 2005
Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:58:00 GMT Earth Photographvia Kjell Olsen1188 days agoIt’s the only one we’ve got.
Virtually every picture showing the full Earth derives from one photograph taken in 1972. Yet hardly anybody notices this.
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07 September 2005
Wed, 07 Sep 2005 21:00:01 GMT Apple Special Event 2005 - a photoset on Flickrvia Kjell Olsen1218 days agoPhotos of Apples unveiling of the ipod nano and moto rockr. The nano is just sweet!
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17 August 2005
Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:22:00 GMTVista, Mission Mountains, MT
Vista, Mission Mountains, MT. Originally uploaded by kjell.
Now that textpattern stable is out, hopefully plugin development goes way up. There’s finally a nice xmlrpc library, so here’s a photo posted directly from flickr!
I took it hiking in Montana a few weeks ago.
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25 July 2005
Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:52:00 GMT Library of Congress - Panoramavia Kjell Olsen1262 days agoCollection of panorama’s from 1912 to 1991. Spectacular view of milling era Minneapolis.
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08 July 2005
Fri, 08 Jul 2005 09:24:44 GMT Gimp-Savvy.com - Learn the GIMP - Tutorials and Resourcesvia Kjell Olsen1279 days agoInstead of pirating photoshop on the new laptop, I decided to go with the gimp, and it kicks ass. Here’s a nice tutorial.
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05 July 2005
Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:00:11 GMT Latitudes Magazine - Travel Attitudes Magazine for Broadbandvia Kjell Olsen1282 days agoSpectacular travel photo magazine. Great story on Iceland (been there, amazing) and Biking the length of the Danube, which I’d love to do. Available in flash, page through the entire thing (I think) online.
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29 June 2005
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:04:45 GMT Widescreenvia Kjell Olsen1288 days agoImpressive collection of hi-res wallpapers.
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20 June 2005
Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:04:00 GMTLost in Norway
Per Eide
Coffe table book full of fascinating photographs of the Norwegian landscape. Panoramas galore. The book was a gift from Joachim, the norwegian AFS student, and I’d leafed through it but not fully read it until yesterday.
From the author’s website you can check his Picture Archives for a good peek at some of his work, but the book is just incredible. It’s a wide format book, and half of the pictures in it take up two pages across the fold. The photos are just spectacular.
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18 June 2005
Sat, 18 Jun 2005 08:02:41 GMT GRYNX > Laptop on the wall - WallTopvia Kjell Olsen1299 days agoHow to build a live picture frame out of an old laptop. I have an old laptop, and this would sure be a cool project for it.
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09 May 2005
Mon, 09 May 2005 12:05:00 GMT Timecatcher.com - Experience The Beautyvia Kjell Olsen1339 days agoGreat (landscape) photography site, “dedicated to the beauty this planet has to offer”.
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07 May 2005
Sat, 07 May 2005 15:20:37 GMT A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AFRICAvia Kjell Olsen1341 days agoBreathtaking set of photos from all over Africa, all taken by different photographers.
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24 March 2005
Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:15:36 GMTCamera and Lens
Ansel Adams
A concrete and terse overview of photography proccesses from the workings of your camera, to the composition of photos, to the developing of negatives and printing of photos.
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09 March 2005
Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:32:41 GMTThe Mind's Eye
Henri Cartier-Bresson
A collection of essays by Henri Cartier-Bresson, a French photographer who died just last year and pioneered the field of photography.
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06 March 2005
Sun, 06 Mar 2005 22:02:27 GMT Toronto, Canada on Flickr - Photo Sharing!via Kjell Olsen1403 days agoIncredible pano taken from 443m above toronto, and explanation. Nice.
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14 February 2005
Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:58:16 GMT Photographic: Baker's Dozen: A recipe for great travel photosvia Kjell Olsen1423 days agoOr just great photos…
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12 February 2005
Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:01:14 GMT Flickr: Technique | Faking the lomo effectKjell Olsen1426 days agoSome incredibly neat photos have come out of this technique thread. Look through the comments for a few of ‘em.
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11 February 2005
Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:41:23 GMT Flickr: Stock Repositoryvia Kjell Olsen1426 days agoFree stock photos under CC license at flickr – sweet!
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09 February 2005
Wed, 09 Feb 2005 13:23:50 GMT Squirrel! :: Trip to London, 01/2005 (kottke.org)Kjell Olsen1428 days agoI like squirrels so much – last week when it was so nice out I was going to get lots of pictures of them scurrying around in the snow – but it got cold again and now they’re up in their trees.
I saw a squirrel jump off the roof of the bell museum a day or two ago – it was incredible. He was on the roof, tried to jump into a tree but missed, and a few seconds then thump and he just ran up the trunk instead! I would almost say my favorite animal, but there are some other pretty majestic animals out there.
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29 January 2005
Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:43:05 GMT BIOL103 - a photoset on Flickrvia Kjell Olsen1439 days agoA sweet set of microscopic slides scanned (I think) from Northwestern U.
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26 October 2004
Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:01:00 GMT Apple - iPod Photovia Kjell Olsen1534 days agoThe coolest new kid on the apple block in awhile. Big color screen, 15 wonderful hours of battery life and the ability to browse and display photos via a TV screen! Go apple go! And you can even see the art from your songs as they play… I bet there are some killer games on this thing!
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