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The Ingenious Flipper Bridge

The Ingenious Flipper Bridge

How do you provide a seamless transition from left-side of the road driving to right-side of the road driving? The Flipper Bridge designers (the Dutch firm NL Architects) solved this problem and it seems so natural, so...

Bavaria Babes Ad Stunt At Soccer World Cup

Bavaria Babes Ad Stunt At Soccer World Cup

This is how the Bavaria Babes pulled their stunt during the Netherlands-Denmark game on Monday. It is viral marketing at its best by the Dutch beer company Bavaria even though a couple of the organizers got arrested...

Reflections of Paris Photo Gallery

Reflections of Paris Photo Gallery

If you want a good example of why including a foreground element in your landscape pictures is important, see this photo gallery of Paris shot by Pierre Petit (1886-1969), aka Yvon, “the best-known unknown...

A New Kind of Lens Technology Sees Through Walls

A New Kind of Lens Technology Sees Through Walls

We all know that light goes through transparent materials, like the glass lens of a digital camera, but what we may not be aware of is that light also goes through some materials that seem opaque to our eyes. Some...

What Not To Wear On Your Photo Safari Trip

What Not To Wear On Your Photo Safari Trip

photo credit: The Grumbler Planning a safari trip to photograph wild animals in their natural habitat? If these include big cats like cheetahs, jaguars, etc., you do not want to wear this cologne: Calvin Klein’s...

Lost Camera Survives Ocean Trip

Lost Camera Survives Ocean Trip

Another “lost” camera story makes the headline. This time it’s a hungry sea turtle, so goes the story, that snapped a bite out of the floating camera and got its flipper caught in the camera’s...

Recycling Old Photography Magazines

Bought an iPad? Have no use for all your many years’ worth of photography magazines? Take inspiration from Sean Miller and his Sustainable Magazine Shelving. While Sean used National Geographic magazines to build...