Kent Beatty on February 26th, 2009

Amazing Stop Motion Video
Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance

 
Oren Lavie’s album The Opposite Side of the Sea, to be released March 2009, The song "Her Morning Elegance". This beautiful video captures this song and brings it to life.
 

Via Oren’s MySpace page:
 
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Kent Beatty on January 19th, 2009

Photo by dejay - Get/View this photo in all sizes including Original (4594×2590)
Both Edisto Beach and Edisto Island, South Carolina are named for the Edisto Indians, the area’s original inhabitants. Edisto Beach is located on the southern tip of Edisto Island and is part of Colleton County, while the rest of Edisto Island is part [...]

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Kent Beatty on January 14th, 2009

The 12.3-megapixel Nikon D90 is the first digital SLR
to shoot HD Video at 720p

Chase Jarvis RAW: Advanced Testing The Nikon D90

Chase Jarvis Photography
Nikon D90 Review – Digital Photography Review
Nikon D90 Specifications Revealed
Nikon D90 Sample Photos

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Kent Beatty on November 30th, 2008

From Reykjavik to Husavik, Iceland is a land of often bleak but always magnificent beauty:

These photos of Iceland are from a photo essay by Nathan Myhrvold.  These shots were stitched together from multiple frames into one picture.   His photo essay “Panoramas and Photo Technology From Iceland And Greenland” was published at Edge.org.  To see the [...]

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Kent Beatty on November 25th, 2008

"National Hotel, Moscow" by Sam Abell © 2008 National Geographic
Sam Abell is a photographer who has worked for National Geographic and made thousands of images over the decades.  He describes his photographic technique as straightforward and he publishes all his images full frame with no cropping.  When asked about his photographic influences, Sam said that [...]

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Kent Beatty on November 16th, 2008

Nick, Seth & Robert with Paris
 

Select an effect and put your friend’s face in a fun photo at PhotoFunia.com
 

Nick, Joel & Andrew

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Kent Beatty on November 5th, 2008

 Celebrating World Animal Day - October 4th
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
         
       
 
 
      
           
 
 

via: boston.com
 

For More Information:
World Animal Day – Belongs to Everyone                 World Animal Day Animated Screen Saver
Wildlife Conservation Society – Official Site            Endangered Species – at the NY Times
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Kent Beatty on October 25th, 2008

 
Kenny Price took a drive down Route 66 recently and visited Gary Turner’s Sinclair Station.  Kenny took the photo (above) of his 2008 Bullitt Mustang at Gary’s Station.

 

Gary Turner and his Parita Sinclair Station (built in 1930)
In the 30’s Route 66 was the busiest road in America.  The entire 2300 mile stretch from Chicago [...]

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Kent Beatty on October 23rd, 2008

Many of those who fought for us in WWII are gone, most of those still with us are in their eighties.  In this era of self-indulgence and expectation of entitlement along with an increasing lack of respect for the commitments and contributions of those who came before us the stories of those men and women [...]

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Kent Beatty on October 19th, 2008

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Kent Beatty on October 17th, 2008

The Singapore Grand Prix is a Formula One race staged in the Marina Bay area of Singapore.  Formula One, abbreviated as F1 is regarded as the pinnacle of Motorsports.  This 800th F1 race was held on September 28, 2008 and was also Formula One’s first night race.   F1 cars race at speeds as high as [...]

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Kent Beatty on October 17th, 2008

via:  National Geographic
2008 International Science and Engineering
Visualization Challenge Winners
 
The awards are sponsored jointly by the journal Science and the National Science Foundation 
 

First Place, Illustration: "Zoom Into the Human Bloodstream"
– by Linda Nye
Deft manipulation of perspective gives viewers a detailed look inside the human circulatory system.  This unusual view won artist Linda [...]

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Kent Beatty on October 15th, 2008

 
  
   
 

The chimp’s name is Anjana
She took the role of surrogate mother after twin white tiger cubs were separated from their mother at the Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species in South Carolina, USA.  These 23 day old cubs are named Mitra and Shiva.  Anjana has been their constant companion, feeding [...]

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Kent Beatty on October 14th, 2008

Light is all around us, but we often don’t really notice it.  Our eyes are sensitive to light but they also compensate, so we often don’t see things as they really are.   Film is sensitive to light, or in digital cameras it is the photoelectric light sensor known as a charge coupled device or CCD.  [...]

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Kent Beatty on October 12th, 2008

“Brie” by Henri Cartier-Bresson, June 1968, Brie, France

This photo, “Brie”, was taken by one of the great photographers of the 20th century - Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004), considered to be the father of modern photojournalism.
In an interview with the Washington Post in 1957 he said:
Photography is not like [...]

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Kent Beatty on October 12th, 2008

Romain Laurent, born 1983, based in Paris, is a French Artist and Photographer famous for his brilliant and sometimes off-beat work.  See more of his work at Toxel.

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Kent Beatty on October 12th, 2008

The island of St. Croix is part of the U.S. Virgin Islands.  I took this photo one morning back in February of 2006 with my trusty Nikon D70 (what a camera!)  Actually it’s a magical camera – many people who see photos that were taken with the D70 say “that camera takes great pictures.”   [...]

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Kent Beatty on October 12th, 2008

 
LIFE’s website has recently been relaunched as a place holder until it goes live in 2009.  During the 36 years that LIFE existed as a weekly publication, LIFE staff photographers took many thousands of photographs that are now in the LIFE archives.  Every week, LIFE.com will sift through their photo archives and publish a new [...]

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Kent Beatty on October 5th, 2008

Photo by Kenny Price

Kenny Price thinking of his 2008 Bullitt Mustang.  See this post for more on Kenny and his Bullitt Mustang.

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Kent Beatty on October 2nd, 2008

What lies at the end of your road?

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Kent Beatty on September 12th, 2008

PictoMio is Eye Candy for your Photos & Videos - Windows only Freeware
3D Accelerated browsing of your photos & videos!
Carousel View

Pictomio is a beautiful (and advanced!) image viewer, boasting several ways to view, organize, and browse your images and edit your metadata.

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Kent Beatty on August 30th, 2008

Papa John shot these photos on film in 1987, then later scanned the prints and made this panorama:
Click the four arrows to view FULL SCREEN

Jungfreau from PapaJohn on Vimeo.

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Kent Beatty on August 25th, 2008

See 15 Spectacular Lightning Photos Here

And here is a cool slidedeck of lightning photos:

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Kent Beatty on August 24th, 2008

Click the little slide screen to view Full Screen!

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Kent Beatty on August 15th, 2008

Process Enacted: by Jordan C Greenhalgh
Amazing Stop Motion Animation - Student Project Uses 987 Polaroids

Gradual Variation from single frames creates the illusion of motion.

Process Production Photos

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