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Incredible Photos from India

23-Sep-08

Don’t miss “Scenes from India,” from the Boston Globe’s exceptional photo blog.
Number 19 — the pic of the Bengal tiger being returned to the wild — is one of my favorites. Number 24, the shot of the human pyramid, is also incredible.
(My own meager attempts to make compelling photos in India can be found […]

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“Visitors from Another Planet”

22-Sep-08

Photos of tourists in Washington, DC during the 1980s. I love it. For so many reasons.
(Via World Hum.)

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Images: Volcanic Activity, Stock Photos, and Fireworks

18-Jul-08

Richard Wanderman has pointed to a couple of good photo-related items of late: Recent Volcanic Activity (the third from the bottom is my favorite — simply wonderful) and a Slate story called “The Weird Science of Stock Photography.” (And don’t miss Richard’s own images from the 4th of July: “A Different View of Fireworks.”)

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The Big Picture

05-Jun-08

The Big Picture is a new offering from the Boston Globe that presents compelling images and the news stories behind them. Don’t miss the photos of the uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian Amazon.

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iPhoto Tweaks: Getting the Most Out of Apple’s Image Editing Application

23-Mar-08

I generally like using iPhoto, Apple’s default image management and editing software. But with nearly 8,000 images in my library and limited RAM and hard drive space, opening the application and its accompanying 20 gigabytes of data was taking an eternity, and even basic tasks were becoming unwieldy.
I’ve now figured out a better way to […]

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