photography

Link Removed due to 404 Error Mercury’s first photo from orbit has been snapped by NASA‘s Messenger spacecraft on March 29, 2011, Space.com reported. “This image is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the solar system’s innermost planet,” Messenger mission scientists...

What's this monkey business? It would appear an enormous baboon has gone on the rampage at a popular animal park, flattening cars with a single blow. The monkey pictured is in fact a normally proportioned baboon. It's just an optical illusion unwittingly created by photographer Chez Owen...

Looks like Yoda, it does. This curious little animal bears a startling resemblance to a certain Star Wars Jedi Master. The remarkable animal shares many similarities with the diminutive character from the legendary sci-fi film series. As he was trekking through the jungle in the...

Boozed-up British tourists have to watch where they walk in Alicante after a new patterned pavement has been laid causing nausea and confusion. The crazy design in the Spanish holiday resort causes the eye to think that the pavement is not flat but stepped. Set in rows of diamonds at...

Hi, I have a camera triggered with a remote that us connected to my PC via USB (I'm making a photobooth type thing). The photos import into a folder and are auto imported into lightroom and display a full screen preview. I have a custom screen savor set to appear after a few minutes of...

This normally graceful flamingo got in a flap when his normally finely-honed balance failed him in spectacular fashion. Usually known for their ability to stand on one leg without any trouble for hours at a time, this daft bird's balance totally escaped him as he took a tumble in a lake...

Britain's first so-called Roundabout Idol has been launched, with the aim of finding the Matt Cardle equivalent of the UK's favourite traffic island. Motorists are being invited to send in pictures of their best and most hated roundabouts in a bid to help car leasing service...

Maybe he’s really looking forward to life as a frog or perhaps he just likes posing for the camera – but this tadpole obviously has a reason to smile in a photo taken by photographer David Spears. The 1cm (0.4in) tadpole was captured with a ‘grin’ on his face after being placed under a...

You can find almost anything on the shelves at Walmart -- sometimes even obscene photographs of a 44-year-old man in drag. Police in Fremont, Ohio, say Rodney Kunkel stocked the shelves at Walmart with graphic photographs showing himself in black nylons, heels and pink lingerie with his...

Photographer Bob Garas has revealed his favourite subject to work with are frogs and he can spend hours waiting for them to strike the perfect pose in his studio. Garas often spends hours working with his subjects – his frogs – waiting for them to stretch for the perfect pose. ‘Every...

3-D television is creating a huge buzz in the consumer space, but the generation of 3-D content remains a largely professional endeavor. Our research demonstrates an easy-to-use system for creating photorealistic, 3-D-image-based models simply by walking around an object of interest with your...

It wasn't hoppy days for this tree frog when a hungry snake decided to hang out with it in the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin. The poor amphibian was happily hopping along when a hungry snake snatched it from above. And it was all downhill from the moment it left the ground as, following a...

What a Sweet Ride: The Chocolate Bar Smart Car Just in time for Valentine's Day, and a mere $28,000: This chocolate Smart Car has gone on sale at Japan's high-end Q-Pot gadget shop and will only be available until March 13.

Donna D'Errico to Climb Mount Ararat in Search of Noah's Ark Former "Baywatch" star Donna D'Errico has enjoyed a pretty amazing career arc. But the 42-year-old actress, who recently turned down a spot on "Dancing With the Stars," is now focusing on Noah's ark. D'Errico, 42, is in...

Can anyone tell me what an AVI.index file is, or how about a jpg.file. Every time I move a picture, video, or audio file from folder to folder these index files and jpg.files go too. If I upload 300 pictures to a folder it ends up with 600 files in it, one jpg.file for every pic, one AVI.index...

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Hey everyone, I'm new here and the thing that brought me here really sucks. I'm typing this right before I have to leave for school, so it's going to be short and sweet. Please ask any questions to fill in the holes. Here's the problem... I'm running Win 7 64-bit and I've been running a...

Just how many web-capable image formats does the world need? To most people, the well-known combination of JPEG, PNG and GIF will suffice for most needs and situations, but it seems that Google is far from satisfied with the current status quo. However, instead of proposing changes to the way...

As we wind our way down to PDC, it’s time that you meet more of the team behind the scenes as they’ll share with you each week some of their favorite things to see and do in the Seattle area. First up isLink Removed, who represents the Eastside (the term for the Eastern suburbs of Seattle that...