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It’s amazing how close you can get to your subject with extension tubes attached to the lens. This is my cat Angel. Her eyes are pretty large and bulge out of her head a bit. I’d say the cornea from this angle looks like a small atmosphere of her eye.
I thought our homepage was starting to get a little lonely. I caught this guy from a distance.
A seagull shot along the Raritan River… there’s no more birds to take photos of other than the usual mallards, geese and gulls…
Last week, Adobe released a Photoshop application for the iPhone. Not only is it one of the best photo editing application I’ve personally tried – it’s 100% FREE! With the touch-and-drag of your finger, you can edit and add numerous effects to photos that are on your iPhone or, if you have one, on your photoshop.com account. If you don’t have a photoshop.com account, you can sign up for 2GB of free space for photo storage and sharing. You do not need an account to use the application, but it still can be good to have.
Features include cropping, rotating, flipping; adjustable exposure, saturation and tint; filters for black & white, sketch, soft focus, vibrant, vignette, rainbow, a border… among others. You can also undo and redo your effects. Edit both portrait and landscape photos – the app will flip with how you hold your phone. Once you’re done editing, choose to save the photo to your phone or to your photoshop.com account.
It doesn’t hurt to try a free app!
Photoshop.com Mobile App for the iPhone
Download from iTunes
On Saturday, I visited Johnson Park in Piscataway. There’s plenty of birds hanging around the canal and also a small “zoo” that has farm animals and some local wildlife. The zoo could shape up a bit (cages are old and rusty, foxes and coyotes have no room for play) but the natural parts of the park were pretty nice.
This photo is taken from a small pond that feeds from the canal. I spotted this young night heron sleeping along the coast.
Snow leopards are one of my favorite big cats (the other being the Cheetah). I was very happy to see that, along with the release of the Snow Leopard OS X, Apple is also encouraging and donating to snow leopard conservation.
How are they helping?
To read more about it, visit the Snow Leopard Blog, part of the Snow Leopard Trust website.
Two weeks ago MIT students Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh have successfully taken photographs of earth from space – on a $150 budget.
The two students filled a weather balloon with helium and attached a styrofoam beer cooler underneath which carried a cheap Canon A470 compact camera. Hand warmers kept everything from freezing in the low temperatures. The camera was rigged with the CHDK open-source firmware so that it could take photographs every five seconds on an eight gig memory card. To locate the camera on landing, the students also included a pre-paid cell phone equipped with a GPS.
This photo was taken at 93,000 feet above the earth (this is still inside our atmopshere – about 18 miles shy of reaching “space”)
To read more about how this was accomplished visit the project’s website: Project Icarus.
The structure of a mantis’s compound eyes creates an illusion that looks like a pupil – it always seems as though the mantis is staring straight at you, no matter what angle you’re looking from.
