tingilinde

the first photographic portrait

And the first photo of a woman.

 

dog photography

The year's best

some beautiful work

 

retro polaroid cameras

Polaroid cameras with self developing film were a thing in the 60s and 70s.  Now a new camera  Film goes for about two bucks an image encouraging thought before pushing the shutter.

 

a fast camera

Potentially several million frames per second for under $10k.  A friend who regularly uses somewhat slower cameras for engineering measurements says he is usually working with 10,000 frames per second with rented equipment.  Sports science analysis is generally only a few hundred frames per second with specialized work (balls hitting bats and gold clubs) going to a few thousand. 

 

a beautiful pod

Every once and awhile a real beauty shows up.

and, of course, there are the gee-whiz images.

 

 

great photography

Photography from the World Athletics Championships that just ended in Budapest.

 

 

 

a beautiful roll cloud

Over Wisconsin - from yesterday's APOD.

 

wwii aerial photography

An archive of aerial photos from the USAAF has been released.  There's an interactive map with a fraction of the images - all over England.  Some of you will zero in on Cambridge, I'm sure.

 

 

dealing with fake images 100 years ago

The Cottingley fairy hoax

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The story of the Cottingley fairies has always fascinated me—not because of the particulars of the case, but because of what it reveals about the life cycle of a lie. In contrast to other famous hoaxes, it doesn’t seem malicious, or even necessarily deliberate. Instead it seems to me to be a story about how a single, relatively small act of deception can lead a large group of people to lose control over the truth.

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processing jwst images

For science as well as the public.

also some short youtube videos