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It is an elaborately crafted photographic film, extolled for its sharpness, vivid colors and archival durability. Yet die-hard fan Alex Webb is convinced the digital age soon will take his Kodachrome away.

Fox Field Air Fair 2008 is scheduled to run from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, so drive there, ride there, walk there, fly there. If you like flying and aircraft, you'll like the opportunity to see numerous aircraft up close. It's not an air show, mind you. The last air show at Gen. William J. Fox Airfield was in 1995. "We want people to know that Fox Field is here in the Antelope Valley and want people to see aircraft up close and personal," said pilot and aviation instructor Bob "Stambo" Stambovsky, spokesman for the event sponsored by the...

Jeffery Goldberg from The Atlantic Magazine is reporting that underhanded, leftist photographer Jill Greenberg has just been let go by her Representing Agency, the Vaughan Hannigan photo agency. This is a perfect example of a lesson of consequences. When Greenberg admitted that she lied and tricked John McCain so that she could manipulate his image to slander him and did so in the employ of The Atlantic Magazine, she lost any future work with that magazine for her unprofessional behavior. And now, more consequences have come her way. No one is, of course, saying that Jill Greenberg isn't allowed to...

After getting the shot for The Atlantic cover, "Greenberg asked McCain to “please come over here” for one more set-up before the 15-minute shoot was over. There, she had a beauty dish with a modeling light set up. “That’s what he thought he was being lit by,” Greenberg says. “But that wasn’t firing.” What was firing was a strobe positioned below him, which cast the horror movie shadows across his face and on the wall right behind him. “He had no idea he was being lit from below,” Greenberg says. And his handlers didn’t seem to notice it either. “I...

Brad Pitt is a photographer? What surprising news! Fashion Week Daily reports the new papa photographed Angelina Jolie and family last week at Chateau Miraval in the South of France for the cover of the November W.

What is it with photographers these days? Are they really all terrorists, or does everyone just think they are? Since 9/11, there has been an increasing war on photography. Photographers have been harrassed, questioned, detained, arrested or worse, and declared to be unwelcome. We've been repeatedly told to watch out for photographers, especially suspicious ones. Clearly any terrorist is going to first photograph his target, so vigilance is required. Except that it's nonsense. The 9/11 terrorists didn't photograph anything. Nor did the London transport bombers, the Madrid subway bombers, or the liquid bombers arrested in 2006. Timothy McVeigh didn't photograph...

Last Sunday I rode up to the Agriculture Center, to see the Spring plant show. I parked, got halfway across the lot, and realized I was about to hit the pavement. It looks like I'm going to get stuck to an oxygen hose again. I may also have to give up this cave, and move in with the kids. I'm welcome over there, but that's only because they ain't lived with me, recently, since I reached full curmudgeon status. The time to plan has come, anyway. I'll still have to take some pictures, no matter what!http://www.pbase.com/tsiya/root http://photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/ http://cabbagehammock.blogspot.com/

I'm pretty sure this is the Green Anole that I was hand feeding last year, he came right up beside me today. No yellowflies around, guess I'll have to go buy some crickets, LOL. Poor little guy ain't fat enough! http://www.pbase.com/tsiya/root http://photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/ http://cabbagehammock.blogspot.com/

Back down in the 50s, cold North wind, had to come inside and turn on the little heater. Everything was flapping in the wind, including the birds.

Least Sandpipers and Semipalmated Sandpipers can be hard to tell apart, just minor details, unless you can hold one down for a good look, LOL. The Semipalmated Plover looks sort of like a Killdeer, but has only a single black chest band, and the eyes are a different color. This is as scientific as I get, I just like to watch them. http://www.pbase.com/tsiya/root http://photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/ http://cabbagehammock.blogspot.com/

Watching the hummingbirds today got me thinking about Dollie Parton's song, Coat of Many Colors. Back through the years I go wonderin once again Back to the seasons of my youth I recall a box of rags that someone gave us And how my momma put the rags to use There were rags of many colors Every piece was small And I didnt have a coat And it was way down in the fall Momma sewed the rags together Sewin every piece with love She made my coat of many colors That I was so proud of As she sewed,...

The Hummingbirds are settled in and used to me again, I can move around the yard and they accept me as part of the landscape. There is a Wren building a nest in the rafters of the old shed, I'm hoping she will settle down and pose for me too. I really hate to go to town this time of year, afraid I'll miss something. http://www.pbase.com/tsiya/root http://photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/ http://cabbagehammock.blogspot.com/

A Christian law firm will appeal a ruling by the New Mexico Human Rights Commission fining a photographer who refused to take photos of a homosexual commitment ceremony.  Elaine Huguenin and her husband Jon, who co-own Elane Photography in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are both Christians. So when a lesbian couple asked them to photograph their "commitment ceremony" in Taos, the Huguenins politely refused. In response, Vanessa Willock filed a complaint with the New Mexico Human Rights Commission claiming the Huguenins discriminated against her because of her "sexual orientation." On Wednesday, the Commission found the Christian couple guilty of discrimination under...

I often hear someone say, I hate those birds, they are messy, nasty, greedy, etc, funny thing, the birds with the most human traits often top the hate chart! Grackles aren't universally loved, Pelicans are, it seems, doesn't matter to me, I don't have time to act stupid. If I had to be a bird, a Grackle would be just fine! Pelicans are easier to photograph, but Grackles have more fun!

These don't live in a park. No telling what the genetic history of these birds is, but they are pretty. http://www.pbase.com/tsiya/root http://photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/ http://cabbagehammock.blogspot.com/

The old Catholic Mission Nombre di Dios sits on the bank of Hospital Creek, in St. Augustine. There is a small tidal basin there traditionally known as the "Holy Hole", what else? It is a beautiful, peaceful place to spend an afternoon. When the tide begins to rise the Herons and Egrets show up, and wait for fish. This Great Blue Heron was doing pretty good.http://www.pbase.com/tsiya/root http://photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/ http://cabbagehammock.blogspot.com/

We revealed the amazing story of how four tiger cubs were captured on special cameras in logs carried by elephants - giving the most intimate insight into their early lives ever recorded. Now, we show for the first time other creatures of the jungle caught in this extraordinary - and pioneering - way. Cheeky langur monkeys, a rare sloth bear, spotted deer and a leopard with her cub are just some of the other animals that film-maker John Downer came across in his fascinating experiment.

An astronaut, Don Pettit, has put together a 10-minute movie of what cities look like at night as seen from space. He shot these images while he was Science Officer aboard ISS Expedition 6 about 5 years ago. He recently posted this on YouTube.This video "Cities at Night; an Orbital Tour Around the World" is a video made from digital still images.A bit of trivia.... most of the music during the movie is from royalty-free clips from Adobe Auditions, but for the Australian sequences, Don played his own didgeridoo that he had with him in space aboard ISS. As you...

The Light Erik Lewandowski Morning Flyout Jim Fenton Happy Easter Jacqueline Olexa Spring Joeri De Schutter Red and White Tulips Dale Crawford Logan at Easter Chris OMeara Lily Olga Gerasimova Spring... Katerina Lomonosov day of rain Beate Miedl-Rissner Untitled Carlos Barriuso Amo Danii and bunny Lola Martin Wilmsen Garza real Carlos Barriuso Amo Songs of Spring Jim Fenton Natalya Carson Exposed Mia Friedrich Layla seeking (and catching) easter eggs Gerard Maas UKRANIAN EASTER EGGS george mclean The Orchard Une femme avec un bycicle Andrew Maidanik SnowflakesAndrew Campbell Easter Sunday in Quito Ricardo Salguero surrounded by spirits Stanislav Volgushev Symmetry...

Hi Just curious if any other freepers have the photography bug... didn't seen any threads about it in search. Link/post some good shots if you want to share. So heres some of mine, I shoot a bit of everything. You can click for bigger sizes

Identifying Manipulated Images New tools that analyze the lighting in images help spot tampering. By Erica Naone   True or false? The tool used above spots whether an image has been manipulated by modeling the lighting in the image based on an analysis of visible surfaces. To analyze an image, a user indicates the surfaces to consider using contour lines (shown above in white). The system checks for inconsistencies in the way that those surfaces are lit. Credit: Micah Kimo Johnson, Hany Farid Photo-editing software gets more sophisticated all the time, allowing users to alter pictures in ways both...

Ashley Qualls doesn't sound like a typical high school student. Maybe that's because the 17-year-old is the CEO of a million-dollar business. Ashley is the head of whateverlife.com, a website she started when she was just 14 — with eight dollars borrowed from her mother. Now, just three years later, the website grosses more than $1 million a year, providing Ashley and her working class family a sense of security they had never really known. It all started with capitalism 101, the law of supply and demand. Ashley became interested in graphic design just as the online social networking craze...

I used my little antique Olympus C-2100UZ today, still going strong at 8 years old. The C-2100 was the first of the ultrazooms, only 2MP, but a very capable little camera. A Cardinal and some Goldfinches. http://www.pbase.com/tsiya/root http://photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/ http://cabbagehammock.blogspot.com/

The first camera in the room grabbed my face, put it on a screen and then began a computer analysis. It correctly identified me as male. Then the camera focused and followed my eyes, with a little box appearing around each one on the screen. Below the image, a meter displayed each emotion that the computer had detected: Happy. Sad. Angry. Surprised. A trace of a smile triggered the happy meter; a raised eyebrow sent the anger meter skyrocketing. Some tic was registered as sadness. A second camera went after solid data from the face. It measured distances from jaw...

In the mid 50s and sunny today, just about right. The Ibis are immature, white plumage just starting to appear. The Brown Pelicans are in breeding plumage.

This Little Blue Heron was working along the bank catching small crabs today.

The company that pioneered instant photography is getting out of the film business to focus on digital imaging. Polaroid says it will close its two remaining film manufacturing plants in Massachusetts. The facilities in Norwood and Waltham employed about 150 people and made large-format film for commercial use.

For those FReepers that need a break today from all the political hoopla these links will take you to some beautiful photographs. Here and here. On the main page, here, you can click on either photo to see more.

I've had several Freepers ask about a wildlife photography ping list,if you're interested send me a PM.

Top of the food chain in my yard, this female Red shouldered hawk sees everything that moves. I can get within 10 feet, haven't tried to get closer. I've been watching her for about 3 years, and she watches back.

Started cloudy, just after noon the Sun came busting through. It wasn't a day to be indoors.

The other day I posted a thread regarding an incident that occurred with an MHP officer at a traffic scene. I finally posted the video on YouTube I tried to be respectful. I know that the officer was trying to be diplomatic despite being in the wrong. At the end of it all, the traffic scene was really boring and I would have stopped filming on my own, but it gets my neck hairs up when told to stop doing a constitutionally protect activity -- especially one so important to ensuring accuracy. Anyhow - I sent a letter to the...

Red Shouldered Hawk, he showed up right on schedule this year. Cool thing is, he remembered me, I can get up close with the camera.

Pupils posing for school photo forced to line up according to skin colourLast updated at 23:04pm on 23rd October 2007  Children were left in tears after they were separated according to their skin colour for school photos.  More than 100 boys and girls aged from seven to 11 were lined up from the fairest skinned to the darkest. But the segregation left several of the pupil so upset they cried to their parents when they got home. One angry mother said: "My 10-year-old was told to go further back in the line as she was not white enough. She...

HANOVER, N.H. — As Hany Farid sat in his office here at Dartmouth College on a recent morning, he fiddled with his laptop and cracked disconcerting little jokes. “Don’t ever send me a photograph of yourself,” said Dr. Farid, head of the Image Science Laboratory at Dartmouth. “I’ll do the most terrible things to it.” Dr. Farid, a 41-year-old engineer, is a founder of a subdiscipline within computer science: digital forensics. Most days, he spends his time transforming ordinary images into ones with drastic new meanings. Click, goes his mouse. Courtney Love has joined Grandpa at the family barbecue. Click....

Joe O’Donnell’s glowing legacy outlived him by less than a week. The man recalled by some as “The Presidential Photographer” with a knack for having a camera to his eye at just the right moment, became instead someone described as a fraud who hijacked some of the 20th century’s most famous images and claimed them as his own. Mr. O’Donnell, a retired government photographer, died on Aug. 9 in Nashville at age 85. Obituaries published nationwide, including one in The New York Times on Aug. 14, praised his body of work over several presidential administrations, most of them singling out...

I know many people have collected various graphics and images concerning 9/11. I wanted to share a few that I have found, and would like to invite anyone else who wants to share a thread to do so.

The St. John's County Agriculture Center is about 3 miles up the road from home, almost like having a private garden. Most days I have the place to myself, always something to pose for a camera.

Since 1977, Camilo Jose Vergara has been using photography to document the the transformation of urban landscapes in America. He describes his approach as interdisciplinary, using techniques from fields that include sociology, architecture, photography, urban planning, history and anthropology. Vergara has focused upon the gradual erosion of urban neighborhoods through neglect and abandonment, often photographing the same structures repeatedly over decades in order to capture this process of of urban decay. The photography presented here is from Vergara’s project entitled Invincible Cities.

Maria Sanchez Lake, near downtown St. Augustine, Florida.

Cranked the motorscooter before first light and headed for the lake, and just waited. There is one short span of time when the light comes alive, sometimes I catch it.

It's incredible what you can find in an ordinary garden if you look closely enough. Amateur photographer Brian Valentine specialises in making the everyday look exotic with the wonders of macro photography, using special lens to magnify his subjects

Welcome to the Singles Thread! Friends, Freepers and Family! I would fain bid thee felicitations. Forget your fatigue, and form freely forthwith for fatuous fun, falderal and frivolous flapdoodle on this febrile and fulgourous Friday. Our motif is Fotography. I am your facilicator, and will furnish some favorite fotographs to start us off. Forgive my facinorous facundity. And fear not the fhilistines who consider threads like this to be "Floccinaucinihilipilification." Also! Please take some time to donate to Free Republic in return for all the valuable services we enjoy here!

The Great Crested Flycatchers are feeding a nest full of Chicks, it is amazing to see how many bugs they catch. I'm hoping to see the babies learn to fly.

When, more than 70 years ago, William Beebe became the first scientist to descend into the abyss, he described a world of twinkling lights, silvery eels, throbbing jellyfish, living strings as “lovely as the finest lace” and lanky monsters with needlelike teeth. “It was stranger than any imagination could have conceived,” he wrote in “Half Mile Down” (Harcourt Brace, 1934). “I would focus on some one creature and just as its outlines began to be distinct on my retina, some brilliant, animated comet or constellation would rush across the small arc of my submarine heaven and every sense would be...

Out riding the motorscooter, and found this Osprey with a fresh catch. This is inside the St. Augustine city limits.

I have a nice canvas chair for the yard, but I usually just end up on the porch steps. I think this pair of Ruby Throats are same ones that spent last spring and summer here. They sure know their way around. The red blaze on the males throat only shows on frontal shots, from the side it registers as black.

Sometimes the line to get into the Imax theater at the American Museum of Natural History seems long enough to stretch all the way out to other planets. Now it does. This weekend “Beyond,” a one-year exhibition of more than 30 large-format photographs of Earth’s planetary neighbors, opens in the museum’s Imax Gallery, a corridor by the theater that is also a pathway to the Rose Center for Earth and Space. Michael Benson, a writer, photographer and filmmaker, created the stunning series of pictures from the enormous archives of images taken over the years by robotic explorers of the solar...

When a celebrity appears in a fan-magazine photo, there's no telling whether the person ever wore the clothes depicted or visited that locale. The picture may have been "photoshopped," we say, using a word coined from the name of the popular image-editing software, Adobe Photoshop. In one new aspect of computational photography, a dome contains hundreds of precisely positioned flash units. A high-speed camera captures a frame as each flash fires in sequence. Computers can then relight the scene as they reconstruct it.Debevec/University of Southern California But today's image processing is just a prelude. Imagine photographs in which the lighting...