How Children Learn: Portraits Of Classrooms Around The World

Since 2004, Julian Germain has been capturing the inner lives of schools around the world, from England to Nigeria to Qatar, in his large-scale photographs of schoolchildren in class.

Classroom Portraits is a poignant lens on a system-phenomenon that is both global in reach and strikingly local in degree of peculiarity, revealed through more than 450 portraits of schoolchildren from 20 countries.

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Long Exposure Photography Tips

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A useful technique in night photography is the long exposure. The effects that can be captured with a long exposure are stunning and have an ethereal quality. The most important tool that you will need is a sturdy tripod, and a DSLR camera that allows for long exposures.

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Five Tips To Improve Your Photography

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The top 5 things that will help you most to develop as a photographer.

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This Is Now

The This is Now project is a visual composition which uses real-time updates from the ever popular Instagram application based on users geo-tag locations. The tool streams photos instantly as soon as they are uploaded on Instagram and captures a city's movement, in a fluid story.

This Is Now was created by Brazilian Marcio Puga who currently lives in Sydney, Australia. Currently you can see This Is Now from New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Sao Paulo, London, Stockholm, Paris, Tokyo, and Sydney.

(thanks Cora)

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Mars Panorama

Last month NASA released some of the most beautiful photos of Mars the world has ever seen. Panoramas.dk, a site created by Danish commercial photographer Hans Nyberg, assembled 817 images into a panorama. The images were taken between December 21, 2011, and May 8, 2012, while Opportunity was stationed on an outcrop informally named 'Greeley Haven'. on a segment of the rim of ancient Endeavour Crater.

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Portrait Retouching Tips And Techniques

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There is a fine line between a subtly enhanced photograph and one that has been over 'Photoshopped.' Fact of the matter is, we are always trying to find ways in which we can improve our photography and sometimes those ways might include retouching an image. This is especially true when it comes to beauty and fashion spreads.

Professional photo retoucher, Pratik Naik shares some of his best tips on how to enhance your photographs, all the while maintaining the spirit of the original image.

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24 Vintage Photographs Of Abe Lincoln Being Awesome

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Abraham Lincoln's personal secretary John Nicolay believed that no photograph could capture Honest Abe's essence: 'There are many pictures of Lincoln,' he said, 'but there is no portrait of him.' Over 130 photographs of Lincoln exist - here are a few you may not have come across before.

(via Neatorama)

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Extreme Daguerrotype Hair Styles 1850s - 1870s

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From the George Eastman House Collection. Some examples from a collection of 3,500 daguerreotypes, a photographic process where the image is a direct positive made in the camera on a silvered copper plate.

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How To Shoot Liquid Flow Photographs

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Corrie White is an Ontario, Canada-based photographer who specializes in water drop photography. In this tutorial she will share how she makes 'liquid flow' photos - smoke-like abstracts done by dropping cream colored with food dye into a small tank of water, then rotated 180 degrees.

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Lost Britain From Above

Thousands of historic aerial photographs - which were almost lost forever - go online for the first time. Striking and evocative, they chart a dramatic period of British history - from the end of World War One to the year of the Queen's Coronation.

But these treasured photographs of famous landmarks such as St Paul's Cathedral and Blackpool Tower could have been lost forever, were it not for a major conservation project which has made them freely available on the internet for the first time.

More than 15,000 pictures - many so old and fragile that they were close to becoming beyond repair - have been uploaded on to the Britain from Above website, which is launched today.

(thanks Cora)

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Young Indian Royal Portraits, 1862 - 1930

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On the eve of independence in 1947, India contained more than 600 princely states, each with its own ruler, often styled Raja or Thakur (if the ruler were Hindu) or Nawab (if he were Muslim), with a host of less current titles as well. Here are some portraits of young Indian royalty.

(via Everlasting Blort)

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26 Gorgeous Tulip Pictures

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Although tulips are often associated with the Netherlands, commercial cultivation of the flower began in the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey). The tulip is a flower that many people love. Whether you grow a few in your garden or visit places where you'll find thousands of these gorgeous flowers, the tulip is a great subject for gorgeous pictures.

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Swimsuit Girls Of Old Japan

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A set of photos of geisha and maiko (apprentice geisha) posing as bathing beauties during the Meiji and Taisho eras (1868 - 1926) of old Japan.

(via Everlasting Blort)

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London In 20 Gigapixels

A 20 gigapixels photo of central London.

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Criminals Of 1871-1873

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A Flickr set of photos from the Newcastle City Gaol and House of Correction collection. Particulars of criminals convicted of a crime specified in section 20 of the Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871 and reported to the Secretary of State as being imprisoned in Newcastle Gaol. All the prisoners photographed spent time in Newcastle Gaol between December 1871 - December 1873.

(via Everlasting Blort)

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Greenland's Beautiful Icy Landscapes

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After his breathtaking, prize-winning photographs of the coast of Greenland in 'Broken Line', photographer Olaf Otto Becker turns his attention to the interior of the island in his new series, 'Above Zero'.

Second only to Antarctica, Greenland has the largest inland ice surfaces in the world. Becker's spectacular portraits of this region are taken during physically strenuous, sometimes life-threatening treks among glacial crevasses and melting ice floes, with a cumbersome large-format camera.

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Coffee Places Where You Can Think

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Coffee places where you can think by Israeli economist Ariel Rubinstein.

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RetroWebMatic

Vintage photo apps have shown us all that the crystal clear images that ubiquitous modern technology allows us to capture can be greatly enhanced by making them look like they've been taken by an old, cheap camera. RetroWebMatic brings vintage photo effects to the web and fills an obvious gap in the market.

Type in a website address to see how the site looks as if it was a photo taken by a vintage camera. You can use 5 different effects: toasted, lo-brow, tool shed, parchment and vinaigrette. Here's what The Presurfer would look like.

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The Circus Comes To Town

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Old photos from the Boston Public Library about travelling circusses, rodeos and fairs coming to town.

(via Everlasting Blort)

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Shooting Abstracts With A Digital Camera

Tony Karp has been working with projects involving art and technology for over fifty years. He believes that all art requires technology, and vice versa. Tony calls this blending 'Techno-Impresssionism.' He's also the creator of the Techno-Impressionist Museum.
Here are some pictures of abstracts shot with a digital camera.

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