Wednesday, July 6, 2005

If you linked to or bookmarked VRlog, thanks! However, if you linked to VRlog but used the URL http://radio.weblogs.com/0110138/, I'd appreciate it if you could change that URL to http://www.VRlog.com/, which is the canonical path for the site. The other address will stop being updated sometime from 4 months to a year from now. erik 7:40:49 AM

Water - A World Wide Panorama The World Wide Panorama site grows every three months with a new event, a coordinated worldwide photo shoot with a theme. For this event, shooting on the week of the Solstice (longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, first day of summer), the theme was simply "water", and 260 participants contributed images from 46 countries. The range of subject matter is fascinating - waterfalls, fountains, springs, rivers, lakes, dams, canals, waterworks, aquariums, boats, bathrooms, and swimming pools. A few of the highlights: Victor Zaveduk takes us inside the Crown Fountain in Chicago; Wil Brugman is in a car wash in the Netherlands; Bostjan Burger shows us an underground river in Slovenia; Bernhard Vogl has a cave filled with ice in Austria; Sachio Izumi captured fireflies over a river in Japan; Inaki Rezola is in a walk-through aquarium in Spain; Michael Stoss is on a traditional wooden ship in Germany; Bryant Arnett has kids in a swimming pool in California; Gerardo Sanchez invites us for lunch in Venezuela; Rolf Ris shows us the great Rhine Falls in Switzerland; Andrey Ilyin had a rainy day in Moscow; and Simon Maguire has trouble at a water fountain in Australia. The World Wide Panorama is hosted by the Geo-Images Project, at the University of California Berkeley. For more information contact Don Bain (dbain@berkeley.edu), or Landis Bennett (landis@360Geographics.com). 7:32:48 AM

Dodging and Burning in the Digital Darkroom: "Dodging and burning are among the oldest and most time honored techniques in the traditional darkroom. By selectively blocking or focusing the light while printing the negative, the operator could compensate for the limited range both of film and the printing medium, toning down highlights and opening up blocked-up shadows. While the way we dodge and burn has changed in the digital darkroom, the techniques remain as helpful as ever...." (Via Earthbound Light Photography Tips.) 7:14:40 AM

Nikon D50 review + vacation: "I have posted my review of the Nikon D50, an entry-level digital SLR that turned out to be a good value for the money." (Via DCResource.com.) 7:12:28 AM

Apologies for not posting much recently... I've been working very hard on a number of projects, practically living inside Adobe Illustrator, that I've had little time to add to VRLog. I do anticipate posting some things people sent me over the last month or so. 7:09:34 AM

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