Flickr Photo of the Day: snowflakes flutter

纷飞 / snowflakes flutter, originally uploaded by blackstation

Flickr Photo of the Day: December in Central Park

December in Central Park, originally uploaded by Thomas Hawk

Flickr Video of the Day: Night Run II, 1st Half

Night Run II, 1st Half (Houston Ship Channel), originally uploaded by OneEighteen

Flickr Photo of the Day: Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace, originally uploaded by dikaiteo

Flickr Photo of the Day: Eiffel Tilt-Shift II

This is a tilt-shift fake.

For those who are interested, here is the depth-map that I created and fed to the lens blur filter and here is a shot of the various layers of the mask before assigning gray-values..

There's also a version in my photostream with the focus set on the École Militaire made from the same depth-mask.

March 2008: A nice fella named Martin has made a comprehensive tutorial on how to achieve this effect

Eiffel Tilt-Shift II, originally uploaded by Hanna María & Arnar

Photo of the Day: Print Gallery (Escher)

Escher's Print Gallery (lithograph) (1956)

A picture of a picture which contains itself. Or is it a picture of a gallery which contains itself? Or of a town which contains itself? Or a young man who contains himself?

At first glance, it is easy to dismiss this piece of art. But on closer inspection, it brings to mind several provoking questions - what is that white patch in the centre, what is so unique about this work? To ponder for some time brings even more conundrums than answers - a memory trapped within a memory, reality encased in a fake-reality?

If you are inspired, here is a gallery of Escher's works.

On a side note, I have been browsing through Douglas Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid", which I chanced across while reading ReadWriteWeb.

Flickr Photo of the Day: Grandfather

Originally uploaded by [brett walker]

I realise that I have never featured black and white photos before, so here is one. This b/w photo reminds me of the poem Grandfather by Chandran Nair.

Flickr Photo of the Day: Roller coaster planet

...attached a Ferris wheel. At Tokyo Dome City.
It's stereographic projected version of this pano.

See where this picture was taken. [?]
[MAP by ALPSLAB]

Roller coaster planet, originally uploaded by heiwa4126

Flickr Photo of the Day: Entrance

Entrance, originally uploaded by Jordi (OWK)

Flickr Photo of the Day: Licorne 3

Beauty or beast?

This is the third picture of a series of the Licorne thermonuclear test in French Polynesia.

This is a scan of a (digitally restored) hardcopy of a picture taken by the French army which could be purchased in Tahiti at that time.

Licorne 3, originally uploaded by Pierre J.

Flickr Photo of the Day: Majestic Mountains Part II

In the spirit of our last post, we present to you this HDR panorama:

Again a shot of made during my skiing vacation. This was taken hand held.
Please take your time to view it Large on Black, it looks much better this way.

Majestic Mountains Part II, originally uploaded by chop1n

Flickr Photo of the Day: Morning Launch

'Morning Launch' Large On Black

A portion of the wintering population of Sandhill Cranes at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. I love the running crane with the bit of splash.

Morning Launch, originally uploaded by Fort Photo

Flickr Photo of the Day: What’s That?

A superparamagnetic fluid, otherwise known as a ferrofluid, in a dish over a neodymium magnet.

What's That (64) originally uploaded by jurvetson

Flickr Photo of the Day: Wood dowels for lanterns

everything changes in large numbers

Wood dowels for lanterns, originally uploaded by paul+photos=moody

Flickr Photo of the Day: The Writing Is On The Wall – If You Can See It, You Can’t Read It

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
-- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

I passed this sculpture so many times. You have to. It is made of stainless steel and placed in one of the busiest Wellington streets, in the perfect position to capture the colorful lights of the city after daylight, the nightglow of the capital.

The ‘Invisible City’, as it’s called, is the gigantic panel of Braille text that highlights the communication gap between those who can’t see and the rest of us.

The post is designed to remember all the folks, my countrymen and yours, the often invisible part of society, all those who finish schools, who work, play music, do sports, pay taxes, have and raise children, to the benefit of us all.

The Writing Is On The Wall – If You Can See It, You Can’t Read It, originally uploaded by Peter from Wellington

Flickr Photo of the Day: On the 1st of November

The Augur (pl: augures) was a priest and official in the classical world, especially ancient Rome. His main role was to interpret the will of the gods by studying the flight of the birds (flying in groups/alone, what noises they make as they fly, direction of flight and what kind of birds they are), known as "taking the auspices." The ceremony and function of the augur was central to any major undertaking in Roman society--public or private--including matters of war, commerce, and religion.

(from Wikipedia)

On the 1st of November, originally uploaded by xylonets is dead

Flickr Photo of the Day: This is becoming a habit

The lights began flashing and the bells started ringing just as I was driving past so I pulled off the road and took up my position again. This is my favourite of these bridge shots - it seems better from this side of the tracks ;-)
I'll soon be on waving terms with these train drivers, methinks...

It's a pity Jicin only has one decent railway bridge...

This is becoming a habit, originally uploaded by stevacek

Flickr Photo of the Day: Under The High Tech Canopy

Clark Quay, Singapore. This whole place is under an artifical canopy, protecting people from the rain and solar radiations. The temperature is controlled by those funny looking grey devices with holes (see note on the photo). These are mechanical fan systems which mimic wind in tropical environments.

Under The High Tech Canopy, originally uploaded by DanielKHC

Flickr Photo of the Day: Syntax Error - FUBAR

Another one for our bi-weekly assignment:
Some CSS code "fubar'd" - in this case thats "Folded Up Beyond All Recognition"

Syntax Error - FUBAR, originally uploaded by Simon Pow.

Flickr Photo of the Day: White Menorah

White Menorah, originally uploaded by oskay

A DIY mini-LED menorah for hanukkah. These are "regular" size, 5 mm diameter LEDs; they take up a lot more room than that tiny chip does.