"We propose a method to realistically insert synthetic objects into existing photographs without requiring access to the scene or any additional scene measurements."

"It is without a doubt the Mail Rail sits at the throne, laughing maniacally at the puny adventurers unable to even stare it in the eyes without bursting into flames, the pinnacle of exploration in London, if not England. There is, and will never be anything like it again, its uniqueness "forever unrivalled, London’s final unconquered “Grail” now a slain beast.

"As I write this, there's an insane dust storm that's sweeping over Sydney. I found out about it by seeing a Twitter post from Dan Hill. I'm based in San Francisco but found it so extraordinary I decided to go and see if I could spot pictures coming in and make a little gallery out of them."

"Photo manipulation is a truly impressive art form. The following works show immense skill in blending multiple photos, effects and colors to produce awesome final compositions. I highly recommend that you check out the other works by these artists, and try your own hand at some photo manipulation."

"Since September 11, photographers have been stopped, harassed, and intimidated into handing over their personal property simply because they were photographing subjects that made other people uncomfortable, such as ship locks, trains, buildings, bridges, and bus stations. ... In the event you’re stopped by overzealous law enforcement or security officials attempting to enforce fictitious laws, I’ve designed these fictitious and official-looking Photographer’s Licenses."

"When you arrive on Peleliu, it doesn’t take long to start spotting the remains of the war."

"The Plenoptic camera is a novel single-lens camera that captures 3-D scene information. A plenoptic image is captured with a single lens and a lenticular lens array at the imaging plane. This image, like an insect's compound eye, consists of multiple sub-images each imaging the scene in front of it, in the plenoptic camera, the main lens aperture is imaged behind each lenticular element. ... [photos] Photographs digitally refocused at different depths, computed after a single exposure of our light field camera. The fourth image shows what a conventional camera would have produced."

"In this post I’ve found 10 DIY Flash and Lighting Hacks that put some of these lighting techniques within the grasp of the rest of us. Some are more involved than others but all are fun and will provide you with some new lighting gear to experiment with."

"So the Russians erected autonomous nuclear-powered lighthouses. Which worked great, until the collapse of the Soviet Union. In fact, they probably would have been fine after that, if people hadn’t looted them for copper and anything else that looked like it wasn’t nailed down too hard. Including, apparently, reactor shielding."

"An incredible photo of the Large Helical Device in Japan built to test plasma fusion confinement."

"the so-called Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) - the Windows error screen ... projected onto the roof of the National Stadium during the grand finale to the four-hour [Olympic opening] spectacular"

"Iran's state-run media agency has been accused before of having digitally manipulated images released to foreign media. This week, as word spread of purported missile tests in Iran, the validity of an image of four missiles shooting into the sky turned o

"At the center of spiral galaxy M81 is a supermassive black hole about 70 million times more massive than our sun."

"Creative Review commissioned photographer Jason Tozer to shoot these pictures on behalf of Sony using its new Alpha digital camera."

"This image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions of stars will be formed. The brightest and most compact of these star birth regions are called super star clusters."

"I've always been curious about stuffed animals that sing, dance, light up, or talk back. There must be a fascinating robot underneath the fur and fluff, right? So... I set out to discover what, exactly, these creatures are hiding.

"Mr Sokolov described the photo as political provocation and said he was pulling it, together with 16 other works, from a show at Paris's Maison Rouge exhibition hall."

"100 sources where you can find free stock images: and don’t worry — they’re all legal!"

"SKYplay depicts a composition dominated by use of the sky & real clouds at that moment with another object."

"The picture of 16-year-old Chang flashing a peace sign was taken in April by Alison's youth counsellor, who posted it that day on his Flickr page, according to Alison's brother, Damon. In the ad, Virgin Mobile printed one of its campaign slogans, "Dump y

"I am not appalled by photographs of this kind. What is appalling about two young people who are obviously very affectionate towards each other?"

"OMG DON’T JUMP! You have so much to live for …"

"looking at photos like these scares and fascinates me in equal doses. the sheer scale of these holes reminds you of just how tiny you are."

Craig sez, "I'd like to show-off some photographs I took in an abandoned train tunnel underneath Glasgow's botanic gardens."

An brief photo + audio slideshow of punk.

Now you can try out this resizing technique yourself with a new “Seam Carving” online application.

"The goal of OpenRAW is to encourage image preservation and give creative choice of how images are processed to the creators of the images. ... we advocate open documentation of information about the how the raw data is stored and the camera settings sele

As title.

A massive site with many photos and maps of Edinburgh, old and new.

Images of the Tokyo(?) flood protection system. MASSIVE.

Details on how to take long-exposure light writing photos.

My new desktop background, by Snarfy.

"Tallulah's is a unique combination of art and vintage images, with an extensive focus on interests for artists including classical art techniques and pose images taken from the La Belle Epoch period."

"Besides, there are a lot of good amateur photographers at Microsoft who would be thrilled to have their work displayed on millions of computers all over the world."

"Sometimes I get dangerous thoughts in my head, like 'I wonder what it would look like to see every ad in Times Square all on one page.'"

"The wallpapers listed below are sorted by the number of people who have added each one to their favorites list. Most popular desktops are on top."

Kawaii kettles!

Many informative articles on film and digital photography

A large collection of ballon art images.

Architecture and stuff.

Old superheroes.

Create your own optical illusion.

On October 24, 1946, not long after the end of World War II and years before the Sputnik satellite opened the space age, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and wonderful—the first pictures of Earth as seen from

Top 10 page of an image ratings site.

Photos of tourist spots plus souvenirs.

"This flash experiment loads a video, and displays it while reversing time and space in realtime."

Various examples of slitscan photography and video.

As the title.

"The other day while I was working in the yard my son urgently called to me. 'Dad, a praying mantis caught a hummingbird!'"

"Well, I have finally achieved my "digital dreams" by purchasing a small Kodak snapshot scanner. Before long the device was reduced to its basic components and soon thereafter was doing things its designers probably never foresaw as possibilities."

Toys and models shot in action poses.

A film from Dove depicting the manupluation of beauty for the sake of advertising.

"Buttons ... is a camera that will capture a moment at the press of a button. However, unlike a conventional analog or digital camera, this one doesn't have any optical parts ... the camera memorizes only the time and starts to continuously search on the

"I don't want to talk down the scientific work done here, but the Microsoft annoucement makes it sound (well, just look at who they imply in the video that their users are) like it would be a product for everyone to use within a year. It won't."

Yet another massive stock photo site.

A blog on 3D representations of urban environments.

Drive through the streets of San Francisco or Seattle with this Microsoft Local Virtual Earth preview.

ExtremeTech has rounded up their 10 favorite free plug-ins for tweaking digital images in Photoshop.

On July 1st, the community of Beloit, Wisconsin came together on the banks of the Rock River to recreate George Seurat's “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte" -- “Saturday in the Park with Friends".