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“Contraband” Reveals Strange Souvenirs
by Deblina Chakraborty | September 24, 2010
One of the most annoying aspects of international travel is going through customs, particularly if you have an exotic taste in souvenirs. But a glimpse of Taryn Simon’s new photos series called “Contraband” may put your mind at ease.
At least one of these photos will make you laugh today: 33 Pictures Caught at Exactly the Right Moment Zoom, click, flash – and with that, through luck or skill of the photographer, sometimes an image is captured at just the right second. Here are 33 pictures caught at the perfect moment. A couple of [...]
You Asked: How are pictures of embryos taken inside of a human? — Sarah, Lewisburg, W.Va. Marshall Brain Answers: Here is one of the most famous images you are referring to, as it appeared on the cover of Time magazine: Time cover The first photos of this kind were taken by Lennart Nielson and published [...]
Image enhancement has been a big part of crime shows and mystery movies for a long time. As demonstrated in the following video montage, it has become something of a cliche: Technology is starting to catch up with the imagination. If you have video (or multiple photos) rather than a still image, and if you [...]
I have great respect for people who are Photoshop experts. The modifications that they can make to photographs, and the original artwork that they can create with the tool, are amazing. This video gives you an example of the kind of things a “Photoshop pro” is thinking about when he uses Photoshop: To a mere [...]
We have previously discussed the Gigapan system: Gigapixel images And a world record photo taken with the Gigapan system: World record #86 – the world’s largest stitched image is 17 gigapixels Now there is a new photo containing 26 gigapixels that is claiming the record. The creation of the image is described here: You can [...]
NASA’s view of the Landsat program: ‘The Landsat program is the longest continuous global record of the Earth’s surface, and continues to deliver both visually stunning and scientifically valuable images of our planet. This short video highlights Landsat’s many benefits to society:’ The Landsat program started with Landsat 1 in 1972. It lasted until 1978. [...]
The fact that still, 2D photographs are still so popular is funny – why haven’t they been completely replaced by video? Perhaps it is because, by catching a fraction of a second, they allow a deception to exist that is useful to human beings, as demonstrated here: The video offers several useful tips for heightening [...]
In Yosemite National Park there are two phenomena known as a firefall. The first is a man-made phenomenon created, literally, from fire falling. This firefall occurred each night at 9PM at Glacier Point for nearly a century, as described in this video: See also: Yosemite Firefall The second is a natural optical phenomenon that occurs [...]
Photos – Fiery Festivals in Europe make for amazing pictures
by Marshall Brain | February 3, 2010
Sometimes there are photographs that just blow you away. This is a set of pictures like that. Where else are you going to see horses galloping through bonfires? Fiery European Festivals There are two festivals depicted. The first: Up Helly Aa, a fire festival celebrated for over 130 years now in Scotland’s Shetland islands This [...]
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