Photographers are sometimes ideal subjects for your photography especially those who adopt all kinds of positions in the search for that perfect composition. They bend, kneel, squat, climb monuments and even lie down flat on the ground.
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Thumbs up! usually means good work, right on, you got it right, and is generally a sign of approval. But not in Greece, Latin America, Middle East, Russia, Sardinia and Western Africa, where it’s a rude hand gesture.
UTexas @ Austin alumni better not use the “Hook ‘em Horns” gesture in Greece, Latin America, Middle East, Russia, Sardinia and in some parts of Western Africa where it sends a definitively offensive signal.
These and many other hand signals can be a minefield for photographers who travel the world or even use models who have immigrated from other countries. And, if you travel to other countries and see hand gestures that appear offensive to you, before you react in anger, bear in mind that maybe they’re not in that particular country.
Playful horsing around -- or subliminally rude hand gestures?
See what commonly used hand gestures in North America mean in other countries (and what these two above may be really saying to one another): theAtlantic.
The Canon zoom lens must have been dropped from a dirigible, small airplane or helicopter from a high altitude, high enough for the lens to fall at terminal velocity (200+ mph) and made a 6-in. hole in a Califirnia woman’s hanging roof. Thankfully (for the woman, the photographer and, I guess, for Canon), the lens did not hit anyone on the ground.
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Source: SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration
There must be some credence to Men in Black’s suggestion that most of the wildly successful people in our midst are actually aliens in disguise. How else can you explain that George Lucas of Star Wars movie fame knew that there could be such a thing as a planet that revolves around two suns, like Tatooine does? This is even more interesting because when Tatooine was depicted in Stars Wars, many scientists doubted that such planets could really exist. Lucas knew something they didn’t, eh?
CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This planet, dubbed Kepler-16(AB)-b, is about 3/4 of the distance between the Earth and our sun, is Saturn-sized, and travels on a nearly circular 229-day orbit around its two parent stars, Kepler-16A and Kepler-16B. The suns themselves orbit close to each other, completing an orbit around each other every 41 days.
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We’re not talking here about going to the front lines and photographing in dangerous life-threatening situations. Those who go there know what they are getting into. But what about taking pictures of (or filming) a round of golf? Or, at a football match or a baseball match? Surely, you don’t don flak jacket, bulletproof vest and crash helmet, do you? Maybe you should. As this video shows, dangers lurk in events that are otherwise pretty run of the mill ordinary.
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How cool is that? NASA launching twin moon probes to measure lunar gravity in more exacting detail, the better to figure out what exactly is beneath the lunar surface, all the way to the core. The orbiting probes also will help pinpoint the best landing sites for future explorers, whether human or mechanical. But the really cool thing is the videocam aboard each probe: middle school students around the world will get to operate and view the MoonKAM (Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students).
Each spacecraft holds one science instrument — for sending and receiving radio signals between the two — as well as a digital video camera system, MoonKAM, intended for use by middle school students worldwide. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, and her science education company in San Diego is leading the photo-gathering effort. It’s billed as “eyes on the moon for Earth’s students.”
Get more information about the GRAIL MoonKAM.
Teachers can register their students to use the GRAIL MoonKAM here.
There is even a GRAIL MoonKAM on Facebook and Grail MoonKAM on Twitter.
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Light painting can be whimsical and fun, but also serious art. If Pablo Picasso could do it, then so can you. All you need is a camera capable of long exposures, anything in the range of a few seconds [and no, you don't need a DSLR], say 1 to 30 seconds and a flashlight or colored LED light. The principle is simple: you open the camera’s shutter in the dark and use a small penlight to create a series of swirls and lines in the air. Because it’s dark, there is not enough light for the camera to record you walking around, but light from the penlight will always be recorded.
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA
This is an old image of Saturn taken by Cassini back in 2006, but it can still amazes us today. When the robotic spacecraft drifted in Saturn’s shadow facing the eclipsed Sun, new rings were discovered.
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Evan Goherty, 8, becomes the youngest skateboarder to land a 720-degree rotation, i.e. two full rotations. Evan now has a 540, a McTwist, and a 720 under his young feet! Congrats, “big E!” Champion in the making.
