Cameras

The Human Eye Looks Like A Crater

This is a stunning macro image of a human eye. Yes, an eye. It’s part of a series by Suren Manvelyan called “Your Beautiful Eyes”. Some eyes are electric, others are blooming and a few are haunting. All are amazing.


Geek Out

The Burj Khalifa Looked Like The Tallest Christmas Tree In The World On New Years

That’s the Burj Khalifa. For New Years, Dubai had fireworks explode all around the building which sorta made it look like a super electric and ridiculously tall Christmas tree. Other New Year’s celebrations around the world looked just as awesome.


December 19, 2010
Science

The Moon As You’ve Never Seen It Before

This “illumination map” was constructed using over 1700 photographs of the same area of the moon’s south pole taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) over a six month period.


December 1, 2010
Cameras

How You Can Make Time Lapse Videos With Your DSLR

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7127489&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":275,"ratio":0.55,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"vimeo","wrap":true,"agegate":false} ); Philip Bloom is a time lapse photography wizard. Here he shows you how to make a simple, zoomy time lapse video with photos from your DSLR. Now you just need a plane ticket to Dubai or Prague or something. [Photoxels]


November 7, 2010
Cameras

Holding An Exploded Water Balloon

Edward Horsford has taken a series of high-speed pictures that captures a water balloon…without the balloon. The shots are snapped at the point of explosion, when the balloon skin breaks open. It looks like he’s somehow holding a ball of water.


October 24, 2010
Science

A Microscopic Snapshot Of Cancer Cells Multiplying

This is a picture of two cancer cells splitting and dividing to become four cancer cells. Even though it looks stunning, I hate it. To think that those little clouds and wisps have so much power is just terrifying.


October 1, 2010
Online

Facebook’s Rolling Out High-Resolution Photo Sharing

As a big fan of photo-sharing site Flickr, one of the most frustrating things about the popularity of photo sharing on social-networking site Facebook has always been the relatively terrible quality of Facebook’s highly compressed photos. Starting today, that’s changing.


May 2, 2010

Inkjet Facade Printer: Paintballs Are World’s Coolest Toner

There’s always a guerrilla undercurrent with graffiti, but the Facade Printer, which tattoos images onto buildings with paintballs, really makes that explicit. And judging by its work, I’d say it has pretty good aim.


January 3, 2010
Gadgets

Zap Some Neon Life Into Your Old Photographs

This is not a machine I’d recommend using in the darkroom. The Krilian Photography Device uses high voltage discharges to capture beautiful, luminescent images directly from ordinary film.


July 28, 2009
Mobile

How To Send Full Resolution Photos From Your iPhone

If you email photos from your iPhone using the standard “share” button, it shrinkifies them to a squee 800×600. But if you copy and paste them into the email app, you’ll get the full delicious resolution. [Geek Stuff via Lifehacker]