March 2007 Archives

blck bx, originally uploaded by zachstern.

I actually saw this shot last night while I was looking at my contacts' photos. I just love the contrast between the bright airy sky and the dark foreboding building...

Runners Up

Today's only Runner Up is from Patricio Orozco-Contreras. This man takes incredible portraits!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/patricio_orozco-contreras/437121965/

Colours of scotland, originally uploaded by nicolas valentin.

Runners Up due to size:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/harvest-ja/433533537/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/usamarehman/436314868/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/46267637@N00/436443378/

location, location, location, originally uploaded by zachstern.

Sorry for getting this out late to everyone. I was out of the house most of the day. :-)

Today's photo is a little short for background use, but it should work ok on a widescreen monitor. It just seemed too cool to pass up though...

Runners Up due to size:

http://flickr.com/photos/thepres/436293379/

http://flickr.com/photos/malona/422523221/

http://flickr.com/photos/jimheid/435252193/

http://flickr.com/photos/leylagundogan/434824255/

http://flickr.com/photos/davidsangle/436837530/

Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista, originally uploaded by eugene2008.

Runners Up due to size:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45441661@N00/434815943/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnydaystudio/433541524/ - Really liked this one, too bad it was too small...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianechapman/433968230/

Estrellas, originally uploaded by MaiKoh.

My usual technique was having a hard time turning up images large enough for our daily pic. So I started going through my contact's photos, hoping one would jump out at me. I like this one more than the candidates from the usual pool! Plus it's a ready-made desktop with the large negative space on the left. :-)

Runners Up due to size:

Lots of nice pics that just weren't available in large sizes...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vzozaya/430371844/ - Almost big enough

http://www.flickr.com/photos/manolinlao/430757352/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adele2006/431221030/ - A great macro shot

http://www.flickr.com/photos/haikulinde/431197769/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shashamane/431201959/

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Ok, I don't routinely cross link to new articles anymore, but this one was just too funny. Anyone who follows copyright laws or football knows that the NFL is very protective of it's broadcast of the Super Bowl. This year it made news by banning churches from displaying the game on TVs larger than 55 inches (and then reversing its decision later).

YouTube, bastion of all things copyright-violated, received a DMCA notification to remove a clip of the Super Bowl from their site. They promptly complied. Business as usual?

Not exactly. The clip wasn't of the game per-se. It was a clip of the copyright notice that NFL broadcasts immediately before the game starts. And it was posted by a law professor for her class as an example of how copyright holders overstep the bounds of their copyright protection.

As you can imagine, it only gets better from there. Read the whole story here.

Blue Mist, originally uploaded by D L Ennis.

Another beautiful picture from D L Ennis to remind me of my time in Blacksburg, VA...

Last 4..., originally uploaded by Flickr Admin.

I'm going to start allowing comments on the Pic of the Day entries. We'll see how much spam I get...

Couchédredon, originally uploaded by mmarsupilami.

The colors are muted on this one, but I think that's part of it's charm...

Whoa Camel. Whoa~!, originally uploaded by dogonnit.

I love shots of animals with personality.

Not Alone (1 of 5), originally uploaded by zachstern.

Today's picture is an example of Infrared (IR) photography. In film cameras, it's possible to buy IR sensitive film and use a special IR filter to capture unusual images. In the digital world, many cameras can be disassembled and reconfigured to capture IR images instead of visible light images. I've been watching zachstern's photostream because he has a lot of cool IR images from a $30 camera he reconfigured. Today's pic is courtesy of zachstern & his IR camera...

Just One, originally uploaded by coldmountain.

Sploosh, originally uploaded by coldmountain.

Today gets two pictures from the same photographer, depending on your tastes. He's got some pretty cool stuff in his photo stream if you want to check the rest of them out...