Free Gift Close Up

Some cool photo gifts images:

Free Gift Close Up

Image by Vampire Bear
Close up view of our free gift that was sent to us by our stationary supplier.
We're going to pat him and pet him and call him George!

Best! Thank-You Gift! EVER!

Image by andyi
Gave a talk to Washington Apple Pi this morning and received the greatest thank-you gift ever: a Holga 120 rollfilm camera.

It is made of plastic and has many imperfections and no technical superlatives of any kind. But it's become a cult camera because -- like so many of us -- it has a winning personality and thus people tend to reclassify its faults as mere Quirks.

Quirks of the Chinese-made Holga include: a cheap, distortive lens that vignettes the corners of the frame and a poorly-designed back that leaks light. This kit actually includes a roll of electrical tape. The instructions urge you to tape down the two AA batteries that power the flash and to strap the camera with it to tighten the back a little better.

The group presented it to me after my talk and I couldn't have been more delighted. I took a seat while the rest of the meeting continued. Thennnn...

...I noticed that film was included in the box.

I am a weak man. So yes, I unwrapped the cellophane and tried to assemble the camera and load it up as quietly as I could. There was no way I was leaving there without Holga shots of the group.

Here, let me show them to you:

Oh.

It's on film.

I have to send it out and wait for the prints to come back.

Well, we can look forward to that, then.

Apple Pi went to the top of the range and bought me the Holga 120CFN, with built-in flash AND integrated color flash filters. Twist the knob up at the top and and Red, Blue, and Yellow filters rotate into position to color the flash light.

(I have just had a discussion with the friend I'm staying with -- a scientist -- about whether this thingy is Filtering the light or Tinting it.)

(I have some really awesome friends.)

I'm going to have a lot of fun with this (for the next 12 exposures, at least). The whole point of the Holga is to return to the days of fun, snapshot photography. If there's no chance of producing a clear image free from defects, you can dispense with the Lust For Perfection and just take some damned pictures.

Check out the manual right here.

Damn, I've spent almost an hour engrossed in the Holga FAQ, and a set of instructions for how to use the Holga lens on a DSLR, and a Holga group on Flickr, and...

...Okay I'm clearly going to be up for a while. You kids go play.

Cool Picture Collage images

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"Take a picture for mommy like you're going to get me all dirty." THEN, "Wait, take a couple more daddy. I can look more scared."

Image by clarkmaxwell
My miniature art director (aka: my partner in crime).

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Image by lah1971

more spices

Image by Daniel*1977
Samsung digital camera

bobland_ball

Image by shannonkringen
yuMMy moss growing on these big balls!

Nice Fun With Photos photos

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Jasper with his lovely hostess : Gendered Fashion Part I

Image by Jasper Gregory
www.jasperswardobe.com for more transgender fashion blogging

The beautiful High Femme on the left hosted a fantastic Hanukkah party. Her dress is amazing. The fit is great. It is classically sexy by baring arms and shoulders, rather than legs. I love her jewelery, headpiece and attitude as well.
I am very pleased with my outfit as well. The play of blues and yellows with the bare shoulder is fun. When I saw the pic I thought "wow, total eighties."
I got the earrings at Piedmont on Haight street. The owner has been making them since the eighties when she would wholesale them to large chains. She has them in all of the colors of the rainbow and more.
The tights are American Apparel (tip: get a size smaller than you think you need. AA tights always stretch.)
The bag is from five and diamond.
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I had a great time that night. The crowd was queer, sophisticated, beautiful and trans friendly. What more could you ask? Funny thing, in my mind I was in complete girl drag. But if I look at the picture I think genderqueer, circus, or performer of some sort. This outfit leaves the gender binary behind.
I am starting to experiment with non-binary outfits again. I am femme identified and I have been focusing on femme drag for a couple of months, but I am in a space where I am reorienting my drag. In an ode to Deleuze I would say that I have been on a path of 'becoming-femme', but it has started to feel stratifying rather than liberating. I want to explore gender mutation for a while. At this juncture I will ponder some recent gendered fashion choices. I will start with color in my next post.

General Contact Unit

Image by GreyArea
You can get your own at www.flickr.com/fun/buddies.gne

The first person to do this was Stewart (of course.)

Then striatic who added notes for some contacts (there, attribution!)

And then there was Meer and then txkimmers turned it into art. (But has since deleted it! *snf*)

And now vacapinta has one too.

Inspiration: @media 2008

Some cool image websites images:

Inspiration: @media 2008

Image by Patrick Haney
@media, a fantastic conference series set for London and San Francisco in 2008, goes with a simple 2 column layout and a very monochrome color scheme. I love the textured background and the @media header image, as well as the grouped "Navigate" block and the huge "REGISTER NOW!" button.

Visit the site: http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2008/sanfrancisco/
Read more about this Web Design Inspiration set on Flickr

Double Up

Image by Vincent_AF
LARGE



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Bangkok Full of Color, Life and Energy

Image by Captain Kimo
captainkimo.com/bangkok-full-of-color-life-and-energy

Bangkok has got to be the most colorful city I've ever been to. It's full of life and energy every where I look. Even down small alleyways people are busy doing something.

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Nice Picture Framing photos

Some cool picture framing images:

11th session backpiece

Image by ian.mcrob
closer up detail

Snowboard Gear Wall

Image by VancityAllie
Snowboard Gear Wall

This photo from www.VancityAllie.com 's blog!

Nice Magic Photo photos

A few nice magic photo images I found:

Die Magie der Erscheinung

Image by Mara ~earth light~
- The Magic of appearance -

background: Cutting from an old painting - Artist unknown
women: www.flickr.com/photos/collin_key/3387279428/
moon/ball: www.flickr.com/photos/alicepopkorn/2219219752/
texture: www.flickr.com/photos/27805557@N08/4165411114/in/set-7215...

for magic...

Image by *brilho-de-conta
fly paula
this is my autumn pola...

Very Magic 5.19.10 - 04

Image by elawgrrl
Very Magic play Transitions Art Gallery, May 19, 2010.

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Nice Photo Library photos

Check out these photo library images:

Library Towers

Image by National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Thought that it was time to include a photo of us! This is the National Library of Ireland building on Kildare Street, Dublin. We first opened to the public on Friday, 29 August 1890.

The next day's Irish Times, recorded that the opening was "a very brilliant affair in every way. There was an enormous concourse of visitors, specially invited - a brilliant assemblage, in truth, of learning and beauty, and of personages of distinction in the social and official world of this country."

Date: Circa 1895

NLI Ref.: LROY 2501

Frame created with ImageFramer for the Mac.

A few nice picture frame images I found:

Frame created with ImageFramer for the Mac.

Image by glen.dahlman
Frame created with Apparent Software's ImageFramer 2.4.6 for Mac OS X.

Frame created with ImageFramer for the Mac.

Image by glen.dahlman
Frame created with Apparent Software's ImageFramer 2.4.6 for Mac OS X.

Frame created with ImageFramer for the Mac.

Image by glen.dahlman
Frame created with Apparent Software's ImageFramer 2.4.6 for Mac OS X.

Dailyshoot 2011~ vertical lines~the woods!

A few nice picture images I found:

Dailyshoot 2011~ vertical lines~the woods!

Image by Leshaines123
This picture part of the DailyShoot theme vertical lines and is one of three that I have decided to use. I always liked the idea of the lines in a forest and the patterns heading into the distance, and this is another attempt at that kind of shot. Was particularly lucky with the light, which gives the spectaular green glow to the picture. Taken in the woods around Bartestree Herefordshire UK

www.flickr.com/photos/leshaines123/
pinterest.com/leshaines/photography-images-of-a-journey-t...
www.facebook.com/leshainesImages

My picture of Wil Wheaton

Image by heath_bar
This last Saturday I hitched a ride with Rich to Emerald City ComiCon. I had read on his blog that he was going to be there and made a effert to seek him out. While looking around, the voice over the speaker said he was here and signing now. I left the group of friend I was with and headed over there with a good 15 people long. It did not take too long. He said he like the shirt I had on and asked where I got it from. The shirt said "Nice to meet you. Roll Initiative" from geeklable. It made my day. I picked the hard back verison of his current book, The Happiest Days of Our Lives and had it signed along with a picture from his TNG days. I had wanted to pick up some of his other books, but he did not have any there. I will have to see what he has at San Diego ComiCon. I shuck his hand (good grip) and took a picture of him (see above). Had fun, not a full day con, but found a few items I did not know I needed till I found them.

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Beach Pano, New Zealand

A few nice fun with photos images I found:

Beach Pano, New Zealand

Image by stewartbaird
Having some fun with a crazy pano. This one is 5 shots taken portrait mode and then stiched together with Photoshop.

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Double Oak

Image by slimmer_jimmer
More fun with my new DIY Splitzer.

#21 in my Oak Tree series.

Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim + DIY Splitzer + double exposure mod + Kodak Ektar 100

232/365 - i

Check out these photo books images:

232/365 - i <3 photography 4/10

Image by Www.CourtneyCarmody.com/
I want to be the very best

I'm still learning

SOOC

Facebook Fan Page! <-- You Can "Like" That!

twitter.com/blahhcourtney
www.myspace.com/calamity_photography
www.facebook.com/ccalamity

Latest acquisition

Image by Karl Gunnarsson
I need to calm down, but Book Depository did have a sale…

Nice Image Source photos

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IMAGE_281

Image by shawnblog

- Camera phone upload powered by ShoZu

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Image by shawnblog

- Camera phone upload powered by ShoZu

Cool Christmas Card Photo images

Some cool christmas card photo images:

Christmas card.

Image by partymonstrrrr
Nicholas made a comment about using the front cover of a set of scrapbooking flats I found (Martha Stewart brand, believe it or not) as a matte for a photo, which made a little lightbulb go off in my head... How about using it as a frame, for an actual photo??

I like the way it turned out, too.

Charlotte-Anne, my Blybe (Blythe clone). Dress by Dolls Ahoy. Fur collar (worn as shrug) by rement. Bracelet by Barbie Basics.

Christmas Card 2008

Image by Renee V
Picture People photo shoot w/ just us girls.

Nice Christmas Photo Card photos

A few nice christmas photo card images I found:

Christmas in Roseland, Gardens of the American Rose Society

Image by Shreveport-Bossier: Louisiana's Other Side
Each Christmas, the Gardens of the American Rose Center is transformed into a whimsical winter wonderland featuring thousands of twinkling lights, dozens of lighted displays, giant Christmas Cards to the Community, nightly entertainment, photos with Santa, rides on the Roseland Express train and tons of fun for the whole family! This month-long celebration is called Christmas in Roseland. For more information on the Gardens of the American Rose Society or Christmas in Roseland, visit www.ars.org.

Christmas in Roseland, Gardens of the American Rose Society

Image by Shreveport-Bossier: Louisiana's Other Side
Each Christmas, the Gardens of the American Rose Center is transformed into a whimsical winter wonderland featuring thousands of twinkling lights, dozens of lighted displays, giant Christmas Cards to the Community, nightly entertainment, photos with Santa, rides on the Roseland Express train and tons of fun for the whole family! This month-long celebration is called Christmas in Roseland. For more information on the Gardens of the American Rose Society or Christmas in Roseland, visit www.ars.org.

Nice Share Photos photos

Some cool share photos images:

Chrysti's Textures -4

Image by ArtByChrysti
You have permission to use these textures freely when you incorporate them into your non-profit artwork, please be sure to follow the terms below:

- Image must be altered/incorporated into your artwork in some way.

- Please credit/link to me when using my textures.

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- If you wish to sell your images using these, please contact me for written permission first: note I will ask to see the finished work, and your use (print, article, etc) before granting permission.

Under NO circumstances may these textures be used for:

- CD collections that you sell, website stock that you offer, collage sheets or any other collection whether for profit, or not.

- Website backgrounds, sold, offered or used as an individual image. Link to my set if you wish to share these with others :-)

One last important note:

Only the images in my photostream with the terms of use clearly stated, and a CC license applied to them, are offered for your use. All other photos and artwork are off-limits for any downloading. I retain all copyrights to my work. Thanks!

If you use these, I'd love to see how! Feel free to leave a SMALL sized photo with it in my comments so I can visit easily!

Hope they inspire you & happy creating!

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A Walrus's reaction after being presented with a birthday cake made entirely out of fishes. Animals have feelings too...

Image by CHARMERS•*´¨`♥
To CUTE not to share...photo from Pinterest

Nibbler *

Some cool christmas card photo images:

Nibbler *

Image by Selbe B
Christmas Card

Photos with Santa
Petco
Christmas 2010

Duncan-Album02-027

Image by Paul-W
The photo from our Holiday Card in 1997 - Cameron and Duncan on the couch with the "Merry Christmas" blanket behind them.
1997

Munchlet *

Image by Selbe B
Christmas Card

Photos with Santa
Petco
Christmas 2010

Just Ain't What I Used To Be

Check out these digital picture frame images:

Just Ain't What I Used To Be

Image by mbtphoto (away a lot)
My screws are still tight! But the external of the framing is beginning to wear out as well as the beauty of the paint is diminished!

utterly.... utterly...

Image by s2art
I first visited this area in 1987 at the begininng of my photo studies, at the time my then current girlfriend lived not far form here, I had myself grown up only a kilometer or two away. I recently returned having been practising my photo-skills for a few years longer to see what I might see.

Well I saw plenty, but the film is still unprocessed and I only took 3 digi-cam shots.

Fucking batteries.

Next visit, take my extra battery and who knows maybe a 747 will shoot through the frame in the background?

See where this picture was taken.

hackNY spring 2013 student hackathon

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hackNY spring 2013 student hackathon

Image by hackNY
Photo by Matylda Czarnecka

The spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon brought in hundreds of students to Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science April 6-7 for 24 hours of creative collaborative hacking on New York City startups' APIs.

NYC Startups, selected by a student organizing committee, presented their technologies at the beginning of the event, after which students formed groups to work through the night implementing their own ideas for fresh hacks built on top of these APIs.

On Sunday afternoon students presented their projects to an audience including a judging panel featuring members of the NYC startup community, which selected the final winning teams.

Since April 2010, hackNY hosts student hackathons one each semester, as well as the hackNY Fellows program, a structured internship which pairs quantitative and computational students with startups which can demonstrate a strong mentoring environment: a problem for a student to work on, a person to mentor them, and a place for them to work. Startups selected to host a student compensate student Fellows. Students enjoy free housing together and a pedagogical lecture series to introduce them to the ins and outs of joining and founding a startup in NYC.

To find out what you missed at the spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon please do see our HackerLeague event page and blog post announcing the winners.

Special thanks to our spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon judges! And congratulations to the winners of the spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon!


For more information on hackNY's initiatives, please visit www.hackny.org and follow us on twitter @hackNY

hackNY spring 2013 student hackathon

Image by hackNY
Photo by Matylda Czarnecka

The spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon brought in hundreds of students to Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science April 6-7 for 24 hours of creative collaborative hacking on New York City startups' APIs.

NYC Startups, selected by a student organizing committee, presented their technologies at the beginning of the event, after which students formed groups to work through the night implementing their own ideas for fresh hacks built on top of these APIs.

On Sunday afternoon students presented their projects to an audience including a judging panel featuring members of the NYC startup community, which selected the final winning teams.

Since April 2010, hackNY hosts student hackathons one each semester, as well as the hackNY Fellows program, a structured internship which pairs quantitative and computational students with startups which can demonstrate a strong mentoring environment: a problem for a student to work on, a person to mentor them, and a place for them to work. Startups selected to host a student compensate student Fellows. Students enjoy free housing together and a pedagogical lecture series to introduce them to the ins and outs of joining and founding a startup in NYC.

To find out what you missed at the spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon please do see our HackerLeague event page and blog post announcing the winners.

Special thanks to our spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon judges! And congratulations to the winners of the spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon!


For more information on hackNY's initiatives, please visit www.hackny.org and follow us on twitter @hackNY

hackNY spring 2013 student hackathon

Image by hackNY
Photo by Matylda Czarnecka

The spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon brought in hundreds of students to Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science April 6-7 for 24 hours of creative collaborative hacking on New York City startups' APIs.

NYC Startups, selected by a student organizing committee, presented their technologies at the beginning of the event, after which students formed groups to work through the night implementing their own ideas for fresh hacks built on top of these APIs.

On Sunday afternoon students presented their projects to an audience including a judging panel featuring members of the NYC startup community, which selected the final winning teams.

Since April 2010, hackNY hosts student hackathons one each semester, as well as the hackNY Fellows program, a structured internship which pairs quantitative and computational students with startups which can demonstrate a strong mentoring environment: a problem for a student to work on, a person to mentor them, and a place for them to work. Startups selected to host a student compensate student Fellows. Students enjoy free housing together and a pedagogical lecture series to introduce them to the ins and outs of joining and founding a startup in NYC.

To find out what you missed at the spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon please do see our HackerLeague event page and blog post announcing the winners.

Special thanks to our spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon judges! And congratulations to the winners of the spring 2013 hackNY student hackathon!


For more information on hackNY's initiatives, please visit www.hackny.org and follow us on twitter @hackNY

Nice Image Gallery photos

A few nice image gallery images I found:

Sweet, Sweet Galaxy by Pip & Pop

Image by Karen Roe
Smiths Row, The Market Cross, Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 1BT
Tel: +44 (0) 1284 762081

We are happy to welcome Australian artists Tanya Schultz, Nicole Andrijevic and John Kassab to Smiths Row in what is their first major British show. Schultz and Andrijevic have worked in collaboration since 2007 using the alias Pip & Pop and this is their second collaboration with sound artist Kassab.

Sweet sweet galaxy is a unique installation depicting an infinite psychedelic landscape. An amalgamation of numerous materials including coloured sugar, fine sand, cake decorations, origami, found objects, LED lights and sound, this colourful sensory kingdom will be constructed directly in the gallery space in early January.

The soundscape, created in collaboration with Melbourne-based John Kassab, adds another layer of immersion to the audience experience and sense of being transported to a faraway or imagined place. Whilst the soundscape adds to the narrative of the imagined landscape, interpreting the sounds with sugar has been central to Pip & Pop's process when working with John.

The sugar used in this exhibition has been kindly donated by Silverspoon. As the sole producers of homegrown British sugar the company supports 1200 East Anglian beet farmers. According to Dan Gough of Silverspoon: "the sugar used in this exhibition was grown an average of 30 miles away from the gallery".

Nice Image Gallery photos

A few nice image gallery images I found:

Sweet, Sweet Galaxy by Pip & Pop

Image by Karen Roe
Smiths Row, The Market Cross, Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 1BT
Tel: +44 (0) 1284 762081

We are happy to welcome Australian artists Tanya Schultz, Nicole Andrijevic and John Kassab to Smiths Row in what is their first major British show. Schultz and Andrijevic have worked in collaboration since 2007 using the alias Pip & Pop and this is their second collaboration with sound artist Kassab.

Sweet sweet galaxy is a unique installation depicting an infinite psychedelic landscape. An amalgamation of numerous materials including coloured sugar, fine sand, cake decorations, origami, found objects, LED lights and sound, this colourful sensory kingdom will be constructed directly in the gallery space in early January.

The soundscape, created in collaboration with Melbourne-based John Kassab, adds another layer of immersion to the audience experience and sense of being transported to a faraway or imagined place. Whilst the soundscape adds to the narrative of the imagined landscape, interpreting the sounds with sugar has been central to Pip & Pop's process when working with John.

The sugar used in this exhibition has been kindly donated by Silverspoon. As the sole producers of homegrown British sugar the company supports 1200 East Anglian beet farmers. According to Dan Gough of Silverspoon: "the sugar used in this exhibition was grown an average of 30 miles away from the gallery".

Nice Nature Image photos

Check out these nature image images:

Natures Gift

Image by Property#1

distorted futurology

Check out these change background image images:

distorted futurology

Image by Will Lion
“Futurology has a built-in distortion towards technological novelty, while ignoring the continued appeal of what has gone before. It cannot recognise what the historian David Edgerton of Imperial College has dubbed “the shock of the old”. Our demands rarely change over time, only the way in which the market supplies them.”

Simon Jenkins | Times Online

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/simon_jenkin...

Background image courtesty of cobalt123: www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/41634515 (this citation is on the image's top right corner too)

Sunset on Top of Haleakala, Maui Hawaii

Image by Denis Dore Photography
A perfect sunset - Top of Haleakala Volcano - Maui, Hawaii.

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Please respect this license to promote sharing in an ethical way.

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Nice Share Image photos

A few nice share image images I found:

(animate stereo) Meiji-era geisha in Hikone park

Image by Thiophene_Guy
The purpose here is not to duplicate the original image, from Okinawa Soba's stream, but to generate an animated gif to assist viewing. Unfortunately, animation is not automatic - to animate you must view the image at original resolution (click all sizes) or simply scroll down.

Okinawa Soba posted several CC licensed stereoimages by T. Enami documenting life in early 20th century Japan (the Meiji period). The original hand tinted image, presented for parallel viewing and showing geisha in Hikone park, is one of many remarkable stereo compositions. This animated gif version exploits motion parallax to give a stereo illusion without eyestrain, to see what the photographer envisioned.

Animated gif generated with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes

(animated stereo) Old Amsterdam, circa 1870

Image by Thiophene_Guy
The purpose here is not to duplicate the original image, from Hyfija's Flickr stream, but to generate an animated gif to assist viewing. Unfortunately, animation is not automatic - to animate you must view the image at original resolution (click all sizes) or simply scroll down.

Hyfija has posted a series of creative commons licensed 19th century stereographs depicting Amsterdam. This scenic view is tagged "Red light district". See the original stereograph.

Animated gif generated with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes Notes: The left image was rotated +0.7 degrees to make this gif.

(animated stereo) Triptych: WWI balloon and crew (2 of 3)

Image by Thiophene_Guy
To view the stereo illusion either scroll down to the second image in the triptych below or view original size (actions menu, above).

whatsthatpicture's photostream is rich with original and vintage imagery. This Great War (World War I) image titled Great War Observation Balloon Stereoview (3 of 4) depicts troops, possibly French, inflating a balloon for launch.

Copyright Advisory
The original image may be in the public domain due to copyright expiration. The digital image is available from Whatsthatpicture under creative commons license: www.flickr.com/photos/whatsthatpicture/4993815007/ .

Technical trivia
Image manipulation and animated gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes. Scaling: Left, 99.5; right, 100.3