I am not telling you any breaking news this time. I am posting this just to mark some special event that happened today. Unfortunately, I am not allowed to talk about it yet, but I hope one day it will change, the NDA will fall, and I will tell you all about it. Meanwhile, you can go watch cartoons, which are not as bad for you as some breaking news on TV…
Note to hazard: see, no links. :)
Kite Aerial Photography website covers an interesting topic of having a photocamera attached to some flying object, such as a kite or model airplane. Scott Haefner covers all corners from camera mounting and remote control to transmitters and suspension. There are also albums full of aerial pictures and links to other resources (articles and news).
Interestingly, kites and model airplanes can provide a cheaper alternative for those photographers who love “view from above”. If altitudes, distances, or vibration are not satisfactory for actual photography, this approach can be used for intelligence service. Real photosession will come cheaper, faster, and, what is more important, better prepared than.
Remember a website about lonely girl riding cool bike around Chernobyl’s Danger Zone? Well, it turns out that many people (read carefully for a link to an excellent panorama picture of Chernobyl) consider that girl’s stories to be pure lies. What do you think?
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Hazard has sent me the link to eMachineShop.com. It is a website where you can order customized parts. You can design whatever form you need cut, drilled, and bent, from which materials, of what size, etc, and these guys will make it according to your design and they will ship it to you in exchange for some money.
Examples of things other people ordered include: keychain tags for club members, cover for ocean buoy, parts for model helicopters and rockets and battery holder.
This can come really useful when you need something that no shop sells and you lack the experience, materials, and/or tools to produce.
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I am pretty often enjoying sites of professional photographers. These guys seem to do everything right – their pictures are perfect, light loves them, compositions are original, dynamic and interesting, and they forget much more information about equipment that they use than I ever knew in the first place. But all these is pretty much expected from professional photographers…
Now, when I stumble across a website of “some guy” who just bought a more-or-less simple camera and started learning and producing excellent photographs, I get really really impressed. One of the examples of such guys is at Kleptography.com. Some really nice photographs there. And if that was not enough, the guy is sharing his experience, what he did, what he got, what he thought, and what he is doing now. Very interesting. But if you are interesting only in pictures, he’s got a whole bunch of them. And on different topics – nature, street photography, architecture, portraits, etc.