Photo Of The Day

Laborers work on a highway tunnel, in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China on July 15, 2010. The tunnel is part of the unfinished 23 km (14.3 miles) Taigu highway, that connects Taiyuan and Gujiao, local media reported.

Reuters / Stringer

A sandstorm blows past a reconnaissance blimp inside FOB Joyce in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.

June 24, 2012.

Reuters / Lucas Jackson

Architecture of Density
Hong Kong

2006

Michael Wolf

North Korean soldiers look inside the U.N. Command Military Armistice Commission meeting room as a South Korean and an U.S. soldier (R) look on at the border village of Panmunjom that separates the two Koreas, north of Seoul. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and a group of members of the U.S. House of Representatives visited here Friday.

April 29th, 2011

Reuters / Korea Pool

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That albatross one made me so sad :(

in one of the most spectacular unmanned launches of recent years, the massive 24-story Delta 4-Heavy rocket - two-thirds the height of the Saturn V and about the same size and power of the Saturn 1B of the Apollo days - fires to life, quite literally speaking, on its second flight and first at night. Nearly three years after its first ended with a dummy satellite nearly 10,000 miles short of its target orbit, this time the 23rd and last Defense Support Program (DSP-23) missile-warning satellite was deployed flawlessly over six hours later.

Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA

11/10/07 ~ 8:50pm

Ben Cooper

If you like that then you'll love this. Turn the sound up loud, its mesmerizing
http://www.youtube.com/embed/2aCOyOvOw5c

Not as poignant or interesting looking as above, but I really like the look he is giving (from the tdf thread)

Apparently the photo credit is Cav.

@MarkCavendish
Here's @EiselBernhard getting his wounds dressed.... Poor man. http://pic.twitter.com/xcREFru8

I've seen this photo before, whats really tricky is where he shot it from was really not far away, so had to use a very wide lens then likely spent an age rectifying it post process.

The ziggurat at Choga Zanbil, the largest known ziggurat.

http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ziggurat

I've seen this photo before, whats really tricky is where he shot it from was really not far away, so had to use a very wide lens then likely spent an age rectifying it post process.

Tilt-shift lens?

As I understand it, tilt-shifts are for manipulating depth of field, not achieving wider shots. I'm sure someone will come along and correct me though.

You're pressing all kinds of buttons for me there, Spotter old lad! #like

As I understand it, tilt-shifts are for manipulating depth of field, not achieving wider shots. I'm sure someone will come along and correct me though.

Your right, and wrong.

A tilt/shift lens can't/doesn't make a single image any wider than a single image from a non tilt shift lens of equal focal length ie 50mm t/s lens v normal 50mm lens. The shift function of a tilt and shift lens (or field camera) is however often used to make multiple exposures of a scene which can then be stitched together. Because the film plane stays put there's a lot less distortion etc than you might normally get when making a panoramic or stitched image.

They are for architecture photography, they straighten the lines of a building, ie prevent tombstoning in an image shot wide and low.

They are for architecture photography, they straighten the lines of a building, ie prevent tombstoning in an image shot wide and low.

Correcting/preventing converging verticals is but one of the things a tilt shift lens can do, and architectural photography is but one specific area of photography where this is useful.

A tilt/shift lens/field camera is far from being a one trick pony.

http://lucasfoglia.com/a-natural-order/

I think these are great. Not all are safe for work.

Yeah nice, reminds me a bit of this book

http://www.janehilton.com/photography/dead_eagle_trail.php

http://lucasfoglia.com/a-natural-order/

I think these are great. Not all are safe for work.

Really interesting set of pics. My uncle and his wife, along with a bunch of their friends did the same thing in the mid-70s in West Virginia.

They all ended up as pillars of the local community: EMT/Nurse, Special Education Teacher, Musician, Psychiaratrist and Evironmental Laywer for the State of W.V. Amongst other things.

http://lucasfoglia.com/a-natural-order/

I think these are great. Not all are safe for work.

Great stuff in there. Seen a few similar sets but this fel different, had a certain intimacy and authenticity about it. Didn't feel like they're trying to convince me about anything, if that makes sense?

Really good set that Will. I'm really into the slight hint of menace that ebbs and flows in and out of the series. Something really creepy happens when clicking between the dead bear and the woman in the doorway with the shadow on the ground. Some of them are so optimistic too.

Ouch!

(view at own risk, may affect sensible people)

Ouch!

(view at own risk, may affect sensible people)

A tad out of date no?