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There’s a Hole in My Blog? – Holistic Blogging: Blog Tips
There’s a Hole in My Blog? – fill the hole in your blog and make it better!
Photography Links
- “This is not a normal assignment.”
- Pebbles From Paradise – lots of great stuff here.
- Beginner’s guide to composition
- Beauty Retouching
- Photoshop tutorials
- Start Your Own Photography Business from Home
- How I Recovered My Lost Digital Photos
- Macro photography with your digital camera – macro photography with a compact digital camera is so much easier than with a DSLR. You get fabulous depth of field and can generally focus closer. None of my lenses can focus closer than 11 inches. My FZ5 compact can focus at 1.9 inches!
TIME.com: The Day After Katrina Photo Essay
TIME.com: The Day After Katrina Photo Essay – 13 photos from Time.com. It continues in the Hurricane Crisis photo essay.
Edit in 2024: Obviously, the links above are long gone now. Here are the archive.org copies:
All About B&W
The New York Institute of Photography has great tips about B&W photography. It’s part 28 of the series and there’s plenty more!
2 Minute Photoshop Tricks
2 Minute Photoshop Tricks – nice idea! It’s an attractive format for presenting small tips. “2 minutes and I’ll know how to do this! Wow!”
The Irish Holocaust
The Irish Famine of 1847-48 resulted in a population decrease of millions. Before the Famine, there were some 10m people living here, afterwards only 6m.
The Irish Holocaust site has more.
Of the 100,000 who fled to Canada in 1847, only 60,000 were still alive one month after landing. Among the 40,000 dead was Henry Ford’s father’s mother who died en route from Cork or in quarantine on Quebec’s Grosse Ile.
View Rendered Source – Firefox Extension
The View Rendered Source Firefox extension looks awfully handy!
Satellites – through the countries of the USSR
When the USSR collapsed 15 countries were created. This is a series of photos and commentary by Jonas Bendiksen who has been a Magnum nominee since 2004 so you know his images are good.
The spoken commentary that runs through the slide show help to bring the photos to life.
Blogs Moved To New Server
This site and all the other blogs hosted at ILUG Blogs have been moved to a new machine! This one is a lot nippier and has a lot more RAM! Thank you Dell for donating the machine!
DNS will take a while to propogate so strange things may happen for a while, but Colm has a proxy running which should help a lot!