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Cool Travel Panorama Photographs

By Chris Garrett | Published December 20, 2006

Check out these brilliant Panorama Photographs taken by Lee & Sachi during their world travels. It’s almost like being there but without the dodgy digestion, mosquitoes and sunburn, heh. Here is a small selection to show you what I mean …

Taj Mahal Panorama


Via: DarrenBarefoot

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Satellite Photography Update at Google Earth

By Chris Garrett | Published September 11, 2006

Satellite photography fans will be pleased to knjow Google Earth just had another big data update according to  Google Earth Blog. From the list of updates it seems mostly US-centric but other countries seem to have had improvements also including Japan, Netherlands, Germany, Austria and New Zealand.

I am pretty pleased one of my favourite Google Earth destinations, Calgary, is updated (allegedly) but a lot of British Columbia is still under cloud. I’m going to check my favourite destinations now…

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Flickr Flirts With Geotagging

By Chris Garrett | Published August 25, 2006

According to Utata Daily Ink Flickr might have Geotagging soon …

trange things are afoot over at flickr. Sudden apparitions.. Here one moment and gone the next. What manner of haunting is this? a “map” link above a photostream? longitude and latitude fields in the flickr organizr? All signs that flickr’s long rumored entry into Geotagging is fast approaching

Up to now I think I have only ever geotagged one photograph and it was such a pain never bothered since, if it’s easy it could be cool. Zooomr has something around maps I think?

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Goodbye to the 6×4 Photograph Print?

By Chris Garrett | Published February 23, 2006

It’s certainly something I have noticed and as the audience for this blog is mainly digital photographers I expect you have too. We rarely have our photographs developed nowadays. Out of the hundreds, probably thousands, of photographs I take, only a tiny fraction ever make it into the real world.

In fact the vast majority of the prints I do make go to relatives. We do have picture frames, and they are digital prints, but long gone are the days where we would have full albums of prints. Our last significant photo album probably dates back quite a few years, to the peak of my film slr picture taking.

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Making versus Taking Photographs

By Chris Garrett | Published January 17, 2006

What is the difference between making a photograph and taking one? It seems some photographers do not like the idea that an artist might stage a scene before capturing it, like the genre should be about recording what is there rather than “creating”.

NPR : Gregory Crewdson’s Photo Alchemy

Gregory Crewdson doesn’t so much take pictures as make them. Some critics say the photographer and artist is reinventing the genre by using film techniques to stage pictures.

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