srika

pretty crazy - taken in 1918


FACTS:
Base to Shoulder: 150 feet
Right Arm: 340 feet
Widest part of arm holding torch: 12 1/2 feet
Right thumb: 35 feet
Thickest part of body: 29 feet
Left hand length: 30 feet
Face: 60 feet
Nose: 21 feet
Longest spike of head piece: 70 feet
Torch and flame combined: 980 feet
Number of men in flame of torch: 12,000
Number of men in torch: 2,800
Number of men in right arm: 1,200
Number of men in body, head and balance of figure only: 2,000
Total men: 18,000

einsatz

That's neat.

srika

http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/05/22...ession-photos/

Library of Congress debuts iconic Great Depression photos

slideshow:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library...41455384/show/


The Library of Congress has created a remarkable set, FSA/OWI Favorites, which includes the “Migrant Mother,” by Dorothea Lange, the original film negative of which is housed at the Library of Congress. The Library preserves Lange’s original, and makes the digitized photo freely available. “Migrant Mother” is part of a landmark photo documentary project based in the U.S. Resettlement Administration, the Farm Security Administration (FSA), and later the Office of War Information (OWI). The most active years were 1935-1943, and the collection was transferred to the Library of Congress in 1944.
The Library of Congress’ newest set features 10 of the most frequently requested photos plus staff picks to introduce you to the vast archive of about 170,000 negatives and 107,000 prints of life in America during the Great Depression and World War II. Do not miss a visit to the FSA/OWI Collection in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) at LOC to explore more of these amazing photos by gifted photographers who worked with 35mm and large format sheet film. Please go to the Library of Congress’ blog post for much more information and insight.
If you have never seen these, don’t pass up a moment to experience them.


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Billiam

Completely coincidental to TS_eXpeed’s recent time lapse post, I just came across this on one of my space nerd forums. I went to the guy’s site but I couldn’t find anywhere where he says how his 5D is “modified.”

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Mizouse

wow pretty cool

srika

thats a bit mind-blowing... damn.

TommySalami

not mind-blowing, but a good picture I think

http://www.flickr.com/photos/flaneur...n/photostream/

srika

srika

Billiam

^^^That's some super serious FPS there!

And on a semi-related note, while watching coverage of this past weekend's NHRA race, one of the Pro Stock teams had set up a small tripod on the track surface just off the rear corner of the car at the starting line. The TV guys even took a closeup of the LCD screen. I could easily make out 'Exilim' under the screen so I assume the team was using one of the high speed Casio models to record their launches.

Mizouse

wow, pretty cool, you can see it spread like fireworks and whatever hits the ground first is where the bolt hits.

srika

photos from Iran's disputed election

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/200..._election.html

einsatz

If you go to flickr, and search for "iran" and sort by most recent, you'll get TONS of amazing phone pics. You get the sense of an all-out revolution. It's amazing.

srika

Long exposure foto of the lgm118a "Peacekeeper" ICBM delivery system (aka MX missile).

stogie1020

^ wow, haven't seen that in a long time! Used to be my wallpaper a while back.

Awesome shot.

srika

1600x1200:
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/image..._1600-1200.jpg

video along similar lines:
http://gizmodo.com/5306074/cool-time...747-mothership

srika

check out the notes on this pic.. lol

http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerho...um/2980051095/

srika

Nikon Photo Contest International 2008-2009 Award Winners

http://imaging.nikon.com/products/im...2009/award.htm

AMGala

iTrader: (4)

Wow there are some really cool photos in that contest!

#1 STUNNA

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sierraromeo/3839183170/sizes/l/

stogie1020

AZ Highways Photo Edition is on the news stands now.

Here are a couple from the online gallery:

http://www.arizonahighways.com/stati...m?contentID=53

jupitersolo

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/

imj0257

iTrader: (1)

I love this pic from National Geographic. Currently my wallpaper on work comp.

JLatimer

I stalk the strobist blog from time to time... Check out the latest post. The link isn't so much a picture as it is 16000 pictures...

They filmed a music vid with a 10fps Canon 1D. The crazy thing is they lit it with strobes at 10fps. An eerie feel for an eerie song.

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2009/09...-vid-shot.html

uzzmaan

Picture my brother took on his honeymoon in the Maldives.



http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarif

nokiaman

^

imj0257

iTrader: (1)

Great pic.

srika

check this out!

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/...-money-budget?

Billiam

^^I saw that yesterday. It's certainly a very tempting project for people to attempt. That said, doesn't the FAA generally "have issues" with people putting things up in the air above a certain altitude?

stogie1020

Payload under 4lbs is OK.

srika

awesome writeup and story and pictures.. don't click if you don't like bats.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...rden-pond.html

waTSX

Fabulous shot.

Dan Martin

Very nice! That same guy has done some amazing work in the past with shooting flying bees and other insects around his garden with similar, but more portable equipment. This is the first time I've seen his bat photos.

srika

hey are there any pictures of the NASA rocket launch that made "strange lights" in the sky on Saturday? I couldn't find any - thx

Billiam

The 9/23 Australian dust storm courtesy of the Boston Globe.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/200...australia.html

Billiam

Took a look in the usual places and haven't found anything. It was called the Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE) and was launched on a sounding rocket from NASA's Wallops Island facility on the Virginia coast.

If you want to see what they were trying to create, just do an image search for "noctilucent clouds".

srika

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lie0diOhfdg

Billiam

Cameroon—At the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center, more than a dozen residents form a gallery of grief, looking on as Dorothy—a beloved female felled in her late 40s by heart failure—is borne to her burial.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/vi...ons-earth-2009

srika

some nice stuff in there - esp enjoyed the moth

einsatz

Yeah, National Geographic photographers are sort of ok