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Noah Strycker is a penguin researcher spending 3 months in Antarctica at a penguin colony. He has a blog which he’s updating every couple days while he’s there. It’s good reading for a lazy morning with a cup of coffee, and some interesting wildlife photos to boot. There aren’t that many posts, so I’d suggest [...]

If you don’t read the Astronomy Picture of the Day every day, you really ought to. Amazing pictures, and a quite educational to boot. Anyway, last Saturday’s picture (which I would have missed if I hadn’t been going back through the RSS feed) was one of the coolest I’ve seen on there in a long [...]

DPReview has posted a typically excellent article explaining the various High-ISO/low-light modes found on compact digital cameras these days. It’s a must-read for anybody who’s looking for a digital point & shoot or who may be in the future. The executive summary is that camera manufacturer marketing departments are dirty, dirty liars, and that these [...]

This article from the Washington Post is well worth checking out. It’s a bit of a long read, but I’d highly recommend it. It raises some interesting questions about art and its place in modern society, but I think the biggest one is “would I have stopped?”

Photographer Michael Poliza has posted a Flickr set of photographs from his helicopter trip over Europe and Africa. There’s some very cool stuff in there; it’s well worth checking out. Be sure to click on the “all sizes” link for each photo, as a lot of them really benefit from being viewed as large as [...]

Hans Nyberg has combined high-res scans of photos taken on the Apollo missions with modern digital image processing techniques to create scrollable, zoomable 360º panoramas of the lunar landing sites. Requires a recent version of QuickTime, and I’m sure they’ll take forever to load on slow internet connections, but it’s well worth it in my [...]

If you’ve never dropped and lost a lens cap, lens hood, eyepiece, or something worse, you’re probably not out there taking enough pictures. There are some places though where you really don’t want to drop your camera, like, say, orbiting the Earth. Don’t think they’ll be getting that one back. On that topic, here’re a [...]

I’m not sure why it’s taken me so long to link this site up, but there’s a group of people trying to get Wilco to come to Fort Wayne and play at the Embassy on their next tour. I’m usually not all that enthusiastic about online petitions, but in this case I think it may [...]