City photographer creates magazine to showcase photos that “make your heart happy”

"Cardiff photographer Sarah Hill has been a member of the photo-sharing social network Flickr since its launch in 2004. She has uploaded more than 2,000 of her own photos, but has also “favourited” more than 3,400 pictures taken by other people. After feeling frustrated that she couldn’t share the shots that she loved, she launched her own photography magazine – Télégramme – funding, designing, and putting together the high quality publication herself. Here she talks about being a photographic geek, and producing a magazine simply to create something beautiful."

http://yourcardiff.walesonline.co.uk/2012/07/17/creative-cardiff-city-photographer-creates-magazine-to-showcase-photos-that-make-your-heart-happy/

http://hellotelegramme.co.uk/

Cardiff from above

View of Cardiff showing Roath Park and Cardiff Cemetery

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/wpw052628?search=cardiff%2520&ref=1

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/asearch?name=Cardiff&gazetteer=Cardiff&UNITARY_AUTHORITY=Cardiff

What Britain used to look like from the air

"From sprawling factory complexes to newly built suburban streets - by way of some of the UK's top sporting venues and seaside resorts. More than 10,000 images from one of the earliest collections of aerial photography are being made freely available on the web. "

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18542080

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/

Wales from above

"More than 10,000 images from one of the earliest collections of aerial photography are being made freely available on the web, including many from Wales"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18576988

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/

Ffotogallery

"Ffotogallery is the national development agency for photography and lens-based media in Wales. Our view is outward looking, with an exhibition programme featuring artists from Wales and the rest of the world. Ffotogallery seeks to widen its impact and influence through touring exhibitions, collaborations with other organisations and galleries, print and online publishing and an extensive education and outreach programme."

http://www.ffotogallery.org/

A Day - May 15th 2012

"On this one single day we ask you to pick up your camera and help us photograph daily life. What is close to you? What matters to you? We will connect your images to images from all around the world, creating a unique online experience where photographs will be shared, compared and explored. Your view on life will be preserved to inspire generations to come. "

http://www.aday.org

London now

"London-now is a highly addictive real-time visualization tool displaying all the photos as they happen within London on Instagram."

http://london-now.jit.su/

Other cities: http://now.jit.su/

Nine Eyes

The Nine Eyes of Google Street View

http://9-eyes.com/

Blipfoto Maps Launch - Now we can all map the world, one day at a time

"We think that since Blipfoto is all about connecting a photo and a story to a particular point in time, the logical next step is to connect these pictures and stories to the places they happened too."

http://www.blipfoto.com/blog/2012/06/13/blipfoto-maps-launch-now-we-can-all-map-the-world-one-day-at-a-time

http://www.blipfoto.com/browse/map#v=worldwide

Old photographs of Cardiff

"Cardiff is the capital city of Wales. Cardiff was built up around the coal industry of the 19th century. Today it is a vibrant city, a friendly city, a cultural city, and a propsperous city, and at the heart of the city is Cardiff Castle."

http://www.oldukphotos.com/glamorgan_cardiff.htm

More photography banned

"Utah, the American state founded by Mormons, is banning the photography of farms and farm animals."

http://blog.fotolibra.com/?p=752

"Well, as far as I can ascertain, farmers in Utah are fed up with rogue photographers snapping images of their appalling, brutal, barbarous, inhumane and mediaeval practices. Of course, I could be wrong, but that’s the way it looks from this Atlantic shore. By depriving humans of their rights, the Utah legislature is allowing unscrupulous people to go about depriving animals of their rights"

The First Portrait Photograph Ever Made

On a sunny day in October, Robert Cornelius set up his camera in the back of his father’s gas lamp-importing business on Chestnut Street in Center City, Philadelphia. After removing the lens cap, he sprinted into the frame, where he sat for more than a minute before covering up the lens. The picture he produced that day was the first photographic self-portrait. It is also widely considered the first successful photographic portrait of a human being.
[...] the words written on the back of the self-portrait, in Cornelius’ own hand, said it all: “The first light Picture ever taken. 1839.”

http://www.petapixel.com/2011/07/19/the-first-self-portrait-photo-ever-made/

Advice for amateur photographers from 1905

Brownie Model B from 1905-09.

Picture by Bill Strong.

“We know that it is difficult to believe, that under favourable conditions, an excellent photograph may be “taken” in a fraction of a second. It is the truth all the same!”.

http://amydavies.com/2011/10/04/advice-for-amateur-photographers-from-1905/

The “Surrealistic Pillow” Project

Photography By Ronen Goldman

http://www.ronengoldman.com/?p=975

Script that prepares photos for Facebook

"Copying images to your computer, or rotating them, may ruin the files’ time (of last modification). If your album contains images from several cameras, the file names can’t be used to sort the images either. The following command renames the files to the second they were taken"

http://drop.by/preparing-photos-for-facebook

"This is a follow-up of an earlier post. The topic remains the same; merging photo albums from different cameras while preserving chronological order, and removing potentially private metadata.

Like many others, I have noticed that Facebook increased its photo size from 604 to 720 pixels. At the same time, I noticed that the commands in my last post weren’t perfect. I have tried to write an improved script"

http://drop.by/photo-script

What's stopping you? - By geezaweezer

A wonderful photograph.

See it in all its glory here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/geezaweezer/4538715199/

Shape Collage

"Shape Collage was started by Vincent Cheung in 2007 because he had thousands of photos and didn't know what to do with them. He thought about making a photo collage with his photos, but didn't like the existing collage making programs. They required too much work to make a collage, they didn't look nice, and they didn't give you enough control. He begin tinkering around and invented a new algorithm for automatically arranging photos in a collage. Vincent then realized that his algorithm wasn't restricted to just boring rectangular collages like everyone else, and so, Shape Collage was born!"

http://www.shapecollage.com/

Photography project documents passers by to reignite community spirit

"When I moved to Cardiff, I was at first confused by the friendliness and warmth of the people here. I got used to it and now embrace it, but there are also pockets of what I experienced back in Reading, and I can't help but be a little fearful that the urge for growth and prosperity that Cardiff is experiencing through its modernisation of recent years may take it down a rocky road of isolating and alienating the residents that have lived here for years."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cardiff/2010/nov/02/photography-project-tom-ashmore-cardiff-people


http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashmore/sets/72157625141165081/


http://tomashmore.net/

Dear Photograph

"take a picture of a picture from the past in the present"


http://dearphotograph.com/

Lightables.net creates Flickr photo grids

"Not only does it look great, it's also super simplistic to use, in order to see more photos you simply drag the screen around to pan through everything in the same way you would with an iPhone or other touchscreen device."

http://www.popgadget.net/2011/03/lightablesnet_c.php


http://lightables.net/#tridral

http://lightables.net/#aro-books-worldwide