Here Be Treasures

Cambridge University Photo Competition

Monday, August 10th, 2009 | photography | No Comments

The Engineering Department at Cambridge University have a photography competition every year for students and staff. They take some amazing photos.

Animoto—Your Photos To Videos

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | cool tool, photography, video | No Comments

Animoto.com takes your photos and makes a hip and happening video out of them. Simply upload your photos and choose your settings and you have a funky video.

Photos That Changed The World

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 | photography | No Comments

‘Nuf said, though the squeamish and puritanical amongst you might want to give it a miss.

http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/

(via Kottke)

Flickr Commons

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 | photography | No Comments

Flickr Commons is a Flickr collection of public photo collections. The photos are weird and wonderful, and all are public property.

The Rasterbator

Thursday, March 26th, 2009 | cool tool, photography | No Comments

The cheekily named “Rasterbator” is an online tool that will convert an uploaded photo into a set of images that you can then piece together to make a giant image. Done well the results are fantastic… As you can see above, it makes a great wall decoration.

Portrait Train-Wrecks

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 | humor, photography | No Comments

Looking at home snaps and family portraits can be amongst the most tedious of tasks that a person will ever endure in their life. Think about excited parents displaying the latest family shot, or the co-worker who shows you their precious wallet photos. It’s torturous. However, give it a few years and those very-same photo-implements of torture become more statements about the prevailing portrait and fashion style than objects of (dis-)affection. Sexy People holds a collection of single, sibling and family portraits that draw the viewer in. I find a moribund fascination within me wanting to see more and more of these portrait train-wrecks.

Cara Barer Photographer

Saturday, November 8th, 2008 | photography | No Comments

Cara Barer takes photos of books, but with a difference.

Most of the books in her series go through a soaking and drying process that turns the book into a beautiful disaster.

A Whole Lot of Hubble

Saturday, November 1st, 2008 | photography | No Comments

Although troubled by manufacturing mistakes and service problems, the Hubble Telescope has brought us many beautiful pictures of outer space. Here is a link to what is considered the top 100 images from Hubble. You can also download the images at full resolution in a 1.4Gb zip file, if you feel so inclined.

Flickr Mashup—Colr Pickr

Friday, October 10th, 2008 | photography | No Comments

Jim Bumgardner, whose computer-generated work we shall revisit in later posts, put together this color picker/Flickr mashup. Choose a color from the picker to get up to twelve photos which feature it as their main color. It’s mesmerising and really appeals to the designer in me.