Getty Images opening up much of its photo stock for free use

Internet users will be able to tweet, blog, or otherwise post photos with Getty’s embed feature that attaches a credit and link to each image. Anyone can now visit the Getty website, grab some embed code, and display an image on blogs (As I have done here.) without paying a licensing fee. The code is the same iFrame code that you use to embed YouTube videos, maps, photos, and tweets.

The image below shows the embed link to use when looking at a photo you wish to use.

Below is the photo embeded into this blog post using the iFrame code.

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Tilt Shift Van Gogh

Serena Malyon took several of Van Gogh’s paintings and edited them using photoshop to create a tilt shift effect. If you dont know what tilt shift is, its a kind of photography that uses a short range of focus to create photographs that look minature.

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My Food Looks Funny

If your food ever looks funny, take a picture and send it to this website.

Funny Foods

San Francisco Film - 1906

A film taken from a streetcar traveling down Market Street in San Francisco in 1906, a few days before the earthquake/fire destroyed the area.

This film, originally thought to be from 1905 until David Kiehn with the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum figured out exactly when it was shot. From New York trade papers announcing the film showing to the wet streets from recent heavy rainfall & shadows indicating time of year & actual weather and conditions on historical record, even when the cars were registered (he even knows who owned them and when the plates were issued!).. It was filmed only four days before the quake and shipped by train to NY for processing. Amazing but true! Music: "La Femme D'Argent " from the "Moon Safari" album by Air


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10 Ways to Look Good in Photos

How to put your best face forward and pose like a model.

By Karen Lee, former model handler at the Elite modeling agency and head of the Karen Lee Group.

From Reader's Digest

1. Focus your eyes just slightly above the camera lens, move your face forward a bit, and tip down your chin.

2. Put your tongue behind your teeth and smile, which will relax your face.

3. Keep your arms by your side—but not glued there. To look natural, they should be a little away from your body.

4. Test-drive clothing against a white wall, with an indirect, natural light source (under a tree, indoors near a window)—it will show whether blue really is your best color.

5. As a rule, avoid patterns.

6. Photos exaggerate everything, so go easy on the makeup. For women under 30, a little mascara and lip gloss; over 30, add a touch of concealer.

7. Practice the classic model pose: Turn your body three quarters of the way toward the camera, with one foot in front of the other and one shoulder closer to the photographer. When you face forward, your body tends to look wider.

8. For standing photos, belly in, buttocks tight, shoulders back, spine straight.

9. Study photogenic people as well as photos in which you think you looked best. Look at your best angle. You’ll probably see that you were laughing or having a good time. Capturing someone when they’re relaxed or most animated usually makes for the best results.

10. To feel at ease, try closing your eyes, then opening them slowly just before the photo is taken.

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Shadow Art Created From Junk

"British-born and -based artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster skilfully skirt the boundaries between beauty and the shadowier aspects of humanity, playing with our perceptions as well as our notions of taste. Many of their most notable pieces are made from piles of rubbish, with light projected against them to create a shadow image entirely different to that seen when looking directly at the deliberately disguised pile."

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The Visual Dictionary

"The Visual Dictionary is a collection of words in the real world. Photographs of signage, graffiti, advertising, tattoos, you name it, we're trying to catalogue it. We started the project in February 2006, and have since racked up over 5000 images of over 3000 words - thanks to everyone who has contributed to date. We're of course, still accepting entries, as the Dictionary should just continue growing forever, but we're starting to think about ways of navigating and browsing images now."

Look something up at: The Visual Dictionary - a visual exploration of words in the real world.

Parking Spots

Big Car, Small Car it's all a matter of perspective. At this site you can compare model cars with real ones using a technique called forced perspective to make them look the same size. Then take pictures. Amazingly, there are photos of these model cars from around the world.

Take a look at tiny vehicles next to big ones at: Parking Spots

Photographing Turnstiles

"I developed a situation so that various subjects could be defined by the constraints of exactly the same mechanical apparatus. The scenario consisted of someone passing through a subway turnstile. At the moment that the subjects passed through the turnstile, unknown to them, I took their picture stationed at a distance of eleven feet. I stood there turning pages of a magazine observing subjects out of the corner of my eye, waiting for only the moment when they pushed the turnstile bar to release the shutter."

Visit: MTmaster

Normal Room

"Welcome to Normal Room - home for global homes
See how people live around the world! Explore the variety of lifestyles and cultural peculiarities!

Normal Room shows you interior design and home furniture from all around the globe. Search our image database and explore the differences and similarities in architecture and home decoration between people in different countries.

Join our community and upload your own photos for everyone to see!

Use our forum to discuss everything related to your homes - from mortgages to home improvement and from humidity problems to holiday decorations."


Visit us at: Normal Room - Home

Crayon Sculptures

Diem Chau has created some beautiful art with these crayon sculptures.

Crayon Sculptures - Storytelling

The Human Clock

"Humanclock.com shows a photograph of the current time, with the photo changing every minute of the day (all 1,440 occurring minutes on Earth!) Thus you end up with a rotating picture clock sorta deal.

How the time is actually displayed is a whole different matter. A lot of photos have the time written on a crummy cardboard sign, while other photos might have the current time in a more edible format, such as olives. There are photos below sea level and ones over two miles above sea level. There are even clock pictures with people who played at Woodstock.

Many people viewing this website end up sending in their own clock pictures, be they in an airplane, installing brakes, or on a playground in Missouri. There are clock pictures from all over the world ranging from Outback Australia to Canada to Pakistan to Antarctica to Italy to Brazil. Other people travel around the American Southwest and end up taking a clock photo on a corner in Winslow, Arizona. There are even enough clock photos now to have pictures from Phoenix Arizona, Tacoma, Philadelphia, Atlanta, LA, and Northern California."

What time is it? Check at: The Human Clock - A Clock Photo for Every Minute of the Day

Window Standpoint Series

"Some artists, all over the globe were asked to share their personal window. They made a few minutes field recording from their everyday soundscape. At one geographic point, at one moment, they catched the sound environment from their window and made a picture of it. The main idea is close to one of movement, ubiquity, immobile tourism.

How to share one's very own identity when confronted to other places? The window, just as the browser's window, becomes the access onto other dimensions (space, time, sound), and proposes as a new platform. At that very, fixed, moment, the frozen picture becomes one object of sharing."

30 Second Vacations

Mappr! Where It's At.

"Mappr is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take. By adding geographical information to the wealth of photographs found on Flickr, it allows new ways of looking at spaces and images. Mappr adds place to pictures.

Mappr takes advantage of the cornucopia of descriptive information provided by Flickr's users to organize their photos. Flickr's admirable policy of openness with its data provides a way to anticipate and envision a future where cheaply-available GPS technology generates this placement as a matter of course. There's no reason to wait for this technology to become common; by mapping the millions of photos that Flickr makes available, we can start looking at its broad scale potential now."

Mappr! Where It's At.

Cenoté

"East of the major Chichén Itzá ruins is a dark underground world the Mayans called Cenoté. They are deep water filled sinkholes formed by water percolating through the soft limestone above. Since the porous soil held little water, these underground bodies were extremely important to the city. A visit to one is a spine chilling experience. Entry is through a vertical hole with narrow stair steps carved by the Mayan's themselves. The air is thick and musty. One misstep on the slimy ledges threatens to send you falling over 20 feet."

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Odd jobs

Jobs to most mean 9-to-5 drudgery. But as professionals like the contorotionist and odor judge reveal, there's always and alternative to the pedestrian world of action items, cubicles and voicemail.

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A polaroid a day, everyday.

"Q: Come on, now, every day?
A: Yes. Well, ok, sure, once in a great while I get backed up and have to take two pictures in one day. I would say that happens once every two months or so, and I am perfectly happy with that level of accuracy.

Keep in mind that although I am taking pictures every day sometimes (weekends mostly) I don't actually get around to scanning them in and putting them up for a few days. I don't have a scanner at home right now and have to do that part when I have a few extra minutes at work.

Q: So, you take a bunch of pictures each day and post the best one, right?
A: Wrong wrong wrong. What you see is what I took, exactly. Maybe three or four times I have had catastrophic camera malfunctions resulting in all black or all white prints and had to re-shoot. There are PLENTY of pictures in here that I think really suck, and would love to've re-shot, but that is not how it works. Also, for what it is worth there is absolutely NO post-production or photoshopping on these.

Q: Formerly what?
A: Um. Well, 669 is the name of the Polaroid film that I used to use the most often."

Visit: a polaroid a day, everyday. dirtdirt.com; formerly 669.

Who is that with Jeremy?

"Where the Elite Meet the Petite.'

Welcome to my Web Site, pictures of me with well known people.

My name is Jeremy and I was born on March 30, 2002 and I live in New York City. When I was 3 months old, mommy went back to work and daddy became a stay-at-home dad.

My daddy thought that it would be fun to take pictures of me with well-known people, and it has been fun! We have met lots of interesting people, from actors to politicians, news personalities and talk show hosts. We have met Oscar winners, Grammy winners, a Senator, a Duchess, a former President and lots, lots more! All of these people have been very nice to me and my dad. I hope you like looking at these pictures as much as we liked taking them."

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Women and Dogs

"Hello and welcome to my little corner of the world wide web. This page isn't about me so much, it's more about my hobby. I collect second-hand photographs of women and dogs. That's right, both women and dogs together."

Women and Dogs

PhotoStamps

"PhotoStamps is a new form of postage that allows customers to include their favorite digital photographs, designs or images on valid US Postal Service postage. Customers design state-of-the-art, professional-looking postage from the PhotoStamps web site by simply uploading pictures from existing image files, digital photographs, and original graphics. An intuitive interface allows users of PhotoStamps to flip, rotate, and zoom in and out of their images, as well as add colored borders to create harmonized themes. Users maintain a secure online account that allows for the storage of images for future purchases. Using advanced printing technology, we send customers high-quality, peelable PhotoStamps within a short timeframe, allowing for a wide variety of personal and business-related usage."

PhotoStamps