Boston magazine’s heart-shaped shoes honor city, victims (Photo: Boston magazine) On the cover of its May edition, Boston magazine pays tribute to its city with a moving and stunningly simple photograph. The image features 120 running shoes, all worn in the Boston Marathon, shaped in a heart around the headline: “We Will Finish the Race.” Read the complete story.
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Boston magazine’s heart-shaped shoes honor city, victims

(Photo: Boston magazine)

On the cover of its May edition, Boston magazine pays tribute to its city with a moving and stunningly simple photograph. The image features 120 running shoes, all worn in the Boston Marathon, shaped in a heart around the headline: “We Will Finish the Race.”

Read the complete story.

Source: nbcnews.to

Then and now: Rephotography shows Iraqi sites 10 years after Saddam (Photo: Maya Alleruzzo / AP) This Wednesday, March 13, 2013, photo shows a general view of Firdous Square at the site of an Associated Press photograph taken by Jerome Delay as the statue of Saddam Hussein was pulled down by U.S. forces and Iraqis on April 9, 2003. Ten years ago on live television, U.S. Marines memorably hauled down a Soviet-style statue of Saddam, symbolically ending his rule. Today, that pedestal in central Baghdad stands empty. Bent iron beams sprout from the top, and posters of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in military fatigues are pasted on the sides. See more photos.
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Then and now: Rephotography shows Iraqi sites 10 years after Saddam

(Photo: Maya Alleruzzo / AP)

This Wednesday, March 13, 2013, photo shows a general view of Firdous Square at the site of an Associated Press photograph taken by Jerome Delay as the statue of Saddam Hussein was pulled down by U.S. forces and Iraqis on April 9, 2003. Ten years ago on live television, U.S. Marines memorably hauled down a Soviet-style statue of Saddam, symbolically ending his rule. Today, that pedestal in central Baghdad stands empty. Bent iron beams sprout from the top, and posters of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in military fatigues are pasted on the sides.

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Creepy critters and cool close-ups: Nikon’s micro-photo contest has it all (Photo: J. Peters / M. Taylor / St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) Top honors in the 2012 Nikon Small World contest go to this confocal 20x view of the blood-brain barrier in a zebrafish embryo. The picture was captured by Jennifer Peters and Michael Taylor of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., and it’s thought to be the first image showing formation of the blood-brain barrier in a live animal. Read the complete story.
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Creepy critters and cool close-ups: Nikon’s micro-photo contest has it all

(Photo: J. Peters / M. Taylor / St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital)

Top honors in the 2012 Nikon Small World contest go to this confocal 20x view of the blood-brain barrier in a zebrafish embryo. The picture was captured by Jennifer Peters and Michael Taylor of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., and it’s thought to be the first image showing formation of the blood-brain barrier in a live animal.

Read the complete story.

Source: cosmiclog.nbcnews.com

Heavenly halo lights up the Arctic (Photo: Ed Stockard) Is this heaven? No, it’s Greenland — lit up by a dazzling display of refracted sunlight. These pictures are from Ed Stockard, who’s part of the team at Summit Station on the peak of the Greenland ice cap. The research facility, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, serves as an observation post for the complex interactions between the atmosphere and one of the world’s biggest reservoirs of ice. Read the complete story.
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Heavenly halo lights up the Arctic

(Photo: Ed Stockard)

Is this heaven? No, it’s Greenland — lit up by a dazzling display of refracted sunlight.

These pictures are from Ed Stockard, who’s part of the team at Summit Station on the peak of the Greenland ice cap. The research facility, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, serves as an observation post for the complex interactions between the atmosphere and one of the world’s biggest reservoirs of ice.

Read the complete story.

Source: photoblog.nbcnews.com

Tree stalker: Photographing a year in the life of a tree (Photos: Mark Hirsch) “I drove by that tree for 19 years and never took a single frame of it,” photographer Mark Hirsch told NBC News.  The tree, a massive oak, is on his way home, along a country road in southwest Wisconsin. But one day when a friend challenged Hirsch to try out the camera on his new iPhone 4S, he stopped his truck and trudged 500 yards through the snow to make his first picture of the tree (left frame, above). Surprised by the image quality - despite being used to professional gear – he showed the pictures to another friend who told him it could be a cool project if he did more. Read the complete story.
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Tree stalker: Photographing a year in the life of a tree

(Photos: Mark Hirsch)

“I drove by that tree for 19 years and never took a single frame of it,” photographer Mark Hirsch told NBC News.  The tree, a massive oak, is on his way home, along a country road in southwest Wisconsin.

But one day when a friend challenged Hirsch to try out the camera on his new iPhone 4S, he stopped his truck and trudged 500 yards through the snow to make his first picture of the tree (left frame, above). Surprised by the image quality - despite being used to professional gear – he showed the pictures to another friend who told him it could be a cool project if he did more.

Source: photoblog.nbcnews.com

Camera-equipped ‘high dynamic range’ helmet gives you superhuman vision (Photo: EyeTap) If you think of high dynamic range imaging, or HDR, you probably think of crazy panoramic cityscapes or lighthouses where everything pops with impossible clarity — imagine seeing the whole world that way. These goggles let you look at everything in real-time 3-D HDR — and it’s more useful than you might think. Read the complete story.
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Camera-equipped ‘high dynamic range’ helmet gives you superhuman vision

(Photo: EyeTap)

If you think of high dynamic range imaging, or HDR, you probably think of crazy panoramic cityscapes or lighthouses where everything pops with impossible clarity — imagine seeing the whole world that way. These goggles let you look at everything in real-time 3-D HDR — and it’s more useful than you might think.

Source: nbcnews.com

Google patent lets you zoom in from your photo to theirs (Photo: Google / USPTO) A Google patent has just been granted that allows for “zooming using pre-existing imaging” — in other words, zooming in from your photo to another one. For instance, you could go from your snapshot of the Mona Lisa directly to a high-res scan from the Louvre. Read the complete story.
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Google patent lets you zoom in from your photo to theirs

(Photo: Google / USPTO)

A Google patent has just been granted that allows for “zooming using pre-existing imaging” — in other words, zooming in from your photo to another one. For instance, you could go from your snapshot of the Mona Lisa directly to a high-res scan from the Louvre.

Source: nbcnews.com

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