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smartphone eyepiece adapter

I haven't seen one of these, but was given a solid recommendation,  The big feature is 3-axis adjustment.  Not terribly expense as these things go,

 

podcasting in earlier days

 

truth in advertising

trust me - watch this one

 

before photoshop

From 1972 - the surreal photography of Bill Binzen.

 

creating a difficult image

Photographic lighting technique of an expert.

a tip of the hat to Doug

a pioneering photographer

A piece on Félix Nadar in the London Review of Books - one of the early photographers credited with capturing the essence of subjects.  It turns out he ranged far beyond that.

snip

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Yet for all Nadar’s gifts with the camera, his interests constantly flitted elsewhere. He was, in the words of his friend Jules Verne, ‘enamoured of the impossible’. His career in portrait photography lasted a relatively short time, most of it packed into the 1850s and 1860s. Alongside it, he achieved a series of historical firsts, with and without the camera: the first person to take photographs from the air, carried aloft in a hot-air balloon; the first to take photographs successfully in the absence of natural light, in a series of extraordinary images from the Paris catacombs and sewers; and the first to transport mail by air, again using hot-air balloons, during the Prussian War and the siege of Paris.

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greenland from the air

Aerial images of one of global warming's ground zero locations.

a tip of the hat to Sukie

 

long exposures

Try a millennia 

 

astronomy photos of the year

Some very nice, mostly amateur, work.

 

the beautiful tiny world

Winners of the latest Nikon Photomicrography contest

amazing images