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Vinatge photobooth photos
4 AprWith the digital photography revolution photographs are becoming relics. I stumbled on this site and its small but charming collection of found vintage photo booth photos.
Go visit the original site, www.houseofmirthphotos.blogspot.com/
2012 Miss Fidget Calendar
5 JanNo need to go to the mall for a deeply discounted kittens of Cambodia calendar, Miss Fidget’s calendar is finally done.
Momento Mori is a latin phrase, not a Chinese restaurant.
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Scary Hurricane Irene photos
31 AugThis is an excerpt of a post at buzzfeed. See the whole list of 25 images here.
Greenwich, Connecticut.
Princeton, New Jersey Transit train station.
Route 12 is broken in 5 places on Hatteras Island, N.C. About 2,500 people are stuck on Hatteras Island because of this
Ocean City, Maryland
Windham, NY
Harwington, Connecticut
Route 100 in Vermont
Destroyed water tower in Cary, North Carolina
Billy Stinson comforts his daughter, Erin, as they sit on the steps where their cottage once stood in Nags Head, North Carolina. The home, built in 1903 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was destroyed by Hurricane Irene.
Hurricane caused flooding but not sharks in street
29 AugHurricane Irene just blasted the Eastern time zone with wind and rain causing massive flooding. However, it did not cause the streets of Puerto Rico to flood so much that sharks swam in the street. The below photo is fake.
Good luck to everybody out there drying out and recovering. For all those groaning about the “hype” be glad your roof is on, your basement is dry and your trees are upright. Because despite all the advance planning and preparations, many people died during the “epic rainstorm.”
Fake photo of shark swimming in street in flooded Puerto Rico. It has been sourced as a user-submitted photo to Channel 7 in Miami, which broadcast it.
Source photo from a 2005 issue of Africa Geographic.
Hurricane Irene: ‘Photo’ of shark swimming in street is fake
By Sarah Anne Hughes | www.washingtonpost.com | 08/26/2011
Holy moly! A (fake) picture of a shark swimming on a Puerto Rico street! (Reddit) A photo of a shark swimming down a Puerto Rico street flooded by Hurricane Irene has been making the rounds online. It was posted on Reddit, picked up by Web sites and broadcast on a TV station in Miami, which is not surprising. I mean, a shark on the streets! This seems too cool to be true!
That’s because it is.
Google “shark,†and up pops a great photo of a shark stalking a kayak from a 2005 issue of Africa Geographic. Commenters on Reddit, where the photo seems to have originated, quickly noted this and the very real similarities between the two sharks (note the small circular shadow just below the shark’s belly.)
Monkey’s accidental self portraits
25 JulThis makes me so happy. I would like to see the other hundred of images, too.
Monkey swipes Canon DSLR for self-portraits
Mike Flacy | July 6, 2011 | www.digitaltrends.com
A professional wildlife photographer got quite a surprise when a curious primate took several hundred self portraits with his equipment.
David J. Slater, a native of Gloucestershire, was wandering around Indonesia in a national park when a mischievous black-crested macaque snatched his camera equipment and became enthralled with the reflection in the camera lens, as reported by The Telegraph. Slater shoots wildlife with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and Canon EOS 40D, thus the DSLR lens was large enough for a clear reflection.
Leopard attacks 11 in India
21 JulWow. Great photography. Sad story.
A leopard attacks a forest guard at Prakash Nagar village near Salugara, on the outskirts of Siliguri, India, Tuesday, July 19, 2011. The leopard strayed into the village area and mauled several villagers, including three guards, before being caught by forest officials, according to news reports. The leopard, which suffered injuries caused by knives and batons, died later in the evening at a veterinary center. The forest guard being attacked was injured. Photo: AP / AP
In this photo taken Tuesday, July 19, 2011, a leopard prepares to attack a forest guard, left, at Prakash Nagar village near Salugara, on the outskirts of Siliguri, India. The leopard strayed into the village area and mauled several villagers, including three guards, before being caught by forest officials, according to news reports. The leopard, which suffered injuries caused by knives and batons, died later in the evening at a veterinary center. INDIA OUT Photo: AP / AP
In this photo taken Tuesday, July 19, 2011, a leopard runs to escape after attacking a forest guard at Prakash Nagar village near Salugara, on the outskirts of Siliguri, India. The leopard strayed into the village area and mauled several villagers, including three guards, before being caught by forest officials, according to news reports. The leopard, which suffered injuries caused by knives and batons, died later in the evening at a veterinary center. INDIA OUT
In this photo taken Tuesday, July 19, 2011, a leopard attacks a forest guard as another runs for cover at Prakash Nagar village near Salugara, on the outskirts of Siliguri, India. The leopard strayed into the village area and mauled several villagers, including three guards, before being caught by forest officials, according to news reports. The leopard, which suffered injuries caused by knives and batons, died later in the evening at a veterinary center. INDIA OUT Photo: AP / AP
Leopard mauls 11 in fierce fight at Indian village
July 21, 2011 | www.greenwichtime.com
KOLKATA, India (AP) — A snarling leopard mauled 11 people in an Indian village and terrorized wildlife officials trying to drive it away before it was tranquilized and died of injuries from the fierce showdown.
Forestry officials were forced to flee, dive for cover and even climb up on a jeep to escape the adult, male leopard’s attacks in West Bengal state.
At one point, the big cat leapt through the air, fangs bared, and tackled a man, clutching him in its giant paws as it knocked him off the wall he was standing on.
The wildlife officials — wearing protective helmets and carrying batons and tranquilizer guns — had hoped to drive the cat into a nearby wildlife sanctuary after it wandered into the village near Siliguri, about 373 miles (600 kilometers) from Kolkata.
But the leopard stood its ground, crouching on a wall, hissing and attacking those who came near.
It injured six villagers, a policeman and four forest guards before being hit with a tranquilizer gun Tuesday. The people are recovering from their injuries, mostly swipes from the cat’s claws.
Forest official Dharma Dev Rai says villagers used knives, stones and batons to beat back the cat.
The cat died within hours after the showdown, and a post mortem is being conducted.
Leopards are protected in India, though more are straying into villages for food.
Vintage Pepsi ad – for mental patients
13 MayI found this ad here, “Mental Hospitals” magazine ads.
“All of these are from “Mental Hospitals” magazine, published by the American Psychiatric Association, dated 1956.”
Trove of pre-revolutionary Russian images found
11 MayBelow is an in-depth article about the traveler who took the pictures and a letter he sent home about his trip. Here is a link to a flickr set of the found and previously unpublished images. What a wonderful time machine they are.
Courtesy of Andrew Howe V
Courtesy of Andrew Howe V
Old Moscow Photos Reappear
By Jonathan Earle | 10 May 2011 | www.themoscowtimes.com
When Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings, the millionaire founder of petrochemical giant Union Carbide, took his prize-winning trotters on a goodwill tour of Eastern Europe in 1909, he brought along horse-racing journalist Murray Howe to chronicle the trip in weekly dispatches to The Horse Review magazine.
In addition to being an able and witty journalist — his wry trotting classics “Stable Conversation†and “The Trotting Horse Excuse Book†are still read in trotting circles — Howe was also an amateur photographer.
Howe snapped more than 400 photographs in Moscow and St. Petersburg with his handheld Graflex camera, a state-of-the-art device that allowed its user to shoot without a tripod. His photographs of pedestrians, street venders and aristocrats are rare glimpses of everyday life before the upheavals of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution — and sparked huge interest in Russia among history buffs and local museums.
Christchurch’s improvised toilets
10 MarThe devastating Christchurch earthquakes have resulted in a few chuckles, like the man who auctioned off the boulder that demolished his home. This gallery web site documents the improvised outhouses of urban and suburban Christchurch. It makes one wonder what they would do if faced with a similar disaster that among other things disrupted your sewer service.
The sheer variety of facilities is amazing.Check the site for more.
Good luck Christchurchians, hang in there, we haven’t forgotten you.
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2010′s top Photoshop disasters
10 JanThese images are taken from the fine site www.psdisasters.com, and clicking the link will take you to the original page. What I’ve featured here is but an excerpt.
Some of these are sooo bad, it is almost unthinkable they would make it to print.
Dislocated hip.
What the hell is wrong with her neck? Oh yeah, it's normal sized, it's her freaky tiny body that is scary.
This is a campfire story...."All of a sudden out of no where he got strangled and heard MY ARM...GIVE ME BACK MY ARM"
Another model with a dislocated hip.
Who needs to hire proof readers or writers?
This image needs no caption.
Instruction booklet for the already gifted.
It is possible that this poor starved waif could not move her head.
This garment will shrink your body-seriously.
How many hands does she have? I know an instructional book she may like.
Political jockeying. Actually politics funded much of the early work in retouching.
Her legs go right down to the floor and halfway to the basement.